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12/15/2008
40G and a Horserace
Operators and carriers are moving 40 Gbps (40G) optical networking equipment, with vendors touting deals and market share, and all sides positioning for the shift to 100G. (To read about recent 40G activity, click here and here.) The 40G market finally has entered "a generalized deployment phase," said Ron Kline, research director at Ovum and […]
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12/11/2008
VOD Small-Scale Analysis
Operators of small and medium-sized cable systems historically have had trouble creating a viable business model for video on demand (VOD). Since early 2007, the Comcast Media Center and ARRIS (then C-COR) have offered a product, VOD In a Box, which provides a turnkey VOD solution for cable systems with 25,000 or fewer digital subscribers. […]
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12/09/2008
Online Video Viewership Explodes
Cable viewers are watching large amounts of online video, even twice as much as video on demand (VOD), according to a recent survey. "Video views exploded across the industry," writes Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform and SVP, content publishing, for Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) in an end of year post on his Web site. (For […]
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12/08/2008
IPTV: The Hong Kong Model
IPTV numbers worldwide are on the rise. New research from Informa Telecom & Media puts global subscribership at 57 million by 2013. That is nearly triple today’s figure, but still represents only 4 percent of TV households. The report indicates the strongest growth for IPTV in the Asia-Pacific region with 22.2 million subscribers predicted by […]
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12/04/2008
Subs Like High Quality Audio, Too
Consumers are paying a lot of attention to picture quality. High definition (HD) overtook standard definition (SD) TV sets in global shipments in 2008, and HD set-top boxes are forecast grow from 20 percent in 2007 to 50 percent of global market share in 2012, according to technology research firm iSuppli. But audio is a […]
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12/02/2008
Rogers Communications Founder Remembered
The Board of Directors of Rogers Communications has announced the death of company founder, Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers. He was 75. "We wish to express our deepest sympathy to Loretta and all of the Rogers family for this loss," said Alan Horn, Rogers chairman and acting CEO, in a statement. "Ted Rogers was one of […]