CED articles from November 2000

CED archives from November 2000

Open access: It could get worse.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
November 1, 2000... One of the hottest techno-political conversations that's going on in boardrooms around the country these days centers on the issue of service convergence within a cable system. Engineers and network planners are taking good, long looks at their...

Corning swallows up Pirelli's optical components for $3.6B.(Pirelli Cables and Systems)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Corning is acquiring Pirelli's interest in its optical components and devices business for about $3.6 billion in cash. Pirelli, based in Milan, Italy, is a manufacturer of lithium niobate modulators, pump lasers, certain specialty fibers and...

SeaChange ships new video servers.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... SeaChange International is shipping its new ITV MediaCluster 4000 (IMC4000) video server, which provides video storage and streaming capacity for its interactive television (ITV) system. SeaChange's ITV system is a distributed software-based...

upfront.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... LATEST NEWS AND INSIGHT To help meet customer demand for its high-speed cable modem service, Time Warner Cable has purchased one million licenses of BroadJump Inc.'s Virtual Truck Installer. The self-installation software has helped the...

ADC purchases BAS in $2.25 billion stock deal.(ADC Telecommunications buys Broadband Access Systems)(Hybrid Networks' Wireless Broadband Router)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2000... ADC Telecommunications bought Broadband Access Systems (BAS) for $2.25 billion in stock to add products that deliver phone and high-speed Web services on cable TV lines. ADC paid between $34.127 to $41.711 a share and issued about 66 million...

Jump.Net selects Ramp Networks.(DSL Internet access hardware)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Jump.Net has selected Ramp Networks as its preferred supplier of business class DSL Internet access hardware. Jump.Net will offer high-speed DSL service with WebRamp 510l SDSL to small offices and telecommuters through Northpoint...

RCN continues expansion into Northern California.(Megaband Network)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... RCN Corp. has received regulatory approval to construct its high-capacity, Megaband Network in Millbrae, Redwood City, and San Carlos, Calif., and to offer residents its bundled phone, cable and high-speed Internet services, known as Resilink....

In-Flight Network takes the Internet to new heights.(new services for airline passengers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... In-Flight Network recently conducted live, air-to-ground demonstrations, previewing a new technology that will provide airline passengers with broadband Internet, e-mail and live TV services by early 2001. The air-to-ground sneak preview took...

FCC to resolve DTV labeling.(Federal Communications Commission adopts digital television labeling rules)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The FCC recently adopted rules for the labeling of digital television (DTV) receivers to ensure that consumers will be fully informed about the capabilities of DTV receivers to operate with cable television systems. The FCC's rules specify...

S-A. Unisys partner to offer VOD.(Scientific-Atlanta Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Scientific-Atlanta and Unisys are partnering to provide video-on-demand on ExpLorer digital interactive set-tops. Under the agreement, Unisys becomes a member of Scientific-Atlanta's CreativEdge Developer Program and will receive ongoing...

CableLabs certifies 14 more cable modems.(Cable Television Laboratories Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... CableLabs says 14 cable modems, including five universal serial bus (USB) "plug-and-play" type, have joined the ranks of the DOCSIS 1.0-certified. The USB modems are from 3 Com, Arris, Thomson, one from Terayon and one from Toshiba. ...

Juno adds high-speed Web access.(Juno Online Services Inc. expands service)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Juno Online Services Inc. is offering digital subscriber line (DSL) high-speed Internet access service to 39 new markets throughout the U.S. The new markets in which Juno Express DSL is now available include Sacramento, Calif., Las Vegas...

Starz Encore, TiVo kick off subscription VOD service.(Teleworld Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Starz Encore and TiVo are partnering to develop subscription video-on-demand (S-VOD) and pay-per-view video-on-demand for broadband subscribers of TiVo's Personal TV services. Starz Encore's subscription VOD service enables the impulse...

Microtune and Askey team to deliver DOCSIS and EuroDOCSIS cable modem products.(Microtune Inc. and Askey Computer Corp.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Microtune Inc. and Askey Computer Corp. are partnering to develop cable modem products. Under this alliance, Askey plans to deploy Microtune's DOCSIS-and EuroDOCSIS-certified tuners throughout its cable modem product line. As part of the...

Motorola ships 10-millionth set-top.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Motorola announced a major milestone recently with the shipment of its 10-millionth digital set-top. It is the first set-top supplier to achieve this milestone. This landmark joins others reached by the company, including the industry's first...

CableLabs selects three firms as OCAP authors.(Cable Television Laboratories Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... CableLabs has selected Sun Microsystems, Liberate and Microsoft to serve as primary authors of the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP), or middleware software, specification. By merging the power of the Internet with cable's broadband...

