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03.08.2010		Ops Bank on EBIF for Ad Revenues The funniest story at last week's EBIF day of the TV of Tomorrow conference in San Francisco was told by Chris Faw, SVP of operations at Time Warner Cable. He had checked into his hotel and asked the concierge for restaurant recommendations. The hotel man...
03.05.2010		YouTube Talks Change to Cable At yesterday’s Cable Congress in Brussels, an executive for Google-owned YouTube flew the banner of social media but said there were several obstacles to expanding YouTube’s presence on the TV set. Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) Director of...
03.04.2010		TVs Not Connected to Internet en Masse At last week's NCTC Winter Educational Conference in Long Beach, CA, a group of panelists discussed technology trends. One big trend is that more devices are being connected to the Internet. "What consumer electronics item is built without an IP...
03.03.2010		Fries Touts Gateway, Discounts OTT Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, speaking at the opening session of Cable Congress 2010 in Brussels, said his company was planning to deploy an IP-based home gateway “sometime next year.” The Europe-focused super MSO is riding favorable cost curves...
03.03.2010		KDG and Comcast Talk Speed A panel today at Cable Congress in Brussels, featuring the CTOs from Kable Deutschland and Comcast, headlined high-speed data. The question, as ever, is just how fast? Kabel Deutschland CTO Lorenz Glatz several times pointed to the “theoretical”...
03.02.2010		Broadcom SoCs Drop Costs Earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Broadcom rolled out a number of new System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs that promise to shrink cable modems and voice gateways, and lower the cost of reclaiming analog bandwidth. On the data front, the BCM 3382...
03.01.2010		Comcast: Headends Getting Too Crowded CMAP is all about saving space, according to Jorge Salinger, VP access architecture, office of the CTO, Comcast, at an event in Denver last week. Of course, saving space occupied by expensive telecommunications equipment translates into saving money, too...
02.25.2010		IEEE Launches EPON Interop Project The IEEE Standards Association officially began work this month on project P1904.1, Service Interoperability in Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (SIEPON). Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, the P1904.1 working group (WG) held its inaugural meeting...
02.24.2010		Panel Talks Policy, New Users and IPv6 The transition to IPv6 and the network planning needed to accomplish it is underway, and the new users that will embrace the enhanced Internet are the industry’s future customers. At least that’s the idea. Panelists during the final session...
02.24.2010		Operators Need Harry Potter Kids For the lunch speech at yesterday’s NCTC Winter Educational Conference, Steve Collier, VP of business development with Milsoft Utility Solutions, entertained and frightened attendees with his assessment of where communications technology is going. The...
02.23.2010		Mediacom Earns with Local Loop At the opening session of the NCTC’s Winter Educational Conference yesterday in Long Beach, CA, two executives from Mediacom Communications shared lessons on using fiber for wholesale and business-class services. Dominick DePaola, senior director of...
02.23.2010		Digital Network Monitoring Raises Bar Intense competitive pressures and rising customer expectations are driving small and independent cable operators to deploy more cost-efficient methods of managing their networks. That was the message sent by panelists during a session at the NCTC’s...
02.22.2010		Comcast Subs Can Track Internet Usage Comcast has begun offering Internet usage meters to customers across its footprint. In December 2009, Comcast offered Internet usage meters to some of its customers in its Portland, OR, system on a trial basis. That trial was expanded to Seattle in January...
02.22.2010		XCast Expands EMTA Provisioning XCast Labs announced automatic provisioning capability for the full line of ARRIS embedded multi-media terminal adapters (EMTAs). The voice over IP (VoIP) specialist also announced that New York City-based Private Network Cable (PNC) Television has selected...
02.18.2010		Wireless Gets a Little Stimulus The government continues to dole out stimulus money in batches, announcing yesterday the selection of 11 more broadband infrastructure projects in nine states. Funding for the projects is being provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
02.17.2010		Fed Releases Internet Use Report As part of the government’s research in preparation for its National Broadband Plan, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has released a report about broadband usage in the United States. The report is entitled...
02.16.2010		Neustar Touts Wireless Chops The search for smart ways to make up the gap between subscriber revenue and demands on broadband wireless infrastructure is proceeding in earnest. This week’s venue for exploring that challenge is the Mobile World Congress 2010 (MWC) in Barcelona Spain...
02.11.2010		CMC Improves Ad Delivery The Comcast Media Center (CMC) has upgraded its AdDelivery product to fully automate the delivery of ads. “I think you’d be surprised that there’s still a lot of manual work,” said Gary Traver, SVP and COO with the CMC, referring to...
02.10.2010		What’s in HDMI 1.4? On the program of last week’s Over the Top (OTT) Conference in San Jose was the newly enhanced high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) specification. First announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2003, HDMI has since been adopted by more than...
02.09.2010		Ops Pick Jinni at CableLabs Confab As part of its Winter Conference, CableLabs held its Innovation Showcase yesterday. Eleven companies were chosen to participate in the event where they were given ten minutes to explain and demonstrate one of their products to an audience of cable provider...
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