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06/25/2009
TWC Picks TVN for Company-Wide VOD
Satellite VOD provider TVN Entertainment has entered into a long-term agreement with Time Warner Cable for a company-wide deployment of TVN’s VOD platform. TVN will provide Time Warner with VOD content delivery services and asset management tools, including TVN’s ADONISS interactive system. (For the initial announcement, click here.) "TVN’s ADONISS platform will be deployed across […]
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06/24/2009
iSuppli: Costs Could Stifle Moore's Law
According to the technology research company iSuppli, Moore’s Law is becoming hampered by the high cost of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit, or chip, doubles every two years. For more than four decades, Moore’s Law has remained on track. But the […]
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06/24/2009
Nokia Siemens Stakes Claim in North American Wireless
In a move to gain a greater presence in North America, Nokia Siemens Networks is purchasing the CDMA and Long Term Evolution (LTE) assets of Nortel Networks for a proposed purchase price of $650 million. (For the initial announcement, click here.) Nortel, a Canadian telecom equipment maker, declared bankruptcy in January. By purchasing Nortel’s CDMA […]
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06/23/2009
Canoe Promotes Four Advertising Interfaces
With the economy down, so too are advertising budgets, making advanced advertising even more enticing for cable operators seeking to offer more bang for the decreasing buck. Progress is being made on the MSO level and nationally with specifications and Canoe Ventures. Last week, during a webcast sponsored by Communications Technology, Arthur Orduna, Canoe’s CTO, […]
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06/22/2009
Comcast Readies IPv6
Comcast showed its support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in a meeting of the North American Network Operators Group last week in Philadelphia. NANOG is an educational and operational forum for Internet service providers (ISPs). It was formed in 1994, having evolved from the regional tech meetings of NSFNET, the pioneering National Science Foundation-backed […]
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06/22/2009
SCTE Marks 40th Anniversary
The SCTE celebrates its 40th anniversary today. But the SCTE is more focused on the future than the past, according to the organization’s President and CEO Mark Dzuban. Speaking at a meeting of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the SCTE last week, Dzuban said his mission at the SCTE is to "drive a renaissance from […]