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| 03.17.2010 |
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Demand Grows for Digital Testing
By any number of indicators, interest in digital video (and audio) test and monitoring tools is growing. Companies focused entirely on providing such solutions are touting strong growth that flies in the face of the economic downturn. Some traditional test...
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| 03.16.2010 |
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Comcast to Deliver Masters Live in 3D
Augusta National Golf Club and Comcast have announced a partnership to deliver the Masters Tournament in 3D to U.S. homes. Consumers with new 3D TVs and 3D-enabled PCs will be able to watch the Masters live in 3D from April 7-11. The 2010 Masters will be...
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| 03.12.2010 |
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Optimum Lights Verticals
Optimum Lightpath may have an easier time in developing vertical businesses for its Ethernet service, given the population density of its footprint. Like its parent company, Cablevision, Optimum Lightpath covers the New York metropolitan area. The company...
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| 03.09.2010 |
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Cisco's Next-Gen Architecture Focuses on Video, 100 Gig
Cisco today announced its CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) as the foundation of its next-generation Internet architecture, focusing on video and on speed. "Video is the killer app," said John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, in a...
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| 03.08.2010 |
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Ops Bank on EBIF for Ad Revenues
The funniest story at last week's EBIF day of the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco was told by Chris Faw, SVP of operations at Time Warner Cable. He had checked into his hotel and asked the concierge for restaurant recommendations. The hotel man...
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| 03.05.2010 |
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YouTube Talks Change to Cable
At yesterday’s Cable Congress in Brussels, an executive for Google-owned YouTube flew the banner of social media but said there were several obstacles to expanding YouTube’s presence on the TV set. Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) Director of...
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| 03.04.2010 |
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TVs Not Connected to Internet en Masse
At last week's NCTC Winter Educational Conference in Long Beach, CA, a group of panelists discussed technology trends. One big trend is that more devices are being connected to the Internet. "What consumer electronics item is built without an IP...
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| 03.03.2010 |
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Fries Touts Gateway, Discounts OTT
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, speaking at the opening session of Cable Congress 2010 in Brussels, said his company was planning to deploy an IP-based home gateway “sometime next year.” The Europe-focused super MSO is riding favorable cost curves...
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| 03.03.2010 |
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KDG and Comcast Talk Speed
A panel today at Cable Congress in Brussels, featuring the CTOs from Kable Deutschland and Comcast, headlined high-speed data. The question, as ever, is just how fast? Kabel Deutschland CTO Lorenz Glatz several times pointed to the “theoretical”...
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| 03.02.2010 |
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Broadcom SoCs Drop Costs
Earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Broadcom rolled out a number of new System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs that promise to shrink cable modems and voice gateways, and lower the cost of reclaiming analog bandwidth. On the data front, the BCM 3382...
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| 03.01.2010 |
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Comcast: Headends Getting Too Crowded
CMAP is all about saving space, according to Jorge Salinger, VP access architecture, office of the CTO, Comcast, at an event in Denver last week. Of course, saving space occupied by expensive telecommunications equipment translates into saving money, too...
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| 02.25.2010 |
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IEEE Launches EPON Interop Project
The IEEE Standards Association officially began work this month on project P1904.1, Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON). Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, the P1904.1 working group (WG) held its inaugural meeting...
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| 02.24.2010 |
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Panel Talks Policy, New Users and IPv6
The transition to IPv6 and the network planning needed to accomplish it is underway, and the new users that will embrace the enhanced Internet are the industry’s future customers. At least that’s the idea. Panelists during the final session...
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| 02.24.2010 |
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Operators Need Harry Potter Kids
For the lunch speech at yesterday’s NCTC Winter Educational Conference, Steve Collier, VP of business development with Milsoft Utility Solutions, entertained and frightened attendees with his assessment of where communications technology is going. The...
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| 02.23.2010 |
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Mediacom Earns with Local Loop
At the opening session of the NCTC’s Winter Educational Conference yesterday in Long Beach, CA, two executives from Mediacom Communications shared lessons on using fiber for wholesale and business-class services. Dominick DePaola, senior director of...
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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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| 02.22.2010 |
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Comcast Subs Can Track Internet Usage
Comcast has begun offering Internet usage meters to customers across its footprint. In December 2009, Comcast offered Internet usage meters to some of its customers in its Portland, OR, system on a trial basis. That trial was expanded to Seattle in January...
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| 02.22.2010 |
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XCast Expands EMTA Provisioning
XCast Labs announced automatic provisioning capability for the full line of ARRIS embedded multi-media terminal adapters (EMTAs). The voice over IP (VoIP) specialist also announced that New York City-based Private Network Cable (PNC) Television has selected...
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| 02.18.2010 |
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Wireless Gets a Little Stimulus
The government continues to dole out stimulus money in batches, announcing yesterday the selection of 11 more broadband infrastructure projects in nine states. Funding for the projects is being provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
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| 02.17.2010 |
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Fed Releases Internet Use Report
As part of the government’s research in preparation for its National Broadband Plan, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released a report about broadband usage in the United States. The report is entitled...
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