Author here. It was fascinating technology but in some ways it was aspirational. It was a bidirectional device at a time when the network itself could only talk in one direction.
The hope among NABU developers was that the service would become popular enough that cable services would upgrade. That ultimately did not happen, because the service itself did not become popular enough for that.
I mean, this service had Tom Wheeler, coming right off of being the head of the cable industry’s trade group, running this in the U.S., and even he could not get the industry to move faster.
The hope among NABU developers was that the service would become popular enough that cable services would upgrade. That ultimately did not happen, because the service itself did not become popular enough for that.
I mean, this service had Tom Wheeler, coming right off of being the head of the cable industry’s trade group, running this in the U.S., and even he could not get the industry to move faster.