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11.01.2008		Internet Speed Testers A growing collection of tools is available on the Internet to evaluate the speed and performance of broadband Internet service providers (ISPs). Commonly referred to as speed testers, these tools are intended to provide an objective measure of the performance...
10.06.2008		Broadband Census, Review and Forecast Congress passed a bill last week - amidst various macroeconomic distractions - that directs the FCC to provide policymakers with better and "annual" as opposed to merely "regular" information about the diffusion of high-speed data...
10.01.2008		Reality Check: Speed Testers - Your Mileage May Vary Just how fast is my broadband connection, really? Is my neighbor getting better performance than I am? Should I switch service providers? It used to be faster; didn't it used to be faster? In truth, I pay little attention to all of this broadband speed talk...
09.16.2008		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...
06.05.2008		Comcast Tests, IETF Talks, Lawyers Sue Comcast this week publicized plans to test new data network management techniques in three separate trials. Two of those tests, in Chambersburg, PA, and Warrenton, VA, began today (June 5). "Back at the end of March with BitTorrent, we talked about...
05.02.2008		Charter Ups Internet Speeds in Georgia Charter Communications is launching its Charter High-Speed Internet Max service, with download speeds of up to 16 Mbps. The service is available to...
05.01.2008		TWC Reaches 8 Mil HSD Customers Time Warner Cable reached 8 million residential high-speed data customers in April. This announcement came as the...
12.15.2007		JOE SELVAGE Joe Selvage is vice president of IP Networks for Mediacom. He and his team have been building out the Mediacom OneNet backbone network for the past four years. The OneNet backbone today carries voice, video, and data for 80 percent of the MSO's subscriber...
12.15.2007		JOHN DAHLQUIST John Dahlquist is vice president of marketing for Aurora Networks. His 40 years of experience in broadband communications products and services include senior positions at Harmonic, Philips Broadband Networks and General Instrument. What has been driving...
12.15.2007		JOHN SCHANZ John Schanz, Comcast executive vice president for National Engineering and Technology Operations, joined Comcast in early 2006. He had previously served as EVP network and data operations for AOL. Any surprises or notable achievements in your second year? The...
12.15.2007		KEITH HAYES Keith Hayes, BCE, is vice president, network operations and engineering services, for Charter Communications and also president of the SCTE Foundation. A year ago, you wrote on the topic of operational data overload and advocated a "triage"...
12.15.2007		MIKE REYNOLDS Mike Reynolds is the president of the StarHub Group (effective Jan. 1, 2008). Before assuming this position, he was head of integrated product and marketing, responsible for the product planning, development and management of all StarHub's products and...
12.15.2007		MOURAD VEENEMAN Mourad Veeneman is vice president for design and architecture at UPC Broadband, a Liberty Global company headquartered in the Netherlands. You first ran a channel bonding trial several years ago. Could you share any lessons learned? UPC has performed two...
12.15.2007		Cable Data Networking and Plant This section of Communications Executive covers the most terrain, from optical backbones to DOCSIS access networks to overall systems and multi-service views of what MSOs are - or should be - delivering. Touching several of these topics at once is Comcast...
12.04.2007		Pipeline Profile: Saifur Rahman Title: Principal Engineer, Comcast Broadband Background: Rahman works in national engineering and technical operations for Comcast. SCTE member since 2004 Your DOCSIS migration methodology article includes a review of the 11-year old spec as well as a...
11.01.2007		DOCSIS Migration Methodology The DOCSIS network is continuing to be pressed to deliver more throughput and speeds as more users and services are added. Without a systematic way to analyze and plan the upgrades, this process can be costly and time consuming. It's possible, however, to...
10.25.2007		It's a Small Business World Cable claims (and who are we to dispute what cable claims?) that it’s focused on the small-medium business (SMB) sector because the big telcos - Verizon, AT&T and Qwest - aren’t. Apparently someone forgot to tell that to Qwest, which this week...
10.22.2007		The Impact of SMB Offerings I'm taking my car to the dealer for service tomorrow. OK, woe is me, it seems like I need brake fluid, and hopefully I'll be able to stop before I drive through the service bay. Anyway, while I anticipate a short visit, I'm taking along my laptop just in case...
10.22.2007		Wal-Mart Pitching HughesNet, Charter Broadband Services This month, Wal-Mart significantly stepped up its status as a broadband service provider by announcing initiatives to sell connectivity from Hughes Network Systems in 2,800 stores and from Charter Communications in more than 700. The Wal-Mart offer of Charter...
10.03.2007		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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