CED articles from October 2005

CED archives from October 2005

VOD 'condos' rekindle the nPVR.(Video-on-demand)
October 1, 2005... A new interpretation of the old court decision could open the door (or a can of worms, depending on where your paychecks originate) on the concept of the network-based personal video recorder, or nPVR. As you might recall, programming...

Comcast, SES Americom centralize simulcast.(Comcast Media Center)
October 1, 2005... The Comcast Media Center (CMC) and SES Americom have teamed on a centrally-located digital simulcast encoding platform for cable operators. The offering essentially amounts to a "buy" versus "make" decision on the encoding level for cable...

Samsung reaches two-way milestone.(upfront: LATEST NEWS AND INSIGHT)(Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Samsung Electronics has become the first television maker to win CableLabs certification for an interactive, two-way digital television equipped with OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) middleware. It marks a significant milestone for...

Real-time encryption could break VOD limits.(upfront: LATEST NEWS AND INSIGHT)(Video-on-demand)
October 1, 2005... Harmonic Inc. has added real-time content encryption capabilities to its VOD transport platform, a move that should make advanced on-demand applications like network-based personal video recording a much easier proposition for operators. ...

TI chips in Wideband, cellular support.(upfront: LATEST NEWS AND INSIGHT)(Texas Instruments Inc.)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Texas Instruments has introduced a new cable chipset that incorporates cellular codecs and a "Wideband" reference design based on the forthcoming DOCSIS 3.0 specification. TI's DSP-based TNETC47xx (Puma-4) voice-over-cable chipset comes...

Concurrent nabs Everstream for $15m.(upfront: LATEST NEWS AND INSIGHT)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Concurrent Computer Corp. went into acquisition mode this summer, putting up $15 million in stock for video-on-demand reporting and statistics specialist Everstream Holdings Inc. Everstream's $4 DataSuite monitors and analyzes data from VOD...

Express lane: postal mail patterns unchanged despite new technologies.
October 1, 2005... The year 1857 had been an unexpectedly tough one for the freight delivery firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell. Saboteurs had destroyed three wagon trains, a debilitating winter delayed shipments, and the U.S. War Department was defaulting on...

Game changers: SIP and IMS spell out a new future for cable VoIP.
October 1, 2005... Two acronyms--SIP and IMS--are poised to spell a big difference in how the technology behind IP telephony services plays out in cable's not-too-distant future. Their emergence has come several years after the cable industry made some...

Speed on the ground * in the air.(Several technologies)( VDSL2 )
October 1, 2005... Several technologies are making leaps of speed on the ground and in the air. Some are here today; others are still on the horizon. Here is a quick snapshot of these different broadband access technologies, the capabilities they purport to...

Speed in the home.
October 1, 2005... While current- and next-generation access technologies will pipe content from the network to the home, a variety of wired and wireless home networking technologies have emerged (or are evolving) that will enable consumers to shuttle, share and...

Managing capacity in DOCSIS multi-service nets, Part 1: new toolkit provides enhanced monitoring of resources.
October 1, 2005... The emerging IP multi-service cable network delivers the promise of voice, video, and data over a consolidated DOCSIS access network platform. For cable operators, this converged access network offers increased efficiencies and economies of...

Getting through to MDUs: cable operators find more challenges in multi-family segment.
October 1, 2005... Cable operators have always made single-fancily homes their biggest target for residential services, but with rising pressure from satellite and now telco competitors, the high-rise in the center of town is becoming a bigger bull's-eye as well....

K.I.S.S.(Keep It Simple, Stupid)
October 1, 2005... Technologists love acronyms. One used for many years by design engineers is K.I.S.S., for "Keep It Simple, Stupid." But this important rule is more honored in the breach than in compliance. Consumer electronics products are the most egregious...

View from the top: Wayne Davis of Charter Communications.
October 1, 2005... Welcome to the first edition of CED's "View from the top," a series of interviews with the top minds of the broadband industry. In addition to an excerpted recap in each issue, we also invite you to view each interview online. In this...

Breaking away: Aptiv Digital starts anew with interactive guides and apps.
October 1, 2005... Gemstar-TV Guide International issued a curious news release in late August, announcing it had granted Pioneer Corp. an interactive program guide (IPG) patent license for the European market. The curious part, or at least the big question,...

Adapter.(UAD28 BNC-to-BNC adapter )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- Trompeter has introduced the UAD28 BNC-to-BNC adapter for 75-ohm coaxial transmission line applications. The engineering and construction of the UAD28 adapter enables public and private net work service providers to...

Multi-wavelength laser.(Peleton)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... OTTAWA, Canada -- Peleton has announced the availability of the TM3050C multi-wavelength laser source. The TM3050C is a compact, flat-spectrum, high-power laser offering cost-per-wavelength savings over traditional multi-wavelength test...

VoIP management.(new products: PRODUCT REVIEWS)(Incognito Software Inc. introduces ENUM Commander)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Incognito Software has released the ENUM Commander, which allows VoIP service providers to manage inter-office translation peering, thus removing the reliance on SS7 systems, simplifying operations and lowering the costs...

Field polisher.(fiber-to-the-home)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... MORGANVILLE, N.J. -- Krell Technologies has introduced the Proton FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) field polisher, which achieves Telcordia compliant, singlemode UPC and APC finishes in a handheld and battery-operated package. Proton incorporates the...

IPTV and FCC regulations.(capital currents)(Federal Communications Commission)(Internet Protocol Television)
October 1, 2005... The FCC imposes a number of "social regulations" on broadcasters, cable operators and phone companies, requirements like closed captioning, content ratings, emergency alerts, 911 emergency calling and wiretapping capability. These regulations...