Well they do claim to be able to provide homeland security and other emergency alerts, in addition to the non-real-time audio and video rebroadcasts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 1:28 AM Subject: [opendtv] Re: MARTA - Anyone know how Rail Network is doing it? Mark Schubin wrote: >WSB is being carried on Atlanta-area trains: >http://www.itsmarta.com/newsroom/press_releases/rel.asp?id=89 > >Anyone know the technology involved? > >TTFN, >Mark > > We saw this company give its pitch here in NYC last year. It was a WiFi in station update system. Each car had to have a system to store and play back content that was updated at each station or at the end of the line wirelessly using WiFi. Nothing is real time. Bob Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.