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08/05/2010
Revving Revs: Charter Grows Revenue, Narrows Loss, Loses Basics
Like Comcast , Charter shed subs in 2Q but still grew revenue. Revenue rose 4.8% to $1.77bln, with video rev up 0.4%, HSD rev increasing 9.5% and telephone rev up 11%. Even local ad revenue grew 16%. Over the
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08/01/2010
Home Networking: Hooking Cable Up With The ‘Connected House’
Home Networking The number of Web-enabled consumer-electronics (CE) devices continues to skyrocket.
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08/01/2010
Total Power And Channel Bonding: A Follow-Up Lesson
My April 2010 column provided an overview of the concept of total power and how it applies to the world of DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding. In particular, I looked at the impact on upstream per-channel maximum RF levels as the number of transmitted channels is increased beyond one. But what happens when a cable modem […]
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08/01/2010
Channeling Dire Straits: I Want My Home-Networked TV
As I’ve mentioned before, I have a strange and wonderful love affair with TV. In fact, there’s a TV hooked up to a digital cable box in nearly every room in my house (one of the things I really like about being on the road for business is TV in the bathroom in the better-equipped […]
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07/29/2010
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NBCU upped Jeff Fleeher to svp/CFO, TV Networks Distribution & Digital Distribution Divisions — Crown evp, CFO Brian Stewart will resign from his post, effective Aug 20. He's the 2nd high profile
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07/28/2010
Why DFB Lasers May Be Insufficient in DOCSIS 3.0 Upstreams
Cable operators that want to maximize the value of their hybrid fiber coax (HFC) networks are deploying DOCSIS 3.0 channel-bonding technologies to increase capacity and to compete with telcos’ all-fiber networks. However, there are two drawbacks when it comes to using DOCSIS 3.0: Upload speeds usually are much slower than download speeds, and noise is […]