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02/01/2011
Home Monitoring: Control and Security Come Of Age
Back in the late 1990s, futurists in the cable industry envisioned a day when there would be embedded TV screens on refrigerator doors, from which we could not only watch TV but program our refrigerators to do such high-tech tasks as ordering more milk when supplies ran low. Unfortunately, most people didn’t see a clear […]
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02/01/2011
‘Did You Know?’ Q&A Wrap-Up: Hranac Tackles The Tough Ones
In December 2010, Senior Technology Editor Ron Hranac hosted a 90-minute Webcast (www.cable360.net/ct/webcasts) focused not only on sharing his institutional knowledge about some of the broadband industry’s technical minutia, but also on answering myriad questions submitted by the audience. There were so many queries, however, that time ran out before they could be addressed. Here […]
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02/01/2011
What’s A Codeword Or Two Among Friends?
During Communications Technology’s December 2010 “Did You Know?” Webcast, several participants asked about codewords, codeword errors and acceptable percentages of DOCSIS upstream codeword errors. A good way to answer these questions is first to define what a codeword is and how it applies to the world of data transmission over cable networks. All of this […]
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02/01/2011
Time To Polish That Crystal Ball
If you could see your future, would you really want to? What a crapshoot. Good luck or a losing streak? Health or catastrophic illness? Flush or broke? A nice, peaceful demise at an old age or… However, all of us in the technology business have seen the future, to a certain extent. Every time we […]
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01/31/2011
AboveNet Promotes CTO to COO
AboveNet has named Rajiv Datta to the post of chief operating officer. Datta joined AboveNet in 1998 and has served in a number of significant management roles. Most recently he held the position of AboveNet’s chief technology officer and oversaw all aspects of engineering, IT and product development activities across AboveNet’s metro, long haul and […]
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01/31/2011
Comcast Launches WiMAX Service in Colorado
Comcast continues its rollout of wireless data service, announcing today the Colorado launch of Xfinity Internet 2go, the company’s high-speed wireless data service. Xfinity Internet 2go provides a mobile Internet solution via wireless data cards. Comcast offers a fourth-generation or 4G wireless service in addition to a nationwide 3G wireless service. Comcast is selling this […]