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10/01/2011
5 Ways To Make Money With Bundling
Cable operators and communications service providers see huge opportunities emerging from the intersection between digital television and the Internet to create an interactive “anytime, anywhere” TV experience for their customers. This opportunity calls for systems that enable carriers to offer thousands of different subscription packages over different applications (like interactive TV, time-shifted TV, catch-up TV, […]
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10/01/2011
‘TV Everywhere’ Delivery: Lessons Learned From Wireless
For more than a decade, the wireless industry catchphrase was “anytime, anywhere communications.” In today’s world, that’s a reasonable expectation for voice calls, but consumers want more. The latest buzzword is “TV Everywhere.” However, a more accurate descriptor of what truly is available when it comes to video or high-bandwidth content is TV “a lot […]
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10/01/2011
Gearing Up For HTML5
The broadband industry has been juggling a number of technology updates that have moved from the “nice to have” arena to being “must haves,” and they include the transition to IPv6, a move to Long Term Evolution in the wireless space, applications that use iOS and Android for content distribution, and now the move to […]
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10/01/2011
Policy Control And Mobile Video
There is no question video is both popular ( e.g., YouTube is now the second-largest search engine) and consumes tremendous amounts of network resources relative to almost any other application. In 2009, Cisco’s Visual Networking Index projected that mobile video will grow 66-fold from 2009 to 2014, to the point where it will consume 66 […]
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10/01/2011
Down The Multi-Screen Rabbit Hole
Innovation sometimes happens best in a state of near chaos, where many people are looking at a problem from many different angles. That certainly describes the current state of innovation when it comes to delivering video to multiple screens. From 36,000 feet, the engineers might look like mice running around in circles, bumping into one […]
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10/01/2011
Some Thoughts On LTE Interference
There’s a new kid on the block — the interference block, that is. That new kid is Long Term Evolution (LTE), a moniker for the next generation of mobile wireless broadband technology. What are known as LTE bands 12, 13, 14 and 17 are in a frequency range that overlaps frequencies used in many cable […]