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07.01.2008		Case Study: SIP Business Voice Small to medium-size business (SMB) phone service is a major focus for cable operators this year. You can't turn too many pages of any industry publication without seeing mention of the great opportunity this represents to cable operators, or a vendor...
06.01.2008		Optical Outlook The shift from lease to build in long-haul optics continues. Last fall, Cox Communications and Suddenlink separately began taking greater ownership of their optical links by installing opto-electronics from two relatively new players in this space. In Cox's...
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 ...
12.26.2007		BROADBAND: Hospitality Suite You're scouring the Internet for the right hotel. Good location? Check. Great rate? Check. Broadband? No. Next listing. "Broadband in hotels is as important as broadband at home," Greg Ioffe, general manager of private broadband networks for...
12.26.2007		VIDEO ON DEMAND: Can't Measure, Can't Manage New research from SNL Kagan estimates that total VOD, PPV and NVOD revenue generated by U.S. multichannel service providers will top $6 billion within five years. In the study, entitled "Video-On-Demand: A Strategic and Economic Analysis," SNL Kagan...
12.01.2007		Video on Demand While clearly maturing, video on demand (VOD) is not necessarily aging. As one might expect from this stage in its product life cycle, VOD is now reaching into niche areas, such as international and small-system markets (see sidebar on page 39.) Consumer...
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...
02.01.2007		Digital Voice Case Studies Buckeye Cable: Giving Voice to Customers When you’ve been delivering voice services as long as Buckeye Cable—a little more than eight years—you learn a few lessons. For instance, truck rolls will always be a part of life. For another...
02.01.2007		Device Shifting Two key ways for cable companies to demonstrate that network functionality is evolving to accommodate their subscribers’ busy, changing lifestyles are time shifting and device shifting. Time shifting refers to the ability for viewers to have some degree...
01.03.2007		Verizon Stretches Business Services Backbone There's business and then there's Big Business. While cable operators in United States are starting to take a big bite out of the $110 billion to $120 billion business services sector, there are other operators, such as Verizon, who play on a global scale...
01.01.2007		The Business of Metro Ethernet John Southard stepped into a technology firestorm when he came on board as the temporary CIO at the New York Law School in late summer two years ago. Southard, who was substituting for a colleague on maternity leave at the time and who was subsequently...
11.29.2006		Charter Launches Dynamic On Demand Ad Trial Last week's news that Charter Communications is piloting the dynamic insertion of ads in its headquarters market of St. Louis was a harbinger of good news for both operators and advertisers. For cable operators, on-demand advertising will bring a much-needed...
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...
10.01.2006		Broadband Telephony: Toy or Tool? Until a couple of months ago, I had been pretty much ignoring the increasing number of broadband telephony products. Then a press notice from Vonage inviting me to sample a new offering called V-phone caught my eye, mainly because it stated that the product...
09.01.2006		Advanced Provisioning for Commercial Opportunities: VoIP, VPN and T-1 Manual and end user-driven device configuration leave much to be desired. Here's how to move this game to the next level. The HFC network has advanced in technical capacity several times in just the past five years, going deeper, increasing bandwidth, and...
09.01.2006		Top Tiers: Cox Gulf Coast, Mountain CableVision and Time Warner South Carolina From disaster recovery to test beds to solid fundamentals and innovation, these three systems all hit the mark. Communications Technology's annual System of the Year and Top-Tier System awards lead to special recognition at Cable-Tec Expo and coverage in...
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...
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