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Reconfigurable Broadband ISDN Access Platform

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 27993
Amount: $78,842.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 1995
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
Po Box 24344
Minneapolis, MN 55424
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Jordan C. Bonney
 (612) 935-2035
Business Contact
Phone: () -
Research Institution
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Abstract

As interest in the National Information Infrastructure continues to gain momentum, telephone, and cable-television service providers continue to work on ways for increasing data bandwidth into the home and office. The service providers' goal is to provide sufficient bandwidth to support both existing services and novel applications such as on-demand video. For economic reasons, service providers will retain as much of their existing network infrastructure as possible. As such, a single pipe carrying digital voice, video, and data into the home and office is expected; an access device will be required to interface existing user-equipment to the incoming data stream. We propose an easily reconfigurable, low cost broadband-ISDN access device that uses credit-card-size replaceable modules to provide access to different physical connections and physical-layer protocols. The physical-layer adapter will forward digital data to a variety of interface adapters that provide functions, such as video transmission to televisions, voice transmission to telephones, and data routing to local area networks and personal computers. The proposed Phase I research will determine the feasibility of developing a general-purpose broadband-ISDN access device using commercially available microprocessor and bus technologies.

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