I work for a division of computing at Dartmouth, and having used the new cable system over the network, I have to say that I was impressed. It's not the fastest thing in the world, but it seemed like a lot of that was coming from the fact that the interface is just a java app launched from your browser (and I was testing it on an old quirky tablet). It still worked though. Quality was reasonable, and CNN headline news still looked like CNN.
So it actually works-I don't think they would be implementing it if it didn't. Although, being an educational institution, you never know... The only issue is going to be that they want to open the system up for students to broadcast their own stations. The estimate around my office is that it will be about 3.5 hours after it's up before the first student run porn station pops up.
The same thing happened at Dartmouth a few months back. Some hacker got into a benifits server in our machine room. This got them access to SSNs of all Dartmouth employees and their dependents. In response to security concerns, they're implementing a PERSONAl firewall client (sygate) instead of front end. Makes me feel safe, when myself and the rest of my family works there...
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I work for a division of computing at Dartmouth, and having used the new cable system over the network, I have to say that I was impressed. It's not the fastest thing in the world, but it seemed like a lot of that was coming from the fact that the interface is just a java app launched from your browser (and I was testing it on an old quirky tablet). It still worked though. Quality was reasonable, and CNN headline news still looked like CNN. So it actually works-I don't think they would be implementing it if it didn't. Although, being an educational institution, you never know... The only issue is going to be that they want to open the system up for students to broadcast their own stations. The estimate around my office is that it will be about 3.5 hours after it's up before the first student run porn station pops up.
The same thing happened at Dartmouth a few months back. Some hacker got into a benifits server in our machine room. This got them access to SSNs of all Dartmouth employees and their dependents. In response to security concerns, they're implementing a PERSONAl firewall client (sygate) instead of front end. Makes me feel safe, when myself and the rest of my family works there...