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08/16/2010
Go2Broadband vs. BillShrink: Friends or Foes?
CableLabs has a Web site (https://locator.go2broadband.com/) where potential broadband customers can search for a provider in their areas. (For more, click here). Go2Broadband has been around for 10 years, but is it effective? Larry Gowin, senior product manager at CableLabs, said, "We have seen a steady growth of users and queries throughout the life of […]
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07/19/2010
GIS Does Serviceability, Monitoring
CableLabs will be hosting a GIS/Location Intelligence workshop Aug. 17-18, in conjunction with its summer conference in Keystone, Colo., set for Aug. 15-18. The workshop will focus on how service providers are using geographical information systems (GIS) today; highlights of the latest GIS-related business opportunities; and proposed next steps for cable operators in terms of […]
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10/29/2009
AGSI to Resell SPATIALinfo
SPATIALinfo has announced an exclusive reseller agreement with AGSI intended to provide best-in-class information management, GIS, and operations solutions for utilities. The agreement allows AGSI to resell spatialNET as part of the GO360 enterprise solution, offering a comprehensive solution for utilities.
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10/07/2009
SCTE to Hold GIS Meeting at Cable-Tec Expo
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is undertaking work to provide symbol and related standards to help the industry more effectively leverage efficiencies inherent in the network maps used in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This new SCTE standards project is expected to address elements integral to today’s network mapping – features relating to network […]
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10/01/2009
Reality Check: What’s Next for GIS?
Anyone who undertakes a geographic information project at some point faces this question: "Will I ever be done?" When my team started down our current path some ten years ago, our only real goal was to standardize the data in our plant maps. It only made sense that if the maps were standardized, we would […]
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10/01/2009
Editor’s Letter: About our Authors
Some notes on this month’s team. Senior Technology Editor Ron Hranac needs no introduction. His regular Broadband column this month features a look back at 40 years of SCTE history, revealing something of