Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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NASA TV via the Internet

NASA would be a gorilla for Wave ETS and WaveExpress TVtonic. Manage TPMs for NASA LAN/WAN with secure access, communications, etc. for employees on earth and astronauts is space coupled with DVD quality coverage of missions and recoreded highlights. Lee can't be too far from Cambridge where Akamai is located. They and Yahoo have "streaming" rights to NASA TV. The streaming looks good. 22 minutes until launch.

For the STS-114 mission, NASA has signed partnership agreements with Akamai and Yahoo! to provide webcasting of NASA Television well beyond the agency's normal capacity. Yahoo! Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., will provide live streaming of NASA TV mission coverage in Windows Media format and be the only other official online host of NASA TV footage beyond the NASA website. Akamai, of Cambridge, Mass., will stream NASA TV for RealPlayer and deliver all other Web content during the mission.

With a 12-day mission that includes three spacewalks, NASA expects to deliver more data to users than it has for anything but the Mars Exploration Rovers, which are still going strong after 18 months on the mysterious red planet.