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07/20/2006
Advanced Video Coding
Advanced video coding offers improved compression, but there are some significant issues, such as random access points, DPI and DVRs, that need to be addressed before cable operators give it the podium. Check out the Communications Technology story here. Cablevision Eyes Targeted Ads TVWeek.com has a story about Cablevision’s plans for a trial run of […]
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07/17/2006
Summit: Still Standing Tall
Those attending the 30th annual CTAM Summit should not take the event for granted. A few years back, some NCTA exec committee members, looking to reduce costs and time commitments, argued that Summit should be shuttered
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06/26/2006
Speed’s Great…but Sports & Games Are Even Better
Bill Garrett has a simple mission: Knock cable operators off the top of Broadband Mountain. "We want to offer all the services consumers want," Verizon’s director of broadband services says. "You need enough bandwidth coming into the home to provide all of those services simultaneously." While the bandwidth battle has historically favored MSOs’ faster cable-modem […]
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04/17/2006
My Back Page: Smart Office + Smart Home = (Very) Smart Play
Looking back at 2011 from my perch here in the year 2021 (hey, I’m above it all now), I can see that 2011 was the year cable began to really pull it all together into more than just a full-service network—cable created a full-service universe. It was just after National ’06 in Atlanta that cable […]
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04/01/2006
Interactive Momentum
The long-dormant, potential energy of the OpenCable Application Platform has moved into action. This momentum will carry MSOs toward the goal of installation of OCAP in most headends by mid-2009.
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01/09/2006
Meet the System–Inland Empire, Calif.: Give Me the Simple Life
Sometimes, simple things can assist advanced technologies. Five years ago, Charter Communications’ Inland Empire system used the relatively low-tech transport method of pack mules to bring fiber optics and high-speed Internet into the mountains of Southern California. While the regional cluster located east of Los Angeles eschewed mules when it began offering telephone service last […]