Cisco Backs Aggressive 'Internet Home' Project.(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, August, 2000 by BAUMGARTNER, JEFF
If Cisco Systems Inc. has its druthers, broadband connectivity and home networking will become as ubiquitous as electricity, water and gas. Cisco, along with a host of technology companies, has teamed with California-based housing developer Playa Vista to build a large-scale broadband community in West Los Angeles that could raise the bar for the ideal "Internet lifestyle." A "broadband utopia" of sorts, the community will hold 13,000 smart homes of varying sizes and 6 million feet of commercial retail space -- all pre-strung with Category-5 wiring, digital-subscriber-line-based voice, video and data connections and a networking platform that shares bandwidth among Internet-enabled appliances such as PCs, TVs and even refrigerators.
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