Joe Amor

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• Joe Amor
• Vice President and General Manager

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Microspace Communications Corporation

• Mission is to provide PROFESSIONAL SATELLITE
  BROADCAST SERVICES for video, data audio
  business applications.

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Microspace Overview ...

• Broadcast to 10 satellite transponders (four
  full-time and six partial transponders)
• 300,000 downlinks
• Top 3 background business music providers
• 12 of the top 15 financial data delivery firms
• Dozens of paging companies with over 9 million
  pagers
• Top weather information providers
• Business Video Networks
• Business Internet/Intranet Networks

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Satellite broadcasting service providing

• digital video
• digital audio
• high speed data point-to-multipoint, multicasting
  and push applications

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Internet Standardization Benefits

• Content Internet Protocol (IP)
• Physical Interface Ethernet
• Bigger Base of Clients

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Internet Standardization Benefits

• Platform Independence
• Operating System Independence
• Bigger Base of Clients

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Internet Standardization Benefits

• Lower Cost of Memory
• Lower Cost of Storage
• Bigger Base of Clients

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Internet Standardization Benefits

• Internet Protocol Broadcast Education

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Internet Standardization PROBLEM

• No financial methodology for ISPs to monitor or
  regulate multicasting traffic.

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Microspace Internet
Standardization Benefits

• 1993 80,000 downlinks 1999 300,000
  downlinks
• 1993 One transponder 1999 Four
  transponders
• Bigger Base of Clients!!!

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TV-PC Convergence Terminology

TV realm PC realm

• Broadcasting Multicasting
• Live Streaming
• Networks Portals
• Channels Sites
• Producers Content
  
  
  
  
  
  Providers

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TV-PC Convergence Terminology

TV realm PC realm

• Over-the-air On-the-net
• MPEG2 MPEG1 4
• Remote control Interactive
• NTSC/PAL IP/TV,
  
  
  
  
  MediaPlayer,
  
  
  
  
  RealPlayer
• Television Monitor
• Sound Audio

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Multicasting via HDTV

• DTV Plus, WRAL-HD Datacast WRAL Online First
  Daily Datacast of Nation's Number One Television
  Web Site
• Raleigh, NC --- January 19, 2000 --- DTV Plus has
  teamed with WRAL-HD and LG Electronics Research
  Center of America to develop and demonstrate
  digital data broadcasting applications using the
  digital television signal. The team is
  datacasting the WRAL Online web site
  (http//www.wral-tv.com/) on a daily basis.
  Datacasting -- inserting Internet data into the
  digital television signal -- is envisioned as a
  wave of the future and source of new revenue for
  broadcasters. DTV Plus is making this vision a
  reality by datacasting the WRAL Online web site
  continuously.

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Multicasting via HDTV Diagram

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Satellite Internet Multicasting Broadband

• Broadcast satellite services is a very viable
  communications medium to deliver video, data and
  audio applications, NOW!

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