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04.01.2008		Very High Speed DOCSIS 3.0, while not entirely here yet, is definitely up and coming. Canadian cable operator Videotron has deployed channel-bonded high-speed Internet service on a substantial scale. According to a Leger Marketing survey, 71.7 percent of people in Quebec ...
12.01.2007		Broadband: Service Availability For several years, I've said cable operators can provide reliable high-speed data, voice, and digital video services if the entire cable network - headend, distribution plant, and subscriber drops - meets or exceeds certain minimum technical performance...
11.01.2007		Broadband: A Closer Look at BER, Part 2 Let’s say we want to ensure the BER - bit error rate or bit error ratio - at a cable modem’s input is less than 1 x 10-8, also expressed as 1.0E-08. Recall from last month’s column that transmitting three times the reciprocal of the...
10.01.2007		Structured Wiring In a market increasingly dominated by consumer electronics retailers, Bright House Networks, Tampa Bay division, has created a way to use business partnerships and home wiring to secure the home for cable services. It is a model that other operators may want...
08.01.2007		System of the Year: Cox Orange County/Palos Verdes In 1999, Cox Communications consolidated seven Orange County, California, sites into one facility in Rancho Santa Margarita. It's a massive, 300,000 square-foot building that spans more than 24 acres. Built for fifteen years earlier for another industry, Cox...
06.25.2007		DOCSIS 3.0: Acceleration Communications Technology and sponsor Texas Instruments held a panel discussion —  DOCSIS 3.0: Offense or Defense? — at the 2007 Cable Show in Las Vegas offering a technical overview of DOCSIS 3.0 including roadmaps and business plans on how...
05.01.2007		Broadband: What's a QAM? Every industry has its own jargon, some of which is often incomprehensible to outsiders. This is certainly true of the cable industry. Much of cable's terminology is technical in nature, making some of our favorite words, phrases, abbreviations and acronyms...
02.28.2007		All Hranac, All the Time For those who've been looking for all of Ron Hranac's articles in one place, here they are: columns, features, and even the odd Webcast, from February 2003 to today. Articles are listed by date, most recent first. Just click on the headline to read the full...
12.01.2006		Broadband: Migrating to All-Digital, Part 2 The biggest logistical challenge in the move to all-digital operation will without a doubt be the process of migrating all of a system’s subscribers from analog to digital services. Most, if not all, subs will need a digital set-top box connected to...
11.07.2006		Comcast Media Center: Ad Distribution A Cable360.net Video Exclusive Communications Technology associate editor Mike Robuck interviews Gary Traver, SVP and COO of Comcast Media Center, in a 3-part interview. Part 3...
11.07.2006		Comcast Media Center: Total Digital Solutions A Cable360.net Video Exclusive Communications Technology associate editor Mike Robuck interviews Gary Traver, SVP and COO of Comcast Media Center, in a 3-part interview...
11.07.2006		Comcast Media Center: On Demand Solutions A Cable360.net Video Exclusive Communications Technology associate editor Mike Robuck interviews Gary Traver, SVP and COO of Comcast Media Center, in a 3-part interview. Part 1: How the...
11.07.2006		Taking Care of Business: David Pistacchio, Cablevision A Cable360.net Video Exclusive Communications Technology editor Jonathan Tombes caught up with David Pistacchio, EVP and GM of Cablevision's Optimum Lightpath business services division, at the SCTE...
11.06.2006		GIS a Bigger Tool in Toolbox Geographic Information Systems are becoming more prevalent in operators’ toolboxes these days. GIS can cable help operators not only find subscribers and businesses in their own footprints, but also keep track of where telcos are laying fiber or where...
09.13.2006		What Makes Comcast Washington System of the Year A Cable360.net Video Exclusive Over the past year, Comcast's Seattle team launched digital voice and signed up thousands of subscribers, served millions of on-demand...
09.01.2006		Would You Like to Start Over? What It Is, What It Means Time Warner's Start Over service is generating some interesting results, some of which challenge the conventional VOD wisdom. Simply stated, Start Over is a success and predictably so. The launch of the Start Over service was born of direct customer feedback...
08.16.2006		Unsolicited Grant Service (UGS) Turns Mountain Cablevision into a Voice Lighthouse  Unsolicited Grant Service (UGS) Turns Mountain Cablevision into a Voice Lighthouse Cable telephony looks great on a white board; sounds stunning at a shareholder meeting; is a fine foundation for clever TV advertising - and is a bear to do right. The earliest...
08.03.2006		Signal to Noise Digital Simulcast: Costs and Benefits for Smaller Operators Two cable operators took the helm during a technical session at this week's NCTC/ACA-sponsored Independent Show in Chicago to discuss their deployment of technology that enables the simultaneous...
08.01.2006		FMC Options, Questions and Solutions Keep an eye on the mobility application server, multiple touchpoints of convergence, numbering systems and interoperability as the industry moves toward IMS/PacketCable 2.0-based fixed-mobile convergence. For many years, CableLabs and cable industry veterans...
08.01.2006		VOD Snaphots Comcast ramps up HD VOD, Cox crunches numbers and Verizon launches VOD over GPON. Video-on-demand (VOD) has come a long way since cable operators launched the first movies in 2001. In the beginning, it was all about getting movies to customers while finding...
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