CT's Pipeline articles from April 2005

CT's Pipeline archives from April 2005

Kudos to Hildebrand, Ellis and Pioneers.(awards for Wilt Hildebrand and Leslie Ellis)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2005... Cablevision Systems EVP of Engineering and Technology Wilt Hildebrand was honored on Monday night at the NCTA National Show as the winner of this year's Vanguard Award for Science and Technology. Celebrating its 40th year, the Vanguard...

Career Engineer: Election Results.
April 5, 2005... At-Large Directors Thomas Gorman, Charter Communications Sally Kinsman, Aurora Networks (re-elected) Region 1 Director Tom Maguire, CommScope (re-elected) Region 2 Director Frank Eichenlaub, Scientific-Atlanta...

Broadband Soapbox: What to do with 100 Mbps?(DOCSIS 3.0 bandwidth standards)(Brief Article)
April 5, 2005... Several vendors were talking wideband DOCSIS at the National Show. A new chip from BroadLogic Network Technologies, for instance, made its way into a Cisco Systems Linksys modem "channel bonding" booth demo. CableLabs has yet to resolve...

Letters to Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
April 5, 2005... Congrats to Erich Westphal, a Comcast network engineer, who won a copy of Modern Cable Television Technology (second edition) as a result of his name having been drawn from among those who responded to our last broadband soapbox. Here are...

SCTE Announcements.
April 5, 2005... SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2005 Promises to Be a Grand Event Attendee registration is in full swing; exhibit space is filling up. In a little more than two months, SCTE will bring you "Broadband Progress as Big as Texas." The event's Web site,...

Pipeline Profile: NCTA: The Names Behind the Papers in 'Frisco.(National Cable and Telecommunications Association)
April 5, 2005... Here's a bulleted list of the engineers who wrote this year's NCTA Technical Papers (to order a copy, see below) and presented at the following panels in San Francisco. "Premises, Promises: Next-Gen Schemes for In-home Services...

Feature Story: Time Warner Pushes Video Technology.
April 12, 2005... We interrupt the ongoing voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) coverage to remind you that video is not standing still. Consider Time Warner Cable's road map, for instance. Among the initiatives in the works are analog simulcast in the...

Career Engineer: Cable Discusses Convergence Opportunity.
April 12, 2005... The talk that surfaced at last year's Expo over the convergence of fixed and mobile services has gathered steam in the interim, with vendors from Motorola to Cedar Point to C9 Networks to Nortel stepping into this void with solutions and...

Letters to Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
April 12, 2005... More book blurbs From our previous broadband soapbox question, more praise for Modern Cable Television Technology: "I read the first edition and applied it into my job. Honestly, I think it's a wonderful 'key' book...." Roberto...

Broadband Soapbox.
April 12, 2005... What can a nonbusiness subscriber do with 100 Mbps? Somebody better have an answer because that's what DOCSIS 3.0 might well enable. CableLabs has yet to resolve certain debates surrounding the emerging specification, although some...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
April 12, 2005... Congratulations, once again, to Vanguard Award winner Wilt Hildenbrand, Cablevision System's EVP, engineering and technology. Our apologies--we misspelled his name last week. Frank Eichenlaub and Dan Murphy won their elections to the SCTE...

SCTE Announcements.
April 12, 2005... SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2005 Only Two Months Away Have you visited the event's Web site yet? Attendee registration is in full swing; exhibit space is filling up. SCTE will bring you "Broadband Progress As Big As Texas." The event's Web site,...

Pipeline Profile: Brady Volpe.(Interview)
April 12, 2005... SCTE member since 1995 Title : Director of Technical Marketing, Filtronic Sigtek Broadband Background : Volpe is a leading expert on troubleshooting DOCSIS networks. While at Filtronic Sigtek, he pioneered the ST-261 DOCSIS Protocol...

Premises, Promises: NCTA Session Provides Insight into Cable's Future.
April 19, 2005... Some futurists see home networking and wireless applications as leading candidates for cable's next hot applications, and this year's National Show included plenty of discussion on both. One of the earlier sessions titled "Premises,...

Letters to Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
April 19, 2005... From last week's broadband soapbox question, here are some possible answers to "What can a nonbusiness subscriber do with