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08.07.2008		Social Networking Across Devices The term "social networking" is cropping up everywhere these days as companies try to tap into and leverage the phenomenon of creating virtual communities of friends and family and the enthusiasm of the digital generation for texting, blogs and...
08.04.2008		Earnings Highlights—Voice and Business A quick review of the "C" companies whose earnings were reported over the past week indicates that telephony and business services continue to be key growth drivers. Numbers from CableOne point to telephony. Reporting, as usual, through its parent...
07.31.2008		HD War Update—Channels and 1080p Skirmishing over high definition television (HDTV) continued this week with the news that DirecTV and DISH Network would be offering content to subscribers in the 1080 progressive (p) format. Those announcements came on top of news that the direct broadcast...
07.28.2008		IMS Gets More Real An IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) vendor matrix released this week from ABI Research put Ericsson at the top, with the total number of deals being a strong driver. Based on a report completed in January, the matrix is a rearview-mirror look at IMS business...
07.24.2008		Canada Stirs Wireless Pot Ottawa's eight-week long auction of 282 spectrum licenses for advanced wireless services (AWS) generated lots of Canadian dollars - nearly $4.3 billion - and plenty of market disruption. Investors ran faster than expected. Bids for the variously sized (5 MHz...
07.21.2008		Multi-Wavelength Standard? A standardization effort announced at Cable-Tec Expo is aiming for improved performance in optical signal transmission. Led by ARRIS and Cisco, the joint proposal for technical criteria supporting multi-wavelength optical networks leverages the two companies'...
07.17.2008		MediaHawks, BlackArrow, Personal Apps Video on demand (VOD) news over the past several weeks includes purchases, integration and new applications. Concurrent Computer last week announced a $2 million order from Time Warner Cable for VOD systems destined for deployment in the MSO's San Diego and...
07.14.2008		Battery Alert WooshCom Corp. has sold Time Warner Cable and Bresnan Communications on a battery kit designed to extend the life of Motorola IRT-1000 and IRT-2000 receiver/modulators. Together, these MSOs will save approximately $3.5 million through their purchases; total...
07.10.2008		GIS Targets Operations and Opportunities Geographical information systems (GISs) have entered the mainstream, popping up everywhere from car navigation systems to cell phones. In the cable industry, GIS also is growing in popularity - as a tool for improved customer service and network reliability...
07.07.2008		DOCSIS - Where Do We Go From Here? This year's lineup of engineering workshops presented at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo included presentations by two of the industry's sharpest technology minds: ARRIS Chief Strategy Officer Tom Cloonan and Cisco Systems Cisco Fellow and Chief Architect, Cable Business...
07.03.2008		Ethernet Forum Studies Cases The Metro Ethernet Forum workshop last week in Philadelphia in conjunction with Cable-Tec Expo included talk of MEF certification, cell backhaul, overcoming technical hurdles - and case studies. The case studies came from Time Warner Cable Senior Product...
06.30.2008		Cooperate and Coordinate for the Great Analog Turn-Off As with most things in life, the devil is in the details for the broadcast digital TV transition. Without communication and cooperation between operators and broadcasters, cable subscribers could have TV sets that do go dark. "Feb. 17 will be a scotch...
06.26.2008		SDV: Find the Right Mix Switched digital video (SDV) promises bandwidth savings for operators, but they must go beyond the how and why of the technology to strike a delicate balance. "Trying to design SDV becomes a tradeoff between balancing supply and demand," said...
06.26.2008		Interactive TV and Advanced Advertising: Enriching the customer viewing experience through interactivity was the focus of this session on Interactive Television and Advanced Advertising presented by Steven Riedl, principal architect, Time Warner Cable, and Roy Hasson, customer solutions architect...
06.26.2008		Time Warner Region Honored The top engineer for Time Warner Cable Carolina Region accepted this year’s System of the Year Award at Wednesday’s luncheon. The Carolina Region impressed the Communications Technology editorial team with its with its continuous push to improve...
06.25.2008		Stottler Named SCTE Member of the Year Acknowledged for having "a lot of heart," a surprised Brenda Stottler, regional manager, ARRIS, took home the SCTE Member of the Year Award yesterday. Following the litany of honors that is the annual Awards Luncheon and a mouth-watering speech by...
06.25.2008		CEOs: Cable Recession Resistant The issues laid on the CEOs table yesterday morning were less about technological advances and more about the economy, customer satisfaction, competition and cooperation. While the U.S. housing market has been replaced somewhat in the news by the rising gas...
06.25.2008		SCTE's CTO Panel Analog reclamation was an area of particular focus for Expo's CEO panel, which discussed various challenges and opportunities among the industries involved, including content providers, broadcasters, as well as U.S. and European cable operators. Tony Werner...
06.24.2008		Mobility is the Word for L&D Combine the near ubiquity of mobile devices with a generation of workers more apt to text than talk, and what arises is a need to leverage this desired mobility for training. Hence the focus of this year's Conference on Broadband Learning and Development, and...
06.24.2008		OCAP Challenges, Progress The cable industry is a buzz with interactive advertising, and central to this development is the evolution of OpenCable architecture (as it's known within cable) and tru2way (as it's known from a consumer perspective). The success of this initiative is...
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