9781587200908: Planet Broadband

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Yassini (founder of the first residential cable modem company) surveys the history and current state of broadband technology and touts it as a world transformative phenomenon. He argues that broadband will improve productivity and bring about earlier promises that the information age will lead to a healthier environment. He also paints a picture of content provision that will satisfy consumers' wishes for easily accessible information and corporations' wishes for profit. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Rouzbeh Yassini is the founder and CEO of YAS Broadband Ventures of Andover, MA. A technology incubator and venture capital firm, it supports novel applications of broadband technology. He is also a senior executive consultant of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., a research arm of the cable television industry. In 1991, he founded LANcity, introducing the first high-speed communications modem designed to integrate with cable television networks, spawning a new consumer electronics technology category known as the cable modem used today by more than 12 million U.S. households. In 1999, CED Magazine named him its Man of the Year, recognizing his contributions to the industry.

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