Hewlett-Packard Co will be using LSI Logic Corp’s single chip Asynchronous Transfer Mode implementation for use in the interactive television server it plans to introduce next year. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, which splits data into small fixed-length packets for transmission at high speed, is seen as central to the delivery of interactive television, because it is regarded as the most efficient method of delivering simultaneous video, data and audio. The new server is designed to move data rapidly and has already been adopted by Pacific Telesis Group Inc’s Pacific Telesis Video Services unit for its first deployment of video services into four areas in California, and by BellSouth Corp for its interactive television trial in Atlanta, Georgia.
