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11/03/2008
BD-Live: Invading Physical Media
Adoption of Blu-ray Disk (BD) technology is advancing quickly. The first $150 BD player may arrive by Thanksgiving, and BD title sales in the United States are expected to soar to $1 billion in 2008, a 588 percent increase over 2007. Consumers purchasing these newer players will notice they all come with an Ethernet port. […]
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11/01/2008
Status Report: Leakage Detection
Leakage detection has shifted from an onerous obligation to an essential part of delivering advanced services.
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10/30/2008
Turning Hardline Coax into Fiber Conduit
What if you could replace your old hardline coax with fiber without having to pull it down from poles or dig it up? Technology from Kabel-X is designed to do exactly that. Since its U.S. debut at the SCTE’s Cable-Tec Expo in June, Kabel-X has been drawing attention. CT Senior Technology Editor Ron Hranac included […]
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10/28/2008
EOD: Bringing Ethernet Everywhere
While cable operators are interested in serving the small-to-medium business (SMB) market and providing alternatives to legacy layer two services, fiber builds can be costly and impractical. Looking for ways to leverage their existing HFC infrastructure, they have begun deploying Ethernet over DOCSIS (EOD) as a replacement for T-1 or frame relay services. (For an […]
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10/27/2008
DOCSIS 3.0 Update
Cable operators around the world have vetted and deployed channel bonding in pre-standard form for several years. European MSOs announced accelerated EuroDOCSIS 3.0 rollouts in September, around the IBC show. Last week, Comcast announced its shift from trial and limited deployment in the Twin Cities to full-scale activation of DOCSIS 3.0 in multiple markets. (See […]
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10/23/2008
All Digital, Small Scale
As the competitive marketplace intensifies for tier 1 and 2 cable operators, many are now looking for affordable digital headends, or some technical variation, to increase their channel capacity for HD, VOD and other must-have services. Smaller, independent operators are also looking for cost-efficient digital headends, replete with encoding, multiplexing and modulators, conditional access (CA) […]