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12/01/2005
Technology on Parade—Fast Pace
Once a year, it's a good planning exercise to step back and review where you are going and what's driving you. That statement holds true for technologies, industries, companies and individuals. At the end of the year, and on the 10th anniversary of this column, I thought it would be particularly appropriate to look at what 2005 brought cable engineers, especially in telephony, and where we seem to be headed.
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11/29/2005
On the Circuit
For years we’ve been telling lovely cable PR hand Portia Badham she should be in movies. She’s taken our advice and can be seen in print ads for Lipitor and TV ads for Raymour & Flanigan Furniture in the Philly, NY/NJ/CT metro area and upstate NY and western PA. She’ll be handling arrangements for the […]
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11/22/2005
Cisco to Buy Scientific-Atlanta
Today’s lead story was going to be about Jones International Academy’s acquisition of NCTI, an important deal that bears upon training issues that we follow closely. (See today’s letters.) Then came the 8 a.m. alert last Friday for a press conference featuring the CEOs of Scientific-Atlanta and Cisco. We’ll return to JIA/NCTI next week. For […]
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10/31/2005
CVC or CIA? What Did Comcast Give Up?
After Cablevision signed a deal putting OLN on its digital tier, Cablevision phoned to alert us to Mac Budill’s statement that the 2 reached "agreement with Comcast in a number of areas." So what other areas? Cablevision can’t say. (Please, nobody ever make a bid on CVC-we love those guys!) But clearly, Cablevision was making […]
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10/06/2005
IP-Based Networking
This week’s lead story on DVRs calls to mind an article written by Ucentric Systems’ Patrick Donovan last December. (Motorola bought Ucentric in January.) In it, he outlines some of the benefits of IP-based networking: http://www.ct-magazine.com/archives/ct/1204/1204_networkingthedigital.htm Archived Interview And speaking of Arroyo, for an interview from last December with the firm’s CTO Paul Sherer, visit […]