Within that application, the network can be used to teach students outside the physical classroom. Just as telecommuting allows employees to work from home, distance learning allows students to learn from home. Maintenance, troubleshooting, meter reading and usage monitoring can be performed from a remote location. The cable network can be used to monitor homes for fires, break-ins, and medical emergencies. Since the cable network has the available bandwidth to support streaming audio and video, it can support karaoke as an application.
Users can download video clips and sing the words into a PC microphone.
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