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11.01.2008		Video over DOCSIS Why are cable operators considering Internet protocol (IP) video and IPTV as ways to supplement their current digital video delivery? The simple answer is more content sources and more device destinations, as illustrated in Figure 1. In a world of more...
10.01.2008		MDU Update: The multiple dwelling unit (MDU) market is firing up, sparked by competitive pressure on service providers to deliver a widening array of video, voice, data and wireless services to the burgeoning, and rapidly changing, market. And it's a market hungry for...
09.01.2008		Back Office, Front Burner Imagine having a dream. One of your subscribers is sitting at an airport waiting for a delayed flight. She pulls out a PDA and logs on to her cable email account using the local wireless network, logging on using her email user name. She reads an email from...
08.22.2008		Bandwidth Model Finds Good Fit Bandwidth—understood as spectrum on a cable plant—has been the topic of the past year, or two or more. How much is enough and what is the best way to get it? High-stakes questions, but it takes a mind-numbing variety of if-then scenarios to...
08.01.2008		Ethernet Over DOCSIS Cable operators are seeing more and more competition from the telco incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) as those companies start to notice that cable is no longer only a residential video and data play. Cable is looking to move up-market from the...
08.01.2008		How to Succeed in Business It's no secret that many operators are eyeing the small to medium business (SMB) sector as an alluring opportunity for growth in a non-traditional segment, but many potential new entrants are just learning about the splintered and disorganized nature of this...
07.01.2008		Converge Services, Grow Revenue By any measure, multi-play bundles have been a huge hit in the market. In fact, the Yankee Group has estimated that by the end of 2007 nearly 76 percent of consumers had purchased multiple services from a single provider. While the initial phase of offering a...
06.01.2008		Cable and Telemedicine Success is linked to opportunities. That is certainly the case with business services. The proliferation of cellular towers presented one initial and much talked-about opportunity to cable operators. Cell backhaul could remain a wise move, since demand will...
06.01.2008		O Band WDM Today it's all about bandwidth per subscriber. Cable operators need ever more so they can continue to offer customers the sophisticated services needed to stay ahead of increasingly aggressive competition. Given the rapid adoption of high definition TV...
05.01.2008		Digital Ad Overlays Though advertising has long been a money-maker for cable, the growth of ad sales has not been particularly quick, despite the urgency operators feel to increase revenues. The positioning of new and existing technologies promises to help operators expand this...
04.01.2008		Cable and Hotels Cable has embraced the digital and high-definition TV (HDTV) revolutions in the residential cable market. Most major cable operators have already launched all-digital offerings with as many HD channels as their available bandwidth permits. Now the digital and...
02.01.2008		Packet Technologies for Business Services As cable turns to business services as the next big source for growth, the industry is faced with identifying the right technologies and reference architectures to deliver private networking services for voice, data and video business applications. Because...
12.12.2007		A Strategy for Business Services With President of Comcast Business Services, Bill Stemper How can cable compete with the telcos in the business services market? On Oct. 18, vendors and operators gathered in Atlanta for the SCTE Hot Topic Symposium on Business...
12.01.2007		Cellular Backhaul A cable operator's pervasive HFC network is often located near cellular base stations. That makes is natural to consider offering cellular backhaul services. However, plant facilities are not always within reach or cost-effective enough to connect to cellular...
12.01.2007		Home Networking A major challenge faced by cable operators and other service providers is how to ferry signals around homes crammed with more - and increasingly sophisticated and throughput hungry - networked electronic equipment. Several groups are working on this issue...
11.01.2007		Telephony: SIP Trunking as a Business Service In a recent training session on business voice systems that I conducted for a group of cable technicians, one of the participants asked whether Internet protocol (IP) private branch exchanges (PBXs) would connect to a cable company’s network differently...
10.01.2007		Telephony: Where Cable Business Telephony Meets the Customer If the past couple of columns stimulated some thoughts on why cable wants to get into business voice telephony and the differences in business communications equipment, this column should keep your neurons flashing. We're going to review actual cable operator...
09.21.2007		Bresnan Trials Wi-FI Billings, Mont. is a nice place to live, a good-sized city with a small-town feel. Heck, you can even play golf on a nice day in January. Of course, Billings is not one of the much-ballyhooed NFL Cities so it has every chance of being on the wrong side of the...
09.01.2007		Geographical Information Systems Enterprise geographic information system (GIS) solutions and applications have been on the table for many years. The Broadband GIS Leadership Forum (www.broadbandgis.org) has tried, with mixed success, to solve industry issues by employing and utilizing GIS...
09.01.2007		Digital Program Insertion Local ad insertion has long been a method used by TV networks and service providers of all stripes to supplement revenues. It allows them to combine national programming with local advertising, thus profiting from airing commercials for local businesses. The...
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