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| 11.21.2011 |
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Amdocs Survey Highlights Churn
A survey conducted by Informa Telecoms and Media for Amdocs found that 66 percent of operators believe customers are less loyal today than they were two years ago, and 70 percent of service providers cite customer retention and loyalty as the critical factor...
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| 09.07.2011 |
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Entertainment ID Registry Gains Momentum
Some leading entertainment companies have begun integrating the use of the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) IDs into their digital distribution workflows. EIDR was created by MovieLabs, CableLabs, Comcast and Rovi Corporation as a uniform approach to...
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| 09.02.2011 |
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Time Warner Cable's Research Program Issues 3 Reports
As part of its Research Program on Digital Communications, Time Warner Cable released reports on three topics: the Internet, smart grids and social networks. The reports released today are: Remaking the Internet: Taking Network Architecture to the Next Level...
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| 08.18.2011 |
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Comcast Holds Internal 'Science Fairs' to Develop New Products
Comcast is touting the work of its Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) team and its quarterly CIM Lab Weeks. The CIM team developed the Xfinity TV app and is playing a role in "helping Comcast transform television as we know it, and helping our customers...
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| 05.09.2011 |
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Unicorn Supports Adobe's HTTP Dynamic Streaming
Unicorn Media is enabling its patented technology platform, Unicorn Once, for Adobe's HTTP Dynamic Streaming Protocol. Unicorn Media is a digital media management provider founded by Limelight Networks founding CEO, Bill Rinehart. Unicorn Once fully supports...
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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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| 02.01.2010 |
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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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| 11.03.2009 |
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SPATIALinfo Demos Map Tool
At last week’s Cable-Tec Expo, SPATIALinfo’s demonstrated its spatialOFFLINE, which is able to display network...
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| 08.20.2009 |
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T&M Trends Update
It's no secret that these are challenging times for the cable industry. While MSOs remain somewhat recession-proof (click here for recent Comcast revenue growth) they face increasing competition from satellite, IPTV and other video providers. For testing and...
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| 07.01.2009 |
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Redefining MTTR
A comprehensive and consistent approach to mean-time-to-repair helps keep things running smoothly....
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| 07.01.2009 |
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Space Weather
It sounds like the product of some sci-fi writer’s imagination. But it’s real....
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| 06.01.2009 |
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Broadband: It's a 'Green' Thing
In the business we call cable, it's all too easy to get caught up in our day-to-day jobs with little time to be concerned about just how the things we're doing and the equipment we're using might affect the bigger world around us. Indeed, for a long time...
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| 06.01.2009 |
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Bullpen: VOD Operation Followup
The "VOD: Care and Feeding" article in CT's December 2008 issue (available online at http://www.cable360.net/ct/operations/bestpractices/32737.html) generated a lot of interest and followup questions. Several of the most frequent will be answered...
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| 06.01.2009 |
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High-Speed Internet Woes
Sometimes 'high-speed' isn't, and the problem can be anywhere between the sub and the Internet itself....
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| 05.01.2009 |
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Broadband: Signal Leakage in an All-Digital Network: The Continuing Story
Judging from the feedback to my February column on leakage issues in all-digital networks, this is a topic that's clearly quite important to the industry. One point made by many of those who shared their comments had to do with keeping ingress under control...
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| 05.01.2009 |
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QAM Signals on Spectrum Analyzers
When viewed on a spectrum analyzer, QAM channel levels often look a lot lower than they actually are. What gives?...
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| 04.01.2009 |
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Broadband: Another Look at Upstream 64-QAM
My April 2007 column highlighted the efforts of Midcontinent Communications, a Midwestern cable operator, to deploy upstream 64-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) in a half-dozen nodes (www.cable360.net/ct/operations/bestpractices/22839.html). As of late...
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| 04.01.2009 |
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Reality Check: Back to the Basics
A few years back, I was working for the engineering division of a large Canadian MSO that operated cable systems in both Canada and the United States. One of my duties was performing system technical audits - Canadian BP 23 testing of the Canadian systems and...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Broadband: Report Card: Making the HDTV Plunge
After putting it off for several years, I finally joined the slightly more than one-third of Americans who have already done so, and got a high definition TV (HDTV) set for home use. I had all sorts of excuses for putting this off, among them cost, a 15...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Leakage in an All-Digital World
Leakage detection gear is analog. All-digital signals are, well, digital. Where and how do the twain meet?...
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