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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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| 06.10.2008 |
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Project Canoe Cuts Out Middleman
News Briefing for Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Canoe Ventures, the top cable operators’ company that will promote their Project Canoe targeted TV advertising platform, will sell its technology directly to programmers instead of to go-between marketers. [Wall...
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| 06.06.2008 |
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Time Warner, NBCU Duel for Weather
News Briefing for Friday, June 6, 2008 Estranged Cable360 tipster Brain Clark told media outlets that “the decision to reunite with him was Cable360’s alone to make.” Happy Friday. Time Warner is taking care to bid cautiously for The Weather...
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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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| 05.28.2008 |
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Set-Tops Begin Long Goodbye
News Briefing for Wednesday, May 28, 2008 The Cable360 newsroom is down to its last While You Were Out pad. It's the end of an era. Happy Wednesday. Sony’s deal with cable operators Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Charter, Cablevision and Bright House...
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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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| 05.08.2008 |
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Rising Profits for News Corp
News Briefing for Thursday, May 8, 2008 Media companies continue to post impressive quarterly earnings numbers. The latest is News Corp., which reported increased profits for its fiscal third quarter. Operating profit at News Corp.’s TV division was up...
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| 05.07.2008 |
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Sprint, Clearwire, Cable Ops Embark on High-Speed Wireless Venture
News Briefing for Wednesday, May 7, 2008 A consortium including Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Clearwire announced a plan to build a national wireless network that will deliver video and...
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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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| 05.01.2008 |
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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...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Steady Q1 For Comcast
NEWS BRIEFING FOR THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008 Down by 5 with 2 minutes to go and they win; that’s why they’re called Wizards. Good day. Investors should avoid screaming May Day, May Day after reading Comcast’s Q1 earnings report, an analyst...
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| 04.24.2008 |
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Cable's Quad Play at Crossroads
News Briefing for Thursday, April 24, 2008 Cable’s “Pivot” wireless joint venture with Sprint has officially ended, long after the service stopped being marketed. The dream of offering a quad play seems very far off, and might have been just...
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| 04.22.2008 |
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iPhone Lifts AT&T's Q1
News Briefing for Tuesday, April 22, 2008 The Cable360 newsroom's beer and bowling event last night proved catastrophic, as staffers strained back muscles from too much working class posing. Good day. Sales of mobile handsets, including Apple’s iPhone...
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| 04.07.2008 |
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Apple Shares Rise on Next-Gen iPhone Expectations
News briefing for Monday, April 7, 2008 The next generation of Apple’s iPhone is expected to arrive in about two months, and with it will come another wave of media echoings, just like this one. Last year’s favorite gadget could become this...
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| 04.05.2008 |
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Weekend Update: Deal or No Deal
NEWS UPDATE FOR WEEKEND OF APRIL 5-6, 2008 Must Read Deal or no deal? That’s what Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer told Yahoo’s board Saturday, promising that if Yahoo didn’t act within 21 days on Microsoft’s acquisition offer the...
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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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| 03.28.2008 |
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British Invasion of The Web
NEWS BRIEFING FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008 Members of the 360 newsroom are gleefully hording peanuts and Cracker Jack. Good morning. The British are coming! The British are coming! At least the BBC is, The Wall St Journal says as it reports on feisty chief exec...
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| 03.27.2008 |
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Comcast and BitTorrent Make Nice
News briefing for Thursday, March 27, 2008 Cable360 tipster Brain Clark has warned us that he is being courted by a certain social media technology company in Silicon Valley. Brain can expect an extra twenty from us in his envelope this month. TODAY'S MUST...
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