美国有线电视公司和电话公司之间正在酝酿一场技术战。谁能捷足先登,将多媒体视像、数据和Internet业务送入美国家庭,谁就能在大战中取胜。 由于双方网络线路基础结构明显不同,所以双方的斗争策略也就根本不同。有线电视公司希望通过它们现有的光纤和同轴线路将宽带视像和数据送入美国家庭。然而,电话公司坚持认为,它们更大的光纤和铜缆网络能以更快的速度将数据送入更多的家庭。 然而,在工业分析家和经营者看来,赢家也许取决于别出心裁的推销功夫,而非光纤或铜缆技术优势。 去年12月在加州阿纳海姆举行的西部有线展示会上, A technology war is brewing between U.S. cable companies and telephone companies. Whoever can pre-empt, send multimedia video, data and Internet businesses into the American family will win the war. Due to the obviously different network infrastructure of the two sides, the strategy of struggle between the two parties is fundamentally different. Cable companies want to bring broadband video and data to American homes through their existing fiber and coaxial lines. However, phone companies insist that their larger fiber and copper networks can send data to more homes faster. However, in the eyes of industrial analysts and operators, winners may depend on crafting salesmanship, rather than fiber or copper technology. At the Western Cable Show in December last year in Anaheim, California,