Network Appliance unlocks high-powered video software.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Network Appliance has introduced new content delivery software that provides VOD and content management capabilities for Internet content delivery. The NetCache 5.0 software is among a wave of products the company has designed to enable its...

AT&T selects Panasonic set-tops.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Matsushita Electric Corp. of America best known by its Panasonic brand name, will supply 1 million digital. set-top boxes to AT&T Broadband cable customers during the next three years. Through this alliance, the companies expect to expand...

Pie In the Sky?(interactive TV)
November 1, 2000... Interactive TV may offer all kinds of e-commerce revenues for all kinds of companies. Will operators get their cut? Interactive TV commerce, or "t-commerce" as it's become known, has been one of those futuristic services that has seemed to...

DIGITAL ADS.(using remultiplexors)
November 1, 2000... As digital set-top deployments spread, operators are fast approaching a critical mass in digital programming that demands they protect their ad revenues with digital-to-digital ad insertion Transitions can be hell. You've got one foot stuck...

ITV Your New Best Friend?(interactive TV)(Brief Article)(Column)
November 1, 2000... Seven things you need to know about interactive TV It used to be that interactive TV was the gently swirling eddy, minding its own business in the wide wake of broadcast digital TV. And what a wake it's been. Throughout the first half...

Hildenbrand breaks the mold.(Wilt Hildenbrand)(Interview)
November 1, 2000... Cablevision Systems technology guru outlines digital strategy No digital hand-wringing over at Cablevision Systems: Its plans to initiate a 100 percent swap-out of existing analog and digital boxes make it the most bullish MSO in the land....

Deploying a transparent DWDM network.(dense wavelength division multiplexing)
November 1, 2000... Classical optical technology delivers high quality of service Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) has made possible the recent bandwidth growth being driven by the explosion of Internet traffic. DWDM systems enable rapid bandwidth...

Questions loom over retail sale of modems.
November 1, 2000... Move to retail fraught with hidden dangers and obstacles Broadband is booming. Everywhere you look, there is a new report or a new study predicting the millions of subscribers for high-speed Internet services, with nothing but more growth...

business people.
November 1, 2000... Alex Best has announced his retirement from Cox Communications effective at the end of the year. Since 1986, Best has overseen the design, development and implementation of all engineering functions for the company. His most recent job title...

High reliability: Pulling back the datacom curtain.(computer hardware and software)
November 1, 2000... How to analyze hardware and software systems In order for the Internet to become the communications network, datacom infrastructure suppliers will have to stop talking about "carrier class" and actually deliver telecom-grade products. ...

Enabling advanced services with DOCSIS 1.1.(cable modems)
November 1, 2000... Conquering latency, jitter, packet loss and more The cable modem has certainly arrived. Starting with a few thousand units shipped to pioneering subscribers in 1995, more than one million have now been installed. High-speed Internet access...

Cable-commerce having growing pains.(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... E- and T-commerce showing potential, but questions remain Cable operators eyeing the staggering potential of e-commerce shouldn't count their change anytime soon, because getting to the point of being able to be a viable middleman between...

Competition breeds innovation.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The various ramifications of all the proposed overbuild activity in the cable services market was a hot topic of conversation at a recent gathering of local government telecom officials at the annual NATOA (National Association of...

BUSINESS BRIEFS.
November 1, 2000... Trilithic, AM ink integration pact INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.--Under a systems integration agreement, AM Communications Inc.'s OmniStat Network Monitoring System will be able to monitor, log and display measurements made by Trilithic Inc.'s...

New products.
November 1, 2000... PRODUCT REVIEWS Multi-channel raceway MILWAUKEE, Wis.--Hellermann Tyton has introduced its InfoStream multi-channel raceway, which features an elliptically-shaped profile. The rounded profile offers a sleek appearance and also helps...

A change of climate in Washington.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Over the past eight years, the cable industry has received more than its fair share of abuse in Washington. This was partly because of former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt's anti-cable feelings, and partly because Tom Bliley, representing a district...

Creating a Broadband World.
November 1, 2000... ADC's `triple play' package of network solutions As networks expand to include edgy new technologies, advanced services and ever-changing equipment and software, traditional video-only networks are fast giving way to sophisticated systems...

ADC boasts new product levels.
November 1, 2000... Growing network demands and advancing services are pushing ADC to new product heights The collision between traditional network architectures, emerging technologies and advanced services is redefining communications as we know it, and...

ADC Uniworx[TM]--One Access and Transport Platform for TDM, Video and IP Services.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Uniworx[TM] is a multi-service optical networking platform that dramatically improves the economics of growing SONET/SDH and video transport networks, while providing a built-in migration path to higher margin IP-based services. Operators can...

