Re: Be the first on your block....

James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:23:16 -0800

At 09:40 PM 1/28/97 -0800, Kennita Watson wrote:
>I don't know if anyone else has thought about this, but....
>
>Now that WebTV is out, it's only a matter of time until it's built
>into TVs (I had thought in time for Christmas, but when I found out
>that Sony was making it, I revised my estimate to Father's Day).
>
>Right now these things require cable, but the satellite people have
>got to be working on it.

The satellite people ARE working on it.

Global internet access via satellite uplink will soon be available. It will
allow a person to setup high-speed internet links from anywhere on the globe
via a space-borne backbone.

I am not allowed to say much more about it at this time, but I am the person
responsible for writing the routing/switching/scheduling software that will
allow this happen. The system is dynamic, adaptable, and very slick. You
will be hearing more about this in the near future...

-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com