Kieran Kunhya
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
which also play video games.
And the university tells them that basically, oh, I'm sorry, we cannot help you because you understand the campus is not ours.
You manage it.
So,
Do something.
And you should see some basically partners of the university and basically go away.
And they go and they actually go and see the CIO of Bouygues, which is a large French company and who's doing some TVs in France.
And he says, well, you know what?
The future of video is satellite.
Well, today we know it's not, but at least it was a good idea in 1995, the first of satellite dish.
And he says that...
Instead of having like one satellite dish and a big decoder for each of the students, which are 1,500, what about you build, like you put an enormous dish and only one decoder and you send the video directly on the network.
And that required a very fast network.
Today, it's obvious.
But at the time, it was like the first to do video streaming.
So they built this project, which was called Network 2000.
Of course, we're in the 90s, right?
Everything is futuristic.
It's called 2000.
And so they do the network 2000 project.