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| 11.18.2011 |
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CableLabs Targets Energy Efficiency of Set-Tops
Perhaps responding to pressure from some legislators who want more energy-efficient set-tops, or perhaps just wanting to do the right thing, CableLabs and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) announced an initiative to improve...
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| 10.19.2011 |
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Free Source Code Offered for Advanced Advertising
CableLabs is encouraging programmers to create new possibilities in interactive television advertising by making the source code and development tools for a new advanced advertising toolset available under a free community license. Vendors and developers are...
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| 05.10.2011 |
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Do Customers Really Want To Self-Install?
By Linda Hardesty My dad and I once spent a miserable Saturday afternoon putting together a "do-it-yourself" media cabinet. The salesman at the Scandinavian furniture store assured us it would be simple - any idiot with half a brain could do this...
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| 02.23.2010 |
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Digital Network Monitoring Raises Bar
Intense competitive pressures and rising customer expectations are driving small and independent cable operators to deploy more cost-efficient methods of managing their networks. That was the message sent by panelists during a session at the NCTC’s...
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| 08.19.2009 |
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Frost & Sullivan Gives Cox Customer Value Award
Cox Communications has been awarded the 2009 North American Broadband Customer Value Leadership Award by Frost & Sullivan. The honor recognizes Cox for providing the most economical and secure packages for high-speed Internet customers. "Given the...
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| 07.21.2009 |
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Shaw Likes Mountain’s Prospects
Without naming a purchase price, Shaw Communications President Peter Bissonnette confirmed that the planned acquisition of Ontario-based Mountain Cablevision was pricey. “There was a premium,” Bissonnette said. Assuming the $220 million (or more)...
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| 06.01.2009 |
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Speeding Upstream
Cable operators' market share is threatened, but DOCSIS 3.0 is here to save the day. Have you planned ahead?...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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The Need for Speed
Cable operators' market share is threatened, but DOCSIS 3.0 is here to save the day. Have you planned ahead?...
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| 08.20.2008 |
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Time Warner Cable Carolina: A Talk with Regional VP Engineering Carl Newberry
What made Time Warner Cable Carolina Region standout as this year's System of the Year? The cover story in the July issue of...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Very High Speed
Channel bonding has arrived in Quebec, deployed by Canadian cable op Videotron....
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| 12.01.2007 |
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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 parameters....
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| 11.01.2007 |
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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...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Structured Wiring
Bright House partners with builders and low voltage integrators to gain a home networking foothold in new construction....
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| 08.01.2007 |
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System of the Year: Cox Orange County/Palos Verdes
A pioneering system that helped write the book on cable telephony a decade ago, Cox Communications Orange County/Palos Verdes is CT's 2007 System of the Year...
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| 06.25.2007 |
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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...
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| 05.01.2007 |
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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...
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| 02.28.2007 |
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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...
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| 12.01.2006 |
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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...
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| 11.07.2006 |
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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...
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| 11.07.2006 |
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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...
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