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05/11/2009
Recommended Practices 'in Good Hands'
"NCTA Recommended Practices for Measurements on Cable Television Systems" is adopting new parents. The NCTA has transferred responsibility for the document’s publication and ongoing maintenance to the SCTE. (For the initial announcement, click here.) Rob Stoddard, SVP of communications and public affairs for the NCTA, described the transfer in happy terms. "We know it’ll be […]
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05/07/2009
U-verse Adds Subs, Touts IP-Based Network
Last week at the Broadband Properties Summit 2009 in Dallas, speakers from AT&T promoted U-verse to the audience of multi-family-dwelling owners and managers. The AT&T folks played up the benefits of U-verse, which drew 284,000 new TV subscribers in the first quarter of 2009. Not surprisingly, the speakers played down the drawbacks. U-verse is AT&T’s […]
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05/06/2009
Operators Connect Schools, Students
As the cable industry makes inroads into the commercial services market, the schools and education vertical is emerging as not just a philanthropic endeavor, but also as a viable business segment. Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems, announced recently that it has replaced Verizon Communications as the provider of choice for the Creskill Public […]
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05/05/2009
Ciena's 100G Stimulates Finance
The financial sector may be shrinking, but advanced optics are accelerating the links between some of that industry’s data centers, as today’s 100 Gbps news from Ciena and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext indicates. In a project that will reach testing phase this summer and go live in 2010, Ciena is providing 50 […]
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05/04/2009
OTT App a Big Hit at Virgin Media
In England, the hottest thing in television is the BBC iPlayer, which allows consumers to watch vast amounts of previously-aired BBC content on their PCs or on cable TV. British Broadcasting Corp. programming is funded by a tax on U.K. citizens and then made available for free on broadcast TV. In 2007, the BBC launched […]
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05/04/2009
Q&A with Virgin Media's Kevin Baughan
Kevin Baughan, director of technical strategy at Virgin Media, answered some questions from Communications Technology about the broadband business in the United Kingdom. What does the competitive landscape look like for Virgin Media in the UK? We’re seeing increasing consumer demand for bandwidth, driven by the success of BBC iPlayer, iTunes, social networking sites such […]