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| 02.23.2010 |
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Google's Fiber Project - All About Mindshare
Peter Shapiro of PDS Consulting argues that Google's broadband "experiment" is more focused on mindshare than market share—with the goal of re-shaping perceptions and ultimately the way existing broadband networks are used....
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Digital Touch Points
Separable security has won no popularity contests, but the experiment has generated changes, such as the introduction of DVB-CSA. Separable security: it remains a contentious battlefield, littered with casualties, competing claims and capital expenditures. In...
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Comcast Update: What is a CMAP?
Among several trends impacting the access architecture over the past few years has been an increase in the number of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) channels used for narrowcast services. Most MSOs are deploying more and more unicast QAM channels to...
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| 01.12.2010 |
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The Avatar Factor
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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| 01.01.2010 |
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Communications Technology: Smart Home: Echostar Touts Sling to Cable
EchoStar is trying to convince cable operators to buy Sling technology-enabled set-top boxes. The Sling-loaded set-tops can deliver cable TV content to other devices, such as laptops and mobile phones...
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| 12.22.2009 |
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Review - Comcast's Fancast Xfinity TV Beta
CableFAX Exec Editor Michael Grebb reviews Comcast's answer to authentication, its "Xfinity"-branded service through Fancast. Bottom line: It's not perfect by any stretch (thus, the "beta" designation), but Comcast does a lot of things right in its first iteration of TV Everywhere....
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| 11.16.2009 |
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Slow Going for Mobile Video
Guest columnist Peter Shapiro of PDS Consulting sees speed bumps and congestion on the way to the third video screen....
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Broadband: What is a Micro-Reflection?
The study of transmission lines often begins with the assumption that a signal source, a lossless transmission line, and load have equal impedances. Under that scenario, all of an incident wave’s power transmitted from the source is absorbed by the...
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Reality Check: A Trillion Devices?
Remember "seamless mobility," the campaign that Motorola rolled out at the NCTA Show in San Francisco in 2005? Nearly five years later, the infrastructure required to make seamless connectivity and "IP everywhere" a reality is moving into...
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| 10.20.2009 |
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Guest Column — Time Shifting... Better than Ever
Paul Hockenbury, Comcast's Executive Director of Research and Analysis, argues that time shifting has yet to run its full course and predicts continued growth as more consumers embrace anywhere/anytime viewing....
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| 10.01.2009 |
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Business Services: Ethernet Makes Sense
Businesses seeking to cut costs while satisfying needs for faster data rates are driving demand for carrier Ethernet. Bolstering the technology are advanced specifications, increasing its appeal among some wireless carriers. But while cell backhaul is a major...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Bullpen: The Big Gun Idea
The cable industry’s narrowcast-generated services coupled with strategic implementation of time and frequency division multiplexing (TDM and FDM) has created an unrivaled and sustainable network. Yet this current converged network of voice, video and...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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IPTV: A Cable Perspective
Key drivers, three scenarios and elementary architecture...
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| 08.01.2009 |
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Video Quantity and Quality: Balancing Both can be a Delicate Operation.
Consumers would like more of both, if you please. Consumers are hunkering down to weather the economic downturn with a slice of take-out pizza in one hand and a remote in the other. A promise of more content...
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| 08.01.2009 |
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The Quality Puzzle
Assuring video quality is expensive and complicated, yet increasingly necessary. Linking video and IP networks could simplify operations and reduce costs....
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| 07.01.2009 |
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Redefining MTTR
A comprehensive and consistent approach to mean-time-to-repair helps keep things running smoothly....
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| 06.01.2009 |
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Wireless Update
Cable operators are now viewing wireless as an inside/outside triple play....
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| 06.01.2009 |
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High-Speed Internet Woes
Sometimes 'high-speed' isn't, and the problem can be anywhere between the sub and the Internet itself....
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| 05.12.2009 |
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Should Cable Let Go?
Over the years, cable operators have always wanted to control the box, and anyone who tried to wrest that control got squashed. But as the industry faces dizzying technological change and unprecedented competition, it might be time to reconsider whether total control is really worth the cost....
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| 05.01.2009 |
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Cable Eyes Online Video
As cable embraces the "anywhere, anytime, on any device" theme, new issues arise around media management....
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