Winners in Southern New England Telecommunications Inc’s West Hartford, Connecticut video-on-demand trial are led by Hewlett-Packard Co for the MediaStream Server and Sybase Inc for the database software to handle content and transaction management, navigation and custom operational and business support applications for complete management of interactive services. Scientific-Atlanta Inc will supply both analogue and digital subscriber home communications terminals, including the analogue 8600X system, and the analogue and digital head-end equipment, with the digital system incorporating the new PowerTV operating system running Sybase applications. AT&T Corp’s Network Systems will supply the Asynchronous Transfer Mode devices to switch video streams among serving exchanges, and ADC Telecommunications Inc’s American Lightwave Systems will do digital transport technology to enable services to be broadcast across the trial areas. The service, to be tested in up 150,000 homes in Hartford and Westfield counties next year, is to provide video-on-demand, enhanced pay-per-view, banking, travel, home shopping and interactive games.
