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DIRECTV EYEING WIMAX FOR BROADBAND RETURN PATH CONTENT FROM SUBSCRIBERS

August 10, 2005

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DirecTV can use its network of satellites to send signals down to viewers.

But those same viewers need a phone line to send information back up- to and through the network. This is called "return path."

Phone lines are subject to interference, are a lot slower, and have trouble handling wide bandwidth applications such as video gaming or sending up of large file images such as photos or videos.

Now, DirecTV Group thinks it has found the answer: WiMAX.

At the Reuters Telecommunications, Cable and Satellite Summit today, network equipment maker Alvarion Ltd.'s CEO Zvi Slonimsky said his company is in talks with DirecTV to supply wireless equipment that would enable DirecTV to use WiMAX for return path tasks.






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