Viacom, TCI fiber net plans advance. (Viacom Cable, Tele-Communications Inc.)
Multichannel News, November, 1992 by Kim, Gary
After more than a year of discussions, Bay Area cable operators, anchored by the efforts of Viacom Cable and Tele-Communications Inc., the leading operators in the region, are close to announcing plans for construction of a Bay Area optical fiber interconnect. "We'll be able to say something in about a month," said Del Heller, Viacom Cable's engineering vice president.
Viacom officials have intended all along to build a fiber interconnect linking the company's area systems, creating a "superheadend" that would feed signals out to each of the operating units. In part, the moves are driven by a desire to improve network reliability. The centralized headend, for example, would allow 24-hour staffing of the master headend. That, in turn, would allow...
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