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| 02.01.2010 |
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SCTE Goes Green with SEMI
The SCTE formally unveiled an initiative today aimed at helping cable operators take advantage of “green” technologies and procedures. Dubbed the Smart Energy Management Initiative (SEMI), the effort builds upon momentum generated from activities...
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| 01.20.2009 |
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SCTE Canadian Summit
Who the heck goes to Canada in February? The SCTE, apparently. The Society's Canadian Summit is scheduled for Feb. 3-4 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Ontario. Asked about the event's timing, SCTE VP of Marketing and Business Development Deb Swann simply...
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| 01.13.2009 |
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CES Wrapup: The View from Vegas
Company execs at last week's 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were anxious to make it clear they know that 21st century digital consumers want content anywhere on any device. For starters, just prior to the opening of CES, Cisco's big...
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| 01.06.2009 |
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How to Harden CA and Become Less Insecure
With confidence in conditional access (CA) technology on the wane after publicized exposures of satellite TV smart cards, one vendor is touting an approach that promises to protect existing CA. The technology could even revive the cable industry's stalled...
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| 12.23.2008 |
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Fiber Gets Real Character
There's a fiber-optic star hanging over the industry at year's end. The task of characterizing this promising light requires not wisdom (or wise men) but technical competence and sharp instruments. The promise of optical transport builds upon five years of...
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| 12.16.2008 |
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Cox Realigns Leadership
A week ago, Cox Communications announced the appointment of Leo Brennan to chief operations officer, effective Jan 1. Additional personnel news then emerged, including the planned retirement of Cox SVP and CTO Chris Bowick. As reported last Thursday by our...
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| 12.09.2008 |
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Online Video Viewership Explodes
Cable viewers are watching large amounts of online video, even twice as much as video on demand (VOD), according to a recent survey. "Video views exploded across the industry," writes Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform and SVP, content publishing, for...
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| 12.02.2008 |
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Rogers Communications Founder Remembered
The Board of Directors of Rogers Communications has announced the death of company founder, Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers. He was 75. "We wish to express our deepest sympathy to Loretta and all of the Rogers family for this loss," said Alan...
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| 11.25.2008 |
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Leakage Revisited
Twenty-five years ago, with regulators and the cable industry struggling to agree on an acceptable use of the aeronautical band, signal leakage was a very hot topic. The rules that emerged from those days turned leakage into what editors call an...
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| 11.18.2008 |
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CEA Gears Up for Vegas Show
Despite the downturn in the economy, the Consumer Electronics Association says pre-registration is "very strong" for the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will take place in Las Vegas, Jan. 8-11. There will be more than 2,700...
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| 11.11.2008 |
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Suddenlink Mixes, Matches VOD Components
Suddenlink Communications launched VOD service last month in 23 of its markets in southwestern Texas. The deployment combines VOD components from two different vendors and is arrayed in a centralized architecture. "This fundamentally came about as a...
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| 11.04.2008 |
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Ethernet Reaches Cellular Backhaul
On this election day, Ethernet might not be as hot a topic as the economy, taxation and Joe the plumber, but among cable operators, the technology is making headlines more frequently as talk turns into action on the commercial services front. As Ethernet has...
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| 10.28.2008 |
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EOD: Bringing Ethernet Everywhere
While cable operators are interested in serving the small-to-medium business (SMB) market and providing alternatives to legacy layer two services, fiber builds can be costly and impractical. Looking for ways to leverage their existing HFC infrastructure, they...
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| 10.21.2008 |
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Profile: Larry LaFreniere
Fiber Rings in West Texas Larry LaFreniere Title: VP of engineering and technical operations, West Region, Suddenlink Communications Broadband Background: LaFreniere has more than 30 years of engineering and operations leadership experience across a broad...
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| 10.21.2008 |
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Interactive Spring
Interactive TV is one season ahead of us, as the thaw continues apace....
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| 10.14.2008 |
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DNS Companies Address Cache Poisoning, Phishing
Catching a buzz about cache poisoning and phishing scams....
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| 10.07.2008 |
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WiMAX Trickling into Small Ops Space
The emergence of WiMAX is prompting the small, independent cable community to explore its use as a new revenue source....
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| 09.30.2008 |
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Dr. Richard Green and the Road Taken
Last week Dr. Richard Green let the CableLabs Executive Committee know that when his contact as president and CEO expires in December 2009, he'll retire. That gives us nearly enough time - 15 months - to sing his praises and review his two decades of...
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| 09.23.2008 |
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DTV: Not All Sweetness and Light
All should be smooth sailing for the full switch in February, right?...
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| 09.16.2008 |
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DOCSIS 3.0 Silicon and Beyond
Texas Instruments is at IBC in Amsterdam this week showing off a Swiss-Army knife style, DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem chipset. The latest in TI's Puma 5 family of DOCSIS 3.0 products, the TNETC4840 increases the number of downstream channels available for bonding...
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