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02/10/2003
Acterna: Keeping Watch
BY ANTHONY CRUPI Now that operators are able to offer their customers at least some form of converged service (digital cable, high-speed Internet, VoIP telephony, etc.), the field technicians in their employ have become indispensable. These guys don’t just run coax through the wall anymore; today’s field tech has to be able to check the […]
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02/10/2003
Operation OK From Tulsa to Muskogee
BY SHIRLEY BRADY You can’t talk about Cox Communication’s cable operation in Oklahoma City — the 45th-ranked market in the country — without taking into account what’s going on 15 notches lower on Nielsen’s list of top markets. That’s because Cox runs Oklahoma City and No. 60 market Tulsa as one business unit. Cox’s Oklahoma […]
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02/01/2003
If Only It Were This Easy…Building Cable's All-IP Network
To create an IP/HFC network "on-button," cable operators will have to focus on some core network elements. Imagine this scenario. A cable operator is able to aggregate all of its Internet protocol (IP)-based voice, video and data traffic from its residential and business subscribers into a single IP aggregation switch at the local distribution hub […]
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02/01/2003
IP Meets Voice, Video and Data
As IP becomes universal, cable operators can tap this flexible protocol to deliver a rich array of data, voice and multimedia services.
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01/20/2003
BRIEFS
CABLEWORLD STAFF Manticom Networks last week announced that it has successfully completed interoperability tests between its Scorpion 4104 and SeaChange International’s VOD System, certifying the switching and transport aspects of Manticom’s integrated solution. Manticom’s Scorpion 4104 is a multigigabit optical Ethernet switching and transport solution that provides scalability from 2.5 Gbps to 20 Gbps. It […]
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01/13/2003
2003 What's in Store for Cable
BY KEITH DUNNAVANT CALL IT THE KILLER APP, BECAUSE, AT LEAST FOR NOW, THE satellites can’t do it. Video-on-demand subscriptions are poised to grow rapidly in 2003. All major MSOs have now deployed some form of VOD; programmers, ranging from ESPN and Discovery, to smaller players, such as Wisdom Television and Atom Films, are providing […]