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Services on Convergence of telecommunication and broadcasting CATV Telephone Near Video-On-Demand (NVOD) Digital Transmission Technologies

PROJECT NAME:

R&D on service technologies for integrating telecommunication and broadcasting by wide area CATV network.

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND CURRENT LOCATION:

Meguro Ward, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

PROJECT COORDINATOR:

Mr. Toshio Cho
Research Promotion Department
Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Janap

BRIEF OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY:

R&D to create transmission technologies, for example, wide arena CATV networks, Digital CATV transmission,NVOD, etc., by connecting multiple CATV networks.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

To complete and promote the info-communication infrastructure by transferring technologies created through this project to the private sector.

EXPECTED/ACTUAL RESULTS:

An expansion of domestic demand is expected by the creation of new businessthrough this project.

PARTNERS/ACTORS IN THE PROJECT:

Experiments will be conducted by;
Tokyu Cable Television Co., LTD.
Yokohama TV Co., LTD.
Japan Network Service Co., LTD.

USE OF INFORMATION/TELEMATIC TECHNOLOGIES:

MPEG 2 (Digital compression technogy)
64 QAM (Digital modulation technogy)
TDMA (Digital transmission technogy)

BENEFITS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:

Services integrating telecommunications and broadcasting by CATV networks will, as new info-communication services, reply to peoples' diversified and advanced information needs andcontribute significantly to the development of the information society.

EXPECTED COST:

Approximately 1.8 billion yen in FY 1995.