DWDM Digital Technology in the Return Path.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The cable plant is fast changing into a two-way network. The cable plant has always had a forward band and a return band, but up until recently, the return path bandwidth was not utilized completely. The return band was used for monitoring the...

ADC Broadband Network Solutions.(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... HFC Design Formulas and Conversions Formulas: RF Performance: [CTB.sup.2] = [CTB.sup.1]- 2([Lvl.sup.1]- [Lvl.sup.2]) [CSO.sup.2] = [CSO.sup.1]- 1.5([Lvl.sup.1]- [Lvl.sup.2]) [CTB.sup.2] = [20LOG (CH. [Load.sup.1]/CH. [Load.sup.2])...

How to use this Guide.(Brief Article)
November 15, 2000... Within the Databook section, you'll find deployment forecasts and industry intelligence on all sorts of broadband technologies and services You're holding in your hands the broadband industry's most complete and authoritative guide to...

Entertainment driving adoption of home networks.(Brief Article)
November 15, 2000... Consumers want freedom of choice, mobility The market for home-entertainment networks will experience tremendous growth in the next five years, exploding from $150 million in consumer sales in 2000 to $3.4 billion in 2004, according to a...

DSL will vault to broadband leadership.(Brief Article)
November 15, 2000... Telcos have deep pockets, lower infrastructure investments While the next few years will be prosperous for both cable and DSL broadband providers, the outlook is particularly bright for telcos. The number of worldwide DSL (digital...

DOCSIS drives cable modem deployment.(Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specification)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2000... Standards-based deployments offer attractive ROI By mid-2000, North American multiple system operators (MSOs) were offering cable modem service to 48 million homes in the United States and Canada, more than 40 percent of all cable homes...

Wireless broadband playing critical role to all.
November 15, 2000... Bringing broadband access to the local loop Wireless broadband is finally here. The limitations of conventional, wired broadband technologies have become evident, and service providers are turning to various wireless technologies as a...

Service providers evaluate case for packet voice.
November 15, 2000... IP telephony vs. circuit switching `Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." In the early 1990s, the federal government gradually loosened its controls over the Internet, with consequences unimagined by telephone...

The wireless broadband market comes of age.
November 15, 2000... Largest revenue potential lies in business market The broadband revolution has finally arrived, and one particular component of broadband--wireless services--promises to deliver greater levels of speed, choice, convenience and functionality...

A-Z listings.
November 15, 2000... AB Chance Co. (Hubbell Power Systems) (573) 682-5521 Fax: (573) 682-8714 E-mail: vjengle@hps.hubbell.com Web: www.hubbell.com/abchance 210 N. Allen...

Broadband Networks.
November 15, 2000... Headend/central office equipment Addressable controllers Manufacturer Arena Services Inc. (610) 279-8000 Avantron Technologies Inc. (514) 725-665 Cable Link Inc. ...

Fiber and Digital Equipment.
November 15, 2000... Fiber optics Amplifiers Manufacturer ACI Communications Inc. (253) 854-9802 Anritsu Co. (800) 267-4878 ANTEC Corp. (678)...

Interactive TV.
November 15, 2000... Customer premise equipment Addressable set-tops Manufacturer Aegis Broadband Inc. (858) 675-6490 Arena Services Inc. (610) 279-8000 Broadband Innovations ...

Internet Access and Telephony.
November 15, 2000... Data communications equipment Bridges Manufacturer ECI Telecom (703) 456-3400 Fiberdyne Labs Inc. (315) 866-0310 Fujitsu Network Communications ...

Network Testing.
November 15, 2000... Test equipment Automated FCC testing gear Manufacturer Acterna Corp. Cable Networks Division (317) 788-9351 (800) 622-5515 Fax: ...

Construction, Contractors, Repairs and Miscellaneous Services.
November 15, 2000... Construction equipment Anchors Manufacturer AB Chance Co. (Hubbell Power Systems) (573) 682-5521 Arena Services Inc. (610) 279-8000 Foresight Products LLC ...

Distributors, Used Equipment, Resources and Events.
November 15, 2000... Distributors/ manufacturers' reps Amherst Fiber Optics (615) 376-4396 Apex Communications Supply Inc. (208) 762-5064 Broadband Services Inc. ...

Company URL Listings.
November 15, 2000... A AB Chance Co. (Hubbell Power Systems) www.hubbell.com/abchance AC Data Systems Inc. www.surgeblox.com ACD Inc. www.acdpa.com ACI Communications Inc. ...

State Associations.
November 15, 2000... Alabama Cable TV Association 334-271-2281 Fax: 334-271-2260 1320 Carmichael Way Montgomery, AL 36106 Mary John Martin, Executive Director Arizona Cable TV Association 602-955-4122 Fax:...