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04/19/2012
Llano Estacado Chapter Wins Big In Vegas
The Llano Estacado Chapter of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) captured “Chapter of the Year” honors and three other awards last night at the association’s annual Chapter Awards Dinner in conjunction with the SCTE Leadership Conference in Las Vegas. Llano Estacado — representing engineering and operations professionals from Suddenlink Communications and other organizations […]
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04/19/2012
Survey Sez: U.K. Internet Spending Needs A Re-Think
More than half of the respondents to a recent ISPreview.co.uk survey support the U.K. government’s plan to spend $131.4 million on improving superfast broadband services in some of the country’s largest cities. However, only 10 percent of those supporters believe that allocation is enough to do the job properly. And even though nearly $66 million […]
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04/19/2012
For Sale: VOD Patent Portfolio
VVS Virtual Video Systems (Canada) Inc. has made plans to divest its patent portfolio in the VOD space, hiring U.S. patent-brokerage firm Tangible IP LLC to coordinate the sale. According to Tangible, the VVS patent portfolio is considered “a key building block to the architecture and deployment of current and next generation VOD services.” “We […]
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04/19/2012
HBC Goes OTT With Amino
Hiawatha Broadband Communications Inc. (HBC), a Minn.-based FTTH “quadplay” services provider, is trialing Amino’s Freedom Jump over-the-top (OTT) media center as part of its quest to provide new entertainment experiences to its 20,000-strong customer base.? ? Working with platform partner aioTv, Amino says Freedom Jump can deliver a new layer of content that can be blended […]
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04/18/2012
Streamlining Your On-Demand Media Prep
At this week’s NAB Show in Las Vegas, Pilat Media Global plc, a supplier of business-management software to the media industry, took the wraps off of a automated metadata management and media preparation workflow solution for the company’s flagship Integrated Broadcast Management System (IBMS). Now included with IBMS:OnDemand (an IBMS add-on module that provides centralized […]
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04/18/2012
Fiber Switch Is Web-Configurable
Fidra, a fiber-optic switch designed to monitor, reroute, repeat, boost and disable as many as three fiber-optic communication pairs., is the latest addition to the Conolog Corporation product stable. Industry-standard SFP modules allow Fidra to support various optical communications including single/multimode, LED/laser as well as multiple wavelengths, the N.J.-based company says. Common applications for Fidra […]