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Leakage in an All-Digital World
Cable360
March 1, 2009
Ron Hranac's February CT column "Signal Leakage in an All-Digital Network" (click here to read it online), sparked by a discussion on the SCTE-List, examines the familiar topic of signal leakage limits (Part 76 of the FCC Rules) within the less...
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SCTE Cable-Tec Expo Wrap-Up
Cable360
July 17, 2006
Switched digital topped the hit parade in Denver. By Simon Applebaum Bandwidth is the cable industry's equivalent of oil a precious commodity to be conserved, the core of technological innovation and a source of revenue. The better operators can...
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Pipeline Profile: Ron Hranac
Cable360
April 18, 2006
SCTE Member Since 1979 Title : Technical Leader, Broadband Network Engineering, Cisco Systems Broadband Background: Prior to joining Cisco, Hranac held management positions at companies including High Speed Access International and Coaxial...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/17634.html
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Space Weather: What It Is and Why It Matters
Cable360
June 4, 2009
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting a mild solar storm season for the next 11-year solar cycle. (For the initial announcement, click here.) But what does that mean, and why do we care? What it is To simplify...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/36001.html
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Reality Check: Back to the Basics
Cable360
April 1, 2009
A few years back, I was working for the engineering division of a large Canadian MSO that operated cable systems in both Canada and the United States. One of my duties was performing system technical audits - Canadian BP 23 testing of the Canadian...
http://www.cable360.net/business/advancedsvcs/34895.html
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Backtalk
Cable360
July 1, 2007
Got news, quotes or photos of people in the broadband cable engineering community? Send it to mrobuck@accessintel.com for possible inclusion on this page in future issues. People Comcast hires Murphy Comcast announced the hiring of Dan Murphy as...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/24323.html
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Tutorial Tuesday
Cable360
June 20, 2008
If you're planning to take in any of Expo's many workshops, you'd be wise to attend Tutorial Tuesday first. The pre-show tutorials take place June 24 from 1-4:15 p.m. While they're not quite "back to basics," they do cover the underlying theory on...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/30368.html
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Eichenlaub Named Member of the Year
Cable360
October 29, 2009
The SCTE has awarded its 2009 SCTE Member of the Year Award to Frank Eichenlaub of Cisco Systems. Eichenlaub received his award at the Annual Awards Luncheon at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo yesterday in Denver. Accepting the honor, Eichenlaub said in...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/38344.html
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Troubleshooting Digital
Cable360
October 30, 2007
Just because the world is going digital, cable operators can't forget about analog signals and the "gremlins" that affect them. This was a common thread woven throughout "Troubleshooting Digital Services Node to Tap," a recent webinar sponsored by...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/26375.html
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Expo 04 Show Picks
Cable360
August 1, 2004
Cable-Tec Expo 2004 has come and gone, and the show once again exceeded expectations. The exhibit hall was packed to the rafters the first two days, and the technical workshops I sat in on were well-attended. Acterna sponsored the Arrival Night...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/vendors/15155.html
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Space Weather
Cable360
July 1, 2009
Mention space weather to most people, and they ll look at you funny. Maybe they re thinking of John Belushi s portrayal of Captain Kirk in the old Saturday Night Live Star Trek skit. Yet space weather is real and no laughing matter. What it...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/strategy/36599.html
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Troubleshooting Digitally Modulated Signals, Part 2
Cable360
July 1, 2006
Digitally modulated signals are a fact of life in the modern cable system, and keeping those signals healthy requires different equipment and knowledge than analog does. Here follows Part 2 of Ron Hranac's Expo workshop on troubleshooting digitally...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/advancedsvcs/18539.html
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Telephony: The Top View Emphasizes Bandwidth
Cable360
June 1, 2007
Although people in cable tend to change companies, the fact that most of us keep working for some part of the industry gives us a pretty good sense of how things work and where the industry is going. Some of us who enter management also have the...
http://www.cable360.net/business/operatorsmsos/23784.html
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System of the Year: Comcast Washington Region
Cable360
August 1, 2006
Back to August 2006 Issue August 2006 Issue The vice president of engineering and technical operations for the Seattle-based Comcast Washington Region is an extreme outdoor enthusiast. You might miss it. Cable veteran Steve Taber is a modest man...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/18545.html
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Training: Advanced Services Require Good ol' Sweat Equity
Cable360
August 22, 2006
Advanced services have impacted training regimens at the cable operators in obvious ways as evidenced by the courses offered at the industry's associations and training organizations. At Jones/NCTI, six years ago there were only two courses that...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/18601.html
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Innovations '05
Cable360
January 1, 2005
Innovation is one of those grand abstractions that everyone favors in general. But because perspectives differ, identifying specific innovations can be a slippery exercise. To design engineers, innovation is associated with the proverbial lightbulb...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/strategy/14857.html
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Clearing the Air on 'White Spaces,' Part II
Cable360
April 13, 2007
In last Monday's newsletter, we ran a correction of sorts on the FCC's review to allow companies the use of "white spaces" to beam Internet access through. Dave Large, who wrote the NCTA's appendix that was submitted to the FCC, wanted to clarify...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/news/23007.html
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Everybody Wins when Vendors Think like Operators
Cable360
November 1, 2004
In September, I had the privilege of planning and chairing the joint Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers-Communications Technology voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) Symposium session on Engineering VoIP with Capital and Operating...
http://www.cable360.net/voice/15260.html
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VOD: Tools of the Trade
Cable360
February 26, 2007
Video on demand isn't exactly the new kid on the block anymore, but increased loads of on-demand services coupled with multiple vendors haven't made monitoring the systems any easier, and applications such as switched digital video (SDV) will only...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/strategy/22221.html
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Status Report: Leakage Detection
Cable360
November 1, 2008
Cable system RF signal leakage sounds like an old hat, ho-hum subject, but back in the 1980s there was the possibility that the regulators could break instead of make cable. (See sidebar.) In the following decades, operators learned to deal with...
http://www.cable360.net/technology/advancedsvcs/32351.html
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