Pace's gateway lets telecom companies deliver video and interactive services over copper wires. The product uses MPEG-2 decoding, an Ethernet interface and support for Java. So far, customers include Grant County's public utilities department in Washington state, with more than 7,000 miles of fiber-optic cable installed and plans for 40,000 more miles. At its 2006 buildout, the cable should reach 40,000 homes. The Pace boxes will be used, Artesian notes.
Pace develops digital home gateways.
Artesian provides Internet appliances and digital print media solutions for e-commerce. Now it's a European empire. Cable magnate John C. Malone's cable connections are taking him into the overseas market in what observers call a potential European repeat of his American cable performance. Malone is becoming a majority shareholder in United Global Communications, whose European operation, United Pan-Europe Communications, represents about 70 percent of UGC's 2000 revenue, the New York Times reports. The channels are owned by Liberty Media, of which Malone is chair.