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08/01/2003
VoIP Takes Off
After years of crawling, today’s VoIP walk seems like a veritable sprint. A few cases in point: Details please This momentum builds PacketCable qualifications, which CableLabs began in December, and VoIP deployments by Charter in Wisconsin and Liberty Cablevision in Puerto Rico, also from late last year. Discussion of VoIP has, thus, quickly turned to […]
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08/01/2003
National Show ’03: Rest Now at Your Own Peril
IP and HDTV got a lot of jaw-time at the NCTA’s National Show in June, as did on-demand apps, dual must-carry and network capital investments.
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08/01/2003
Better Rack-and-Stacks
Headend racks are shedding their reputation as commodities. Not that all cable techs are on board. "One of the things that’s mostly neglected is the infrastructure to support all the electronics in these facilities," Tim Fike, sales engineer with Sci-Care Broadband Services, says. But two-post rack installs don’t quite cut it today. Racks are now […]
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08/01/2003
Map Your Path: Planning for OpenCable, Transport and Tiered Data
Planning to support PODs and OCAP? Converge or VOD-optimize your transport platform? Tier or quality-assure your data service? These questions will lead you into 2004.
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08/01/2003
Seminar Central: Your One-Stop Source for Learning
There’s not one of us in the cable telecommunications industry who isn’t somewhat overwhelmed by the prospect of launching the plethora of new services now available to consumers. That’s why the Society’s second annual SCTE Seminar Central—taking place Oct. 21-24 at Cisco Systems headquarters in San Jose, Calif.—will focus largely on getting you up to […]
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07/28/2003
BRIEFS
CABLEWORLD STAFF National Geographic Channel led cable programmers at the CTAM Summit in Seattle last week, winning five Gold Mark Awards recognizing excellence in consumer and industry marketing. NGC was followed by MTV Networks and Showtime Networks, which won four each. MTV also won the first-ever Top of the Mark award for its Fight for […]