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10/01/2004
VoIP Reliability
Voice over Internet protocol—VoIP—is a popular topic these days. It's gone beyond the "VoIP is still a couple years away" stage and is now being rolled out in a number of trials and even some full-blown deployments with paying customers. But there is a much-too-common myth out there: "High-speed data works fine in my system, so voice should be no problem."
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09/01/2004
Backtalk
Arroyo Video Solutions tapped Kim D. Kelly to be its new president and CEO. Founding CEO of Arroyo Paul Sherer will become executive vice president of technology and chief technology officer. Prior to joining Arroyo, Kelly served as president and COO of Insight Communications.
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09/01/2004
Making the Best Better
For the past several months I've been perusing a new reference that's found a home on my trusty engineering bookshelf: Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice, and Data Communications, 2nd Edition, by Walter Ciciora, James Farmer, David Large and Michael Adams; Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2004; ISBN 1-55860-828-1. Like my copy of the first edition, this one is getting regular use, lots of sticky-notes as bookmarks, and the beginning of what will undoubtedly become a thoroughly tattered cover.
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06/21/2004
Warmth in Orlando
"The nuclear winter is over" was the clich� bouncing around SCTE’s Expo in Orlando last week as VoIP’s vast potential had most of the 10,300 attendees smiling (attendance was 10,600 last year). The 375 exhibitors represented a 5% jump vs ’03 and the 70 first- time exhibitors indicate cable tech looks sunnier. —Laura Hamilton, CT […]
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06/01/2004
Digitally Modulated Carrier CNR
We have, for as long as I can remember, been concerned with carrier-to-noise ratio (C/N or CNR) in our networks. CNR, in cable industry vernacular, is a pre-detection measurement—that is, a measurement made in the frequency domain. By definition, CNR is the difference, in decibels, between the amplitude of an RF signal and the amplitude of noise present in the RF signal’s transmission path.
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05/26/2004
Honors
BET led the nominations for Cable Positive’s 3rd annual POP Awards, with 6 . The POPs recognize outstanding HIV/AIDs-related cable programming. Winners will be announced at a ceremony June 22 in NY. Fellow Viacom- [VIA] net Showtime was 2nd in noms with 4, while HBO and MTV each earned 3 and VH1 received 2. A&E, […]