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Bandwidth Goes Over The Top On 4G LTE Networks Such “over the top” (OTT) content as that provided by Netflix and Pandora Radio is gaining market traction, opening up opportunities and challenging service provider networks. Internet video is now 40 percent of consumer Internet traffic, and it...
12.01.2011
Communications Technology’s 2011 Hall of Fame Jorge Salinger In recognition of his work to explain and promote the Comcast, Time Warner Cable and other CableLabs members' Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) initiative. Jorge Salinger, vice president/Access Network Architecture at Comcast Cable, almost...
12.01.2011
The 2011 CT Platinum Award Winners Cloud Software for Subscribers Comcast Interactive Media – Xfinity TV App (operator winner) Targeting Comcast Xfinity TV customers who have digital cable subscriptions, the Xfinity TV product and its back-end components – introduced in the fall of...
11.01.2011
Deciphering Digitizer Specs For Wireless Apps With wireless communications proliferating as never before, several parameters are important in the selection of a digitizer for acquiring and accurately measuring signals used for the design and testing of wireless equipment. Wireless engineering has become...
11.01.2011
The Promises and Challenges of Multiscreen Advertising The race for multiscreen video delivery is on. Most service providers either are in the planning or deployment stage of solutions that enable subscribers to consume video services on tablets, PCs, mobile phones and Web-connected TVs. Advertising has been a...
11.01.2011
Going Green Makes A Good Investment Facing a perfect storm of rising power costs, increasing demand for bandwidth and the resultant strain on existing facilities, the cable industry is looking for ways to reduce energy consumption and to increase access to alternative sources. Specifically...
11.01.2011
Susan Adams: A Doer Who Gets Things Done "I've never really selected a position for the title or money," says Susan Adams, senior vice president/Engineering & Technical Operations at Comcast - Northeast Division in Manchester, N.H. "I pursued career options that were the right fit...
11.01.2011
An Energy Policy For Cable Operators: Import More Revenue Operators are busy developing services and architectures aligned with trends in consumer expectations, online activities and social-networking behaviors. At the heart of these initiatives is the creation of converged experiences that integrate the...
11.01.2011
Why Cable Should Care About CDNs By Linda Hardesty, Associate Editor This month’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo features two workshops dealing with content delivery networks (CDNs), and there's a good chance the topic will come up during the...
10.01.2011
Down The Multi-Screen Rabbit Hole Innovation sometimes happens best in a state of near chaos, where many people are looking at a problem from many different angles. That certainly describes the current state of innovation when it comes to delivering video to multiple screens. From 36,000...
10.01.2011
Policy Control And Mobile Video There is no question video is both popular ( e.g., YouTube is now the second-largest search engine) and consumes tremendous amounts of network resources relative to almost any other application. In 2009, Cisco’s Visual Networking Index projected that...
10.01.2011
Gearing Up For HTML5 The broadband industry has been juggling a number of technology updates that have moved from the “nice to have” arena to being “must haves,” and they include the transition to IPv6, a move to Long Term Evolution in the wireless space...
09.26.2011
Comcast's Adams Wins CT's 'Women in Technology' Award CableFAX’s sister pub Communications Technology has awarded this year’s prestigious “Women in Technology” Award to Susan Adams, svp, Engineering and Operations for Comcast Cable’s Northeast Division....
09.01.2011
PONs: Why Testing For Conformance And Interoperability Are Key To Their Future Capacity and speed are the keys to a new generation of consumer broadband services, including multi-screen HD in-home video, interactive and conferencing services, and home monitoring/automation. Coupling them with lower latencies allows service providers to...
09.01.2011
Photonic Integration: Enabling The Terabit Era Currently, most high-speed digital optical transport is carried over 10 Gb/s waves using a pair of fibers (TX/RX). Using 160 x 10G DWDM lambdas with double density spacing at 25 GHz, a fiber pair can transport 1.6 Tb/s or half that if 50 GHz spacing is used...
09.01.2011
Using EPON-To-QAM Gateways For Commercial Purposes Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) solutions are becoming popular for commercial services in the North American cable market. Today, MSOs are using EPON primarily to deliver high-speed data and voice to business users, and for backhauling of digital...
09.01.2011
Delivering At the Point Of More Return As upstream services have become more sophisticated, so, too, has the supporting return-path technology. In the plant, return paths based on low-cost Fabry-Perot (FP) lasers proved sufficient for set-top-box (STB) communications. However, laser technology...
07.01.2011
DOCSIS 3.0 and the Tier 2/3 Operator For cable operators that offer bundled services (television, phone and Internet), the past 15 years have given them their fair share of changes in terms of what services and offerings should top that list and occupy the customer focus. As a result of the...
07.01.2011
LightSquared’s Heavy Regulatory, Technical Burdens. Will It Fly? Reston, Va.-based LightSquared is ramping up a unique terrestrial and satellite 4G LTE wireless network, using as much as 59 megahertz of terrestrial and L-band Ancillary Terrestrial Components (ATC) spectrum, mostly in the 1.6 GHz band. LightSquared's plan...
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