National Institute of Standards Awards Video-overDSL Funding

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a three-year, $4 million grant to four companies to develop a system to provide video services over DSL. The team is made up of project leader Sarnoff Corporation, Alcatel, SBC Laboratories and Thomson. The four companies will collaborate on a video delivery mechanism that allows live or recorded program feeds to be sent to subscribers. The system will provide a wide selection of streams (or "channels") of commercial-quality video and audio content and distribute them in real time for decoding and viewing. Each subscriber will be able to view up to two separate programs on two different TV sets. Off-peak recording for later playback will also be possible.
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