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10/19/2011
OTT Video: It's Mighty
With already 70 percent of all Internet users viewing over-the-top (OTT) video, its days as a marginal activity are over, says Informa Telecoms & Media. And the research group expects interest in OTT video to continue to grow. By 2015, 2.1 billion people will be watching OTT video, equal to over 80 percent of all […]
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10/19/2011
Free Source Code Offered for Advanced Advertising
CableLabs is encouraging programmers to create new possibilities in interactive television advertising by making the source code and development tools for a new advanced advertising toolset available under a free community license. Vendors and developers are invited to use the tools and to contribute to a technical community that supports new possibilities in interactive television […]
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10/18/2011
Getting Up to Speed on WOW
After spending the better part of 2011 transitioning from analog to digital video in all of its markets in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, Denver-based WideOpenWest (WOW), which provides high-speed Internet, cable TV and voice, finally has completed that project and has updated its plant to support DOCSIS 3.0. "I’m happy to report the work […]
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10/18/2011
Harmonic Video Processing Powers Mediaroom-Based IPTV Service
Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative (PRTC) of Walterboro, S.C., has selected the Harmonic ProStream 1000 with ACE high-density, real-time transcoder to power HD and SD video for its 290-channel IPTV service, based on the Microsoft Mediaroom platform. The ProStream 1000 provides PRTC with Microsoft picture-in-picture (PIP) capability and support for HD and SD, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 […]
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10/18/2011
Ixia Makes Cellular Offload Testing Possible
Historically, Wi-Fi operators have optimized for network coverage, rather than capacity and service quality. In modern offload networks, however, service providers are using Wi-Fi networks as an extension of their 3G/4G networks. Cellular offload demands that the Wi-Fi network deliver a satisfactory experience to many concurrent users in high-density, high-demand locations. In this environment, the […]
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10/18/2011
Cloud-Based Billing Software Gains Traction with Smaller Operators
More than 80 operators worldwide have adopted the Great Lakes Data Systems (GLDS) WinCable in the Cloud subscriber management and billing system, according to GLDS. WinCable is ideal for operators with 300 to 300,000 subscribers. Service providers use WinCable virtually via the Internet, without the need for any hardware. It only requires a thin client […]