Time Warner Cable Full Service Network — Silicon Graphics Technology and Architecture Overview

Abstract

Sixty years after Philo T. Farnsworth first demonstrated a television system, his amazing invention remains in some respects exactly as he left it. Though television has received wide spread distribution around the world and the quality of the picture has steadily improved, it remains for the most part a passive display system for broadcasting images into the home. Even telephone technology has experienced more evolutionary development than television, with individualized, interactive services such as voice mail, call waiting, conference calling and others. Television is about to undergo a revolutionary transformation, with the introduction of the Time Warner Cable’s Full Service Network (FSN), the world’s first digital, interactive television network.