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11/17/2008
GPON Interops
The Full Service Access Network (FSAN) held its seventh GPON interoperability test event in late October, drawing a dozen vendors of optical line termination (OLT) and optical network termination (ONT) equipment together to focus on GPON’s ONT management control interface (OMCI). (For a quick overview of the different flavors of PON, click here. For a […]
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11/13/2008
DTV Elsewhere
All eyes in the United States are on the Feb. 17 deadline (see here and here, for example), but there is plenty of digital TV transition activity occurring elsewhere. The European Commission (EC), for instance, has set a target date of 2012 for what is commonly referred to as analog shut off (ASO), with Luxembourg, […]
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11/11/2008
Suddenlink Mixes, Matches VOD Components
Suddenlink Communications launched VOD service last month in 23 of its markets in southwestern Texas. The deployment combines VOD components from two different vendors and is arrayed in a centralized architecture. "This fundamentally came about as a function of an RFP process," said Gregg Grigaitis, Suddenlink vice president, advanced technology. "Through that RFP process, those […]
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11/10/2008
TWC Gains, but Lowers Expectations
Time Warner Cable last week reported a revenue increase to $4.3 billion in the third quarter, which represented an 8 percent jump compared to the same quarter in 2007. The gain was attributed to digital video, digital phone and broadband subscriber gains. "Our communications and entertainment services continue to be a vital part of consumers’ […]
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11/06/2008
SIP Goes Global?
Companies that leverage Internet protocol (IP) technologies may rise and fall and rise again, but the protocols themselves – at least the successful ones – plod along, one request for comments (RFC) after another. One phoenix-like IP network-based service provider that famously sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2002 only to revive as a […]
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11/04/2008
Ethernet Reaches Cellular Backhaul
On this election day, Ethernet might not be as hot a topic as the economy, taxation and Joe the plumber, but among cable operators, the technology is making headlines more frequently as talk turns into action on the commercial services front. As Ethernet has gained momentum and credibility among cable operators, it has been parlayed […]