use "wiredbrain".
The ability to look, find, gather in, and regroup our world views, to
"catch-on" to changes in the ecology is quite different.
Now Orion is a big company and very important, Mr. Hauser is a VIP -
how come I can't find them on the WEB ??? In Netscape a name will
find the domain so "Orion" should produce www.orion.com if
there is one - not what I am looking for - If you put in words like
"Orion Network Systems Inc" Netscape does a search on one
of the engines - then you can go to their search page and try
companies etc. NO LUCK .. This is very unusual - the Domain Name: is
ORIONNSI.COM and WhoIs will find their registration. Mr. Hauser is a
creative guy and VIP - but can't find Hauser Communications. see also
http://www.pcmag.com:80/issues/1604/pcmg0015.htm
Set-top boxes and Net-savvy television accessories deliver the
world of the Web to your family for a fraction of the cost of a PC
Orion Network Systems Launches WorldCast(SM) Satellite-Based
Internet/Intranet Network for International ISPs WASHINGTON, Feb. 5
/PRNewswire/ -- Orion Network Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONSI) today
launched WorldCast(SM), the first of a family of innovative
Internet/intranet solutions for International Internet Service
Providers (IISPs) and multinational corporations. WorldCast is a
satellite-based service that supports multicast traffic and workflow,
database, groupware and conferencing applications. It also provides a
192 Kpbs Usenet channel, free of charge to IISPs.
WorldCast
addresses the need for real-time international Internet/INTRANET
access to the U.S. Internet, where more than 80% of total content
resides.
The Orion 1 satellite provides a more powerful, flexible and
reliable medium fro Internet access than landline -- at a lower cost.
"Satellites are ideally suited to take advantage of
the asymmetry of the Internet," said Richard Greco, Senior VP of
Marketing at Orion. "Requests are usually very small amounts of
data, and responses are usually four times as large. Orion's
satellite can configure networks for IISPs that matches bandwidth to
customer traffic patterns resulting in lower network costs."
WorldCast can save customers up to 20 percent on Internet service.
The service bypasses congested terrestrial infrastructures and
delivers information across the Internet to multiple points, thereby
dramatically reducing network transport costs.
The availability to
bypass landlines also results in Orion's guarantee of 99.5% network
availability and Internet access.
WorldCast is a
full mesh burstable TCP/IP network delivered via satellite that
overlays the terrestrial Internet.
The overlay enables INTRANET
applications and improves Internet performance by matching bandwidth
to customer demand and delivering material to multiple points
simultaneously with the higher throughput that a Ku-band satellite
can offer. WorldCast can be delivered entirely by satellite or
integrated with existing terrestrial networks. Orion offers WorldCast
with their standard package of support -- one point of contact and
one bill for service, sales, maintenance and support of a
multinational network; typically, modification; and 24 hours a day/7
days a week local agent support. Orion Network Systems is an
international satellite communications company that provides private
multimedia communications networks, Internet access, intranet
services and video distribution along with other satellite
transmission services.
Orion will have a
demonstration at ComNet '97 in booth #1064 that contrasts the
performance of Internet use via satellite versus traditional
terrestrial delivery. Demos of a TCP/IP video conference via Internet
and a large video file downloading will be available to test.
SOURCE Orion Network Systems, Inc.
Name: Orion Network Systems Inc
Location: Rockville, Maryland, United States
of America Internet Domain: orionnsi.com
can't find Homepage ? Orion Network
Systems, Inc. (ORIONNSI-DOM) 2440 Research Blvd.
Rockville, MD 20850
US
Domain Name: ORIONNSI.COM
Administrative Contact:
Bell, Dennis (BD25-ORG) support@FABRIK.COM
(800) 563-7721
Fax: (415) 986-4427
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Foster, Robb (RF157) robb@FABRIK.COM
(415)439-6604
Billing Contact:
Darlington, Taite (TD296) billing@FABRIK.COM
415-986-4933
Record last updated on 31-Jul-96.
Record created on 31-Jul-96.
Domain servers in listed order:
PORTIA.FABRIK.COM 205.162.124.20
NS2.CALLAMER.COM 199.74.141.2
CONTACT: Judith
Pryor of Orion Network Systems, 301-670-6563, or Kim Greenwood,
202-828-8839, for Orion Network Systems onsi Other major Orion
partners or investors in Orion include British Aerospace, Lockheed
Martin, Space Systems/Loral, Matra Hachette of France and Nissho Iwai
of Japan.
Mr.
Hauser said, ''Orion was the first company to seek regulatory
approval for private ownership and operation of international
satellite communications facilities, and it is now building an
advanced technology, three-satellite global communications system.
Orion will provide multinational businesses with private, customized
voice, data and video communications networks, permitting any
location to communicate directly with one or more other locations
through small rooftop antennas linked by Orion's satellites.
The
system will also transmit international television signals for
entertainment and other purposes.
