The principal challenge, experts say, is ensuring that the new two-way conversation (whether using phone lines, cable or wireless connections) is stable, reliable and secure.
There were electric lines, telephone lines, cable television lines, even lines for the city's fire alarms -- all of them joining on this tar-stained totem of technological ingenuity.
In addition, there are ever more distribution paths: wireless, telephone lines, cable and satellite all potentially compete to carry facts and fun into people's homes.In this section Car crash ahead The comfort of strangers All that glisters . . .
However, such systems are generally too expensive for individual network users, who turn instead to ISDN lines, cable modems, DSL connections, or some form of wireless or satellite system for high-speed Internet access.
The 74-to-11 74-to-11 74-to-11the measure set up a debate thrusting senators into the realm of digital subscriber lines, cable modems and votee-over-Intornet protoconsiderpolicy areas unheard of justhe few years ago.
Cable and Wireless, once the spine of Britain's imperial telecommunications in the era of fixed lines, cable and telex, moved into the business of operating Web sites in the late 1990's, just before the collapse of the Internet and technology boom.
