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| 08.25.2008 |
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End Approaching for Set-Top?
The demise of the set-top box has been forecasted at least since the initial talk of an integrated digital television set (IDTV) (see here for one early discussion and the arrival of CableCARD IDTVs in the U.S. market in 2004. IMS Research now is predicting...
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| 08.22.2008 |
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Comcast Plans Widget Tests
Comcast is working with Intel Corp to bring Internet protocol (IP)-based, interactive applications to the television screen. The technology, previewed at...
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| 08.18.2008 |
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Arbor Issues IPv6 Study
Arbor Networks published results of a 12-month research project on global Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) traffic on the Internet. A provider security and network managements solutions, Arbor worked with more than ninety network services and content providers...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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Reality Check: Flavors of PONs
This article describes the different types of passive optical networks (PONs) and what they do. A PON is an optical network from the headend all the way to the home. It implies a shared network, usually with passive optical splitting in the field. Several...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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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...
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| 05.20.2008 |
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Any Stream to any Screen Gaining Momentum
Moving video content to multiple devices is emerging as a must-do business model for cable operators and content providers alike, but pesky technical challenges, along with some serious back office and rights management issues, are slowing its progress. That...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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IPTV Strategy
As befits an emerging technology, Internet protocol TV (IPTV) is hard to nail down. The total estimated number of international subscribers is a matter of educated guesses. Standard definitions of terms are missing. Some analysts, for instance, exclude...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Cable's Wireless Options
One of the classic questions new marketing students are taught to ask is, "What business are we in?" The answer often used by instructors as an example that shows how to survive and dominate in your market is one given by a circa 1950s AT&T CEO...
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| 04.02.2008 |
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Sprint Revs XOHM
The cable industry’s sometimes partner Sprint announced at CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas a raft of additional partners and initiatives involved in the development of its WiMAX network service, called XOHM. They include the following...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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DOCSIS 3.0
For DOCSIS 3.0, sorting out roadmap from implementation is not a trivial task. The spec's feature set provides tools for both future-proofing the network and countering competition. Implementation timing, however, is a separate issue, dependent upon the...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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A Proposal for DOCSIS 4.0:
Passive optical networks (PONs) are rapidly evolving and will eventually replace traditional wireline access technologies. Optical line additions already outpace digital subscriber line (DSL) line additions, and by 2010 there will be an estimated 35-50...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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HDTV: The Good, The Bad
and The Ugly
It may smack of heresy to suggest that high-definition TV (HDTV) is anything but beautiful. But as mesmerizing as those highly defined pixels are, there are other sides to the HD phenomenon. With apologies to anyone associated with the 1966 spaghetti Western...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Coax-Based Home Networks – MoCA Makes Its Bid
MoCA claims it’s ready for prime time and that prime time is now. MoCA is the acronym for the Multimedia over Coax Alliance and also designates the technology advocated by the group. At its first Technology Conference and Open House in Austin, TX, the...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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RFoG for Business Services
The HFC architecture is remarkably nimble; a cable operator can create additional bandwidth in many ways. Regardless of the selection path for finding the RF spectrum, leveraging DOCSIS 3.0 over HFC may make strong economic sense to the cable operator for...
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| 12.07.2007 |
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Macrovision to Buy Gemstar-TV Guide
Macrovision agreed to buy Gemstar-TV Guide in a deal valued at $2.8 billion. According to CableFAX Daily, the two companies said that the...
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| 11.19.2007 |
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Danish Op Bypasses CMTS for IPTV
The Danish A+ Group will use GoBackTV's GigaQAM IP to offer IPTV services, according to Menlo Park CA-based GoBackTV. "The GoBackTV CMTS-Bypass solution allows us to extend our FastTV...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Cable-Style IPTV
YouTube, AppleTV, ABC.COM, Cinemanow, Movielink, Amazon, unbox and the list goes on. Look at the growing numbers of players in the Internet video space. Believe the recent statistics on video viewed over the Internet. Internet TV has arrived. A comScore...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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SDV Troubleshooting
Switched digital video (SDV) is a hot topic these days, with many North American cable operators either deploying the technology or getting ready to do so in the next few months. Less extensively explored has been the question of how to gain overall...
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| 10.03.2007 |
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DOCSIS 3.0 Q&A: Peter Percosan
Peter Percosan Title: Executive Director, Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments Digital Connected Home Background: Persosan has been strategy director since TI's acquisition of Libit Signal Processing in 1999. At Libit, he had served as VP strategy and...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Alloptic Q&A
The cable industry has a curious relationship with coaxial cable. For years, it represented the key advantage operators held over telcos. More recently Verizon, AT&T and other small telcos have moved beyond their low-capacity copper and begun leapfrogging...
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