The first satellite (Orion 1) was
successfully launched November 29, 1994 and is providing
trans-Atlantic and intra-European network services for such customers
as Citibank, Colgate-Palmolive, Pepsi Cola, Viacom, AT&T, Sprint
and British Telecom. Orion is also being used by CNN and other
network television news organizations to transmit live television
coverage of the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. ''
The Company has an
exciting future. Tomorrows story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the
future:
has
selected IBM to provide every K-12 school, teacher and student in the
United States with a free Internet Web site. Dubbed the American
School Directory project, this project will provide information and
communication for teachers, students, parents, local communities and
families planning a move.
the
Fourth Wave - a new topic
We
expect to launch Orion 2 for expanded trans-Atlantic service and
Orion 3 to service the Pacific Ocean area,'' he added. According to
Orion's President and Chief Executive Officer W. Neil Bauer, ''Mr.
Hauser is particularly recognized for his contributions to the
development of cable communications. He is responsible for the
original development of such innovations as MTV Music Television
network, Nickelodeon (the children's channel), pay-per-view and other
advanced interactive cable television services. His recent sale of
certain major cable television systems to Southwestern Bell
Corporation (SBC Communications, Inc.) marked the entry of the Bell
telephone companies into the cable TV and video distribution
business.'' Mr. Hauser is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Hauser Communications, Inc., a private investment and operating
company which has been involved in cable television and other
electronic communications. From 1973 to 1983, Mr. Hauser was Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Cable Communications, which in
1980 became Warner Amex Cable Communications. He is a graduate of the
Harvard Law School. John G. Puente has been Chairman of the Company
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RE:
Punctuated Equilibrium
-
PC
revolution II How to survive ?
The
recruits to a tough training program are traditionally told to "Look
to the right, look to the left, one of you won't be here next year."
Sixty five million years ago, at the annual meeting of the Dinosaurs
/IBM/MS/PC Productions Inc. they heard a talk by the current
management guru about becoming small, fast and furry.
They were told,
their survival depended on their ability to adapt to the rapid
changes in their global environment.
The huge Dinosaurs looked at
each other and wondered how they were going to change from large,
cold blooded reptiles to mammals.
The motivational speaker suggested
"visualization"
They should relax and imagine "in
their minds" eye that they were small, fast and furry. If they
had a "positive" attitude nothing was impossible. It didn't
work.
Almost
all species that ever existed are extinct. Human, as all creatures
large and small ( except maybe insects ) are not biologically
designed for rapid change. What happens is mass extinctions.
The
space ( niches ) made by short periods of extinctions are then slowly
filled ( somewhat at random ) by the survivors. Species survive by
geographic dispersion and innate variety. How to survive the mass
extinction that
NC's
will cause among PC's or how to become very small, very fast and
very furry.
The high ground is an expanded vision of the ISP (
Internet Service Provider ) and this will happen a order of magnitude
faster than most people think.
Electronic
Prototype Community On-line Technology RE:
The
Information Planet
The
synergy of low orbit
Satellites
satellites, ground station/servers transmitters, cell transponders (
wireless phones ) with the NC ( Network Computer ) Web-TV will
produce a major revolution in the information/computer/software
business ( that Bill Gates will announce by the end of the year).
General purpose remote servers will provide data and applications to
new kinds utility power machines. Web pages are a input-output form
that update records, contain e-mail, http, java instructions that
inform, instruct, question, and interact with the individual and
their special functions. As a text book, accounts book, order book,
to-do notebook, bank book, tour book, phone book, library book, power
book all hyper- linked to the net and powerful graphic display it has
become the most robust information tool ever and the cornerstone of
the computer/educational/informational third wave post industrial
global society.
The public schools are still in the 19th century, and
public policy has not focused on how the military-industrial complex
of NASA, DOD ( Navy ) Communications, NSA ( CIA ) and super-computers
all ready have the physical network in place. Opening of military
technology and hardware could project the USA into true Super-power
information technology well ahead of Europe or the Far East ( Japan
).
The great Internet Server (ISP) in the sky can do what ever you
imagine to be in your interests, your personal search engine will tie
information to java scripts, as now done by
MIRIMBA.COM
see the BongoTaste demo, and present you at any time with up to
date information individually searched at your command .
http://www.mirimba.com/people/klass/index.htmll Your IP connection
can set up a private channel so your interests, software,
information, and data is updated all the time and ready to go. (
POINTCAST ,
EXCITE ,
Newspage , Pathfinder,
INTERmind ,
FREELOADER and WATCH OUT it can mess your system up and use up a
LOT of disk space. Netscape-Oracle-Sun, Lotus Notes all are
scrambling to get this in place) Your all-in-one office is anywhere.
The Network gives you private connections to work groups,
conferences, http e-mail with audio/video, telephone, data bases
which produce individualized reports in 3-D graphics, what you need
or can imagine you need, what, or hope for is all there and cheap.
Your search engine news will including what the other groups are
doing, inside, outside and topside. POINTCAST, Excite, and
Netscape/Marimba/Oracle/Sun are ready to go ! ( also the search
engines such as Yahoo, AltaVista, see:
AND has been for almost a year - I am now sorting into major pages
and will cut this page down. This page is a link to other resources
and topics, go to the page for the topic of interest to you : 
RE: SOME ASSEMBLE REQUIRED: 'Net access for all mankind Teledesic
takes on the world