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| 11.28.2011 |
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Survey Sez: Consumers Don't Fast-Forward Through VOD Ads
Video on demand (VOD) advertising is viewed as a revenue growth opportunity for pay-TV providers. Approximately $65 billion is spent annually on linear ads, compared with about $1 billion for VOD. However, operators are beefing up their VOD offerings and are...
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| 10.10.2011 |
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Henan Cable Provides Network DVR Via Motorola
Chinese operator Henan Cable has deployed the Motorola M3 Media Server for both video on demand (VOD) and network digital video recording (nDVR). The M3 Media Server family is a solid-state platform for the delivery of content across...
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| 09.19.2011 |
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SeaChange Helps SureWest Sell DVDs For Home Delivery
SureWest Communications will give its Kansas City subscribers the option of purchasing videos from the VOD menu. The T-commerce technology is made possible through the latest version of SeaChange International's video-on-demand (VOD) platform...
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| 08.29.2011 |
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Chattanooga Rocks When It Comes to Broadband
Chattanooga, Tenn., is positioning itself as the most advanced city in the nation for wired and wireless broadband technology. The city utility, EPB, has recently completed a 1 Gbps fiber-to-the-home network, offering a triple play of broadband services and...
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| 07.12.2011 |
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DECT Reinvents Itself for Home Automation
Traditionally, digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT)-based products have been associated with cordless phones and public switched telephone network (PSTN)-connected base units for providing voice services. However, the DSP Group, a provider of...
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| 06.27.2011 |
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High-Income Households Are Most Likely To Subscribe To Pay-TV
New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 87 percent of households nationwide subscribe to some form of multi-channel video service. The percentage of households that subscribe to a multi-channel video service is similar to last...
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| 05.27.2011 |
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Small Cable Operator Deploys Hosted SDV
The biggest challenge for Cable Cable - a small triple-play provider in Ontario, Canada - is competing for video subscribers against satellite behemoths and their huge marketing budgets. Cable Cable has about 4,200 subscribers. Its HFC plant can beat...
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| 05.17.2011 |
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Netflix Gobbles More Bandwidth
Sandvine today released its Global Internet Phenomena Report: Spring 2011, including Internet trends from North America, Latin America and Europe, with specific spotlights on events such as Netflix adoption. Major findings from the report include: In North...
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| 01.04.2010 |
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BendBroadband Grows Its Own Wireless
BendBroadband’s decision to launch a wireless data network to customers in central Oregon brings the potential of 15 Mbps service over a homegrown network built from scratch. The smallish Oregon-based service provider’s combination of licensed...
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| 09.30.2009 |
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FTTH Council Crowns Cox Competitor
The Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council presented its annual North American Star Award to South Louisiana-based service provider EATEL. In business through its subsidiary East Ascension Telephone Company since 1935, EATEL began deploying fiber to homes in 2004...
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| 09.02.2009 |
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Venerable Queen Goes Wireless
It has 14 art deco salons, a boatload of history and an illustrious career dating back to 1936. Permanently anchored some four decades ago and used as a luxury hotel and conference center in Long Beach, Calif., the Queen Mary has now gone wireless. But...
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| 08.19.2009 |
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A Look Back: Ice Storm of 2009
It's a little odd to think about ice storms in August, but the time to plan is beforehand, not during or afterward. Both preparation and recovery take time, lots of time. The chilling ice storm that ripped through parts of Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky and...
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| 08.18.2009 |
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Cox Backbone Grows with ROADMs
As data and video traffic grow, so too must an operator’s optical backbone. Capital costs can be significant, but an integrated network can reduce overall costs and greatly simplify management and the deployment of new services. Reconfigurable optical...
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| 07.07.2009 |
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NPG Blooms in Desert, Elsewhere
Laying a fiber ring in the desert vastness between Las Vegas and Phoenix presented NPG Cable with some unique challenges; dodging endangered snakes and avoiding historical wagon tracks among them. But three years later, NPG is maximizing its VOD content, is...
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| 07.02.2009 |
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Prime Time Upgrades to MPEG-4 in Utah
Prime Time Communications has expanded HD services to subscribers in Salt Lake City by upgrading to MPEG-4. The changeover took two weeks in May and involved 3800 customers. “We pulled techs from every locations around the country, with appointments...
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| 06.01.2009 |
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Case Study: Bright House Deploys tru2way
Successfully implementing tru2way requires significant planning and preparation....
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| 03.01.2009 |
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All-Digital
Basic vs. digital subs, truck rolls or self-install, set-tops and DTAs, MPEG-2 vs. MPEG-4, legacy vs. open CA, regulatory compliance or waiver, large or small MSO - the all-digital equation has many variables....
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| 02.24.2009 |
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NCTC Ops Switch, Pull and Reclaim
Three small cable operators offered status reports on their respective spectrum management plans at the National Cable Television Cooperative's annual Winter Educational Conference in Charlotte, NC, yesterday (Feb. 23.) The three executives addressed three...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Case Study: Fiber-Deep, 5 Years Later
Suddenlink looks back on its first experiment with fiber-deep architecture....
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| 07.01.2008 |
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Case Study: SIP Business Voice
It's not just the big MSOs that want to get into the SMB voice market. Though the hurdles are many, small and medium-sized operators can play in this space, too....
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