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04/16/2009
Business Service Mantra: Faster, Deeper, Wider
Faster, deeper and wider is the new mantra for the cable industry’s entry into the lucrative commercial services business as major MSOs and their smaller operator brethren move from small to midsize business markets (SMB) to larger enterprises. The go-go business services strategy being deployed at MSOs such as Bresnan, Cox, Time Warner and others […]
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04/15/2009
Cox Customers to Get tru2way
Cox Communications intends to introduce a new user interface with guide and tru2way applications by July. NDS, the vendor chosen for the project, is burning the midnight oil to make it happen. Despite the economic downturn, Cox is pushing forward with its commitment to enable tru2way in its digital networks by mid-2009. tru2way is a […]
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04/14/2009
T&M Paradigm Shift
Tight budgets at MSOs have in some cases shifted the focus away from technical testing and measurement.
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04/13/2009
Cable Faces Fierce Competition in Europe
For European cable operators, the big competition comes from large and entrenched telcos. But the younger and more spry cable industry sees various opportunities to grab market share. Because the big telcos have so much clout and advertising money, many Europeans think of digital subscriber line (DSL) when they think of Internet connections. "DSL is […]
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04/09/2009
Highly Individual: Cable Show Tech Papers Review
The technical papers prepared for "Highly Individual: Content Protection and Delivery in the Digital Era" session from last week’s Cable Show took four disparate paths, at least one more off track than the others. In their paper "The Challenges of Stopping Illegal Peer-To-Peer File Sharing," Kevin Bauer et al. of the University of Colorado keep […]
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04/09/2009
MSOs See Wireless as Inside/Outside Triple Play
The wireless component in a cable operator’s service package is gaining momentum as not only a competitive must-have service, but also as an extension of the customer’s home network. That was the consensus of the MSO panelists participating in last week’s Cable Show session, "AirPlay: Cable’s Wide-Open Wireless Future." "We are halfway through our wireless […]