Bullpen: Leveraging Broadband Forum Standards
The cable community has come to rely upon CableLabs-based specifications. In many cases, CableLabs specifies the operation of customer devices, including the headend-based provisioning of these devices. Spanning all edges of the cable network, this model has helped contain the overall costs associated with new service and product rollouts to customers. However, cable has expanded its access network...
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REGULATION
The battle over Comcast's bandwidth management is heating up in federal court and could determine the future of the Internet. But are consumers in this epic story under threat or simply the precious metal that everyone wants to mine?...
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The end of the year always brings retrans and carriage negotiation strife. But with the fights spewing talking points as old as the industry itself, could these hard-nosed negotiating tactics lead to blowback from consumers—and even from Washington?...
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DEALS/FINANCE
In this age of skyrocketing data throughput demands and stiff competition, building your own backbone has its advantages....
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When 3 Northern MN communities about a year ago decided not to continue operating their municipal cable system, they asked Mediacom to step in. The outdated systems, which have about 500 subs in Taconite...
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AFFILIATES
HIV/AIDS is growing fast in the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, the Latino community. Cable Positive is trying to help slow that growth....
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 CableFAX Daily Executive Editor Michael Grebb sat down with IFC evp/gm Jen Caserta, who recently took...
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ADVANCED SERVICES
Operators are angling for customers, coping with traffic and looking at alternative business models. Mobile advertising waits in the wings...
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Guest columnist Peter Shapiro of PDS Consulting sees speed bumps and congestion on the way to the third video screen....
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OPERATORS/
MSOS
Separable security has won no popularity contests, but the experiment has generated changes, such as the...
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Among several trends impacting the access architecture over the past few years has been an increase in the...
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MARKETING
Social networking: Who is doing it right? How can the cable industry best get in the game? Karen Ramspacher, 2010 CTAM Research + Insights Conference co-chair, caught up with Misiek Piskorski, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, to learn how his research has progressed to helping companies create successful social strategies....
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As cable industry marketers increasingly look to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, brand marketers attending the recent CMO Leadership Forum in NYC traded advice and war stories about how to use these vital tools—and interestingly enough, how not to use them....
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