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OCR: gating it," says Ivor both being able to access movies, educational Knight, vice-president of and instructional materials when needed and SPECIAL REPORT Business Technology and being able to manipulate and reformat them. Standards at Comsat, a satellite Nynex plans to have a dozen ATM switches de- company that is the US signatory to the world- ployed in its area of operation, which is the New wide Intelsat system. England/New York territories, and has already got Nyrfex, one of the seven regional Bell operating fibre running in the rnajor business buildings in the companies in the United States, has done a lot of cities. R&D work in multimedia deployment. Its major challenge now is getting similar facili- Its vice-president of research ties into the homes. Super thinks that it should take and development, another three years for ATM and fibre to be ubiqui- Tom Super, says tous in Nynex's region. the company is in- In Asia, Singapore and Hong Kong are well on creasing its focus their way to installing fibre to the home. Both also on delivering multi- have ISDN facilities. media information to residential cus- tomers. "We believe that Audio cards such as multimedia video Logitech's and video on de- So undman 16 mand will be the (above ) and ACS Computer's LaserWave driving force," says Supra 16 offer true 16-bit IBM Super, referring to CD-qualit y stereo so und, with interactive video sampling rates of up to 44 kHz