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01/13/2009
CES Wrapup: The View from Vegas
Company execs at last week’s 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were anxious to make it clear they know that 21st century digital consumers want content anywhere on any device. For starters, just prior to the opening of CES, Cisco’s big guns unveiled the company’s consumer strategy, with Chairman and CEO John Chambers […]
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01/12/2009
Picocells, Femtocells Offer Backhaul
Question: Which is smaller, a pico or a femto? Answer: A femto, which is one-quadrillionth, while the larger pico is one-trillionth. It follows then that femtocells are deployed mostly in residential settings, while the more robust picocells are deployed in larger buildings. Both femtocells and picocells are mini base stations that connect to the Internet […]
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01/08/2009
Japan Leads in HDTV, China Lags
Of the 50 million total TV households in Japan, almost 17 million have HDTV, according to an analyst at IMS Research. In contrast, there are 400 million total TV households in China, but HDTV is only just beginning to be rolled out. Of course, there are major political and historical factors causing such sharp contrast […]
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01/06/2009
How to Harden CA and Become Less Insecure
With confidence in conditional access (CA) technology on the wane after publicized exposures of satellite TV smart cards, one vendor is touting an approach that promises to protect existing CA. The technology could even revive the cable industry’s stalled efforts to craft a common downloadable CA system (DCAS).Star hackerExhibit A for smart card vulnerability is […]
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01/05/2009
CES: Global Flavor, Plus Convergence
True to its name, the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which opens this week in Las Vegas, will have a definitively global flavor, with 1,100 of the scheduled 2,700 exhibitors coming from outside of the United States. In total, 140 countries will be represented. The number of exhibitors has only declined 7 to 8 […]
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01/01/2009
Bullpen: DIBA Reconsidered
The author of the well-written video over DOCSIS article in the November issue of CT discussed the potential advantages of the DOCSIS over IPTV bypass architecture (DIBA). The architecture and technologies proposed are certainly physically realizable. However, before dedicating any resources to further refining and standardizing another infrastructure tied to the HFC network, the industry […]