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| 09.29.2008 |
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FTTH on the Rise
Fiber to the home (FTTH) is on the rise in North America with an annual growth rate of 76 percent, according to a study released by the FTTH Council, which held its annual Conference and Expo last week in Nashville. Moreover, the take rate for FTTH services...
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| 09.25.2008 |
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Advanced Ads Advance, Again
This year's Primetime Emmy Awards winners, honored in a two-hour ceremony last Sunday, included an on-demand program that is leveraging technology relevant to the cable industry's advanced advertising initiative. As it happens, a meeting this week of the SCTE...
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| 09.23.2008 |
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DTV: Not All Sweetness and Light
Now that the Wilmington, NC, digital TV transition test for over-the-air broadcast has been successfully completed, all should be smooth sailing for the full switch in February, right? Perhaps not. It seems things in Hunterdon County, NJ, are not going so...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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Smaller Ops Thinking about SMBs
It's no secret that all of the major cable operators intend to stake a claim in the business services market. Cox Communications CEO Pat Esser, for example, has predicted commercial services will deliver $1 billion for his company in 2010. Opportunities also...
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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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| 09.02.2008 |
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Ethernet Testing—More Standardization Needed
As metro Ethernet continues to build momentum, particularly as a way to attract the small to medium sized business (SMB) market, testing tools - both for service provisioning and measurement - are evolving. (For more on Ethernet testing for the SMB market...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Bullpen: Dumb Pipe vs. Dumb Monitor
Building the perfect TV experience has long evaded the consumer electronics (CE) industry and providers of video services alike. There always seems to be one piece missing. For video service providers - whether cable, satellite, or telco - the missing piece...
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| 08.22.2008 |
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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...
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| 08.15.2008 |
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CWA Ranks State-by-State Internet Speeds
The Communications Workers of America Speed Matters blog published a state-by-state report on download speeds this week, with Rhode Island (6.8 Mbps), Delaware (6.7 Mbps) and New Jersey (5.8 Mbps) taking the top three spots. The results are based on 229,000...
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| 08.14.2008 |
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Study: Slow but Steady Growth in Cable Ad Dollars
SNL Kagan's 2008 edition of "Economics of Basic Cable Networks" predicts slow but steady growth for cable ad revenue over the next 10 years. Some highlights from the study: · Total industry multichannel subscribers are expected to grow 1.3 percent...
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| 08.11.2008 |
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Advanced Advertising Accelerates
Specifications developed by the digital program insertion (DPI) working group of the SCTE digital video subcommittee (DVS) have passed into the realm of standards. Last week's announcement that the SCTE Engineering Committee had approved the first half of the...
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| 08.07.2008 |
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Social Networking Across Devices
The term "social networking" is cropping up everywhere these days as companies try to tap into and leverage the phenomenon of creating virtual communities of friends and family and the enthusiasm of the digital generation for texting, blogs and...
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| 08.04.2008 |
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Earnings Highlights—Voice and Business
A quick review of the "C" companies whose earnings were reported over the past week indicates that telephony and business services continue to be key growth drivers. Numbers from CableOne point to telephony. Reporting, as usual, through its parent...
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| 07.31.2008 |
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HD War Update—Channels and 1080p
Skirmishing over high definition television (HDTV) continued this week with the news that DirecTV and DISH Network would be offering content to subscribers in the 1080 progressive (p) format. Those announcements came on top of news that the direct broadcast...
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| 07.29.2008 |
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Telephony Drives Business
Interested parties have long waxed poetic about the business services market. But there was nothing fanciful about this week's prediction from Cox Communications CEO Pat Esser that commercial services will deliver $1 billion in revenue for Cox in 2010. With...
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| 07.28.2008 |
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IMS Gets More Real
An IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) vendor matrix released this week from ABI Research put Ericsson at the top, with the total number of deals being a strong driver. Based on a report completed in January, the matrix is a rearview-mirror look at IMS business...
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| 07.24.2008 |
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Canada Stirs Wireless Pot
Ottawa's eight-week long auction of 282 spectrum licenses for advanced wireless services (AWS) generated lots of Canadian dollars - nearly $4.3 billion - and plenty of market disruption. Investors ran faster than expected. Bids for the variously sized (5 MHz...
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| 07.17.2008 |
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MediaHawks, BlackArrow, Personal Apps
Video on demand (VOD) news over the past several weeks includes purchases, integration and new applications. Concurrent Computer last week announced a $2 million order from Time Warner Cable for VOD systems destined for deployment in the MSO's San Diego and...
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| 07.14.2008 |
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Battery Alert
WooshCom Corp. has sold Time Warner Cable and Bresnan Communications on a battery kit designed to extend the life of Motorola IRT-1000 and IRT-2000 receiver/modulators. Together, these MSOs will save approximately $3.5 million through their purchases; total...
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| 07.08.2008 |
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Millennials: Not your Father's Generation
Have a need for new hires to help with all of the products and services coming online? No worries! The children of Baby Boomers are entering the workforce, and they are estimated to be 75 million strong. Who are these youngsters? They are the Millennials...
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