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Article: Game consoles: is cable ready to play?(Product Announcement)
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- December 1, 2001
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The holidays are here, and so is a new breed of powerful gaming consoles equipped with high-speed ports. In addition to the conceivable cable modem marketing hooks, MSOs are preparing to face a variety of technical implications--namely provisioning and bandwidth management.
Video game consoles. They're neat. They're powerful. They're the "Tickle-Me-Elmo" of the 2001 holiday season. They may also represent yet another IP appliance that could be attached to a service operator's network, opening the door to a variety of plausible provisioning and bandwidth management issues.
So far, Sony Corp.'s Playstation 2, with its Ethernet port and millions of users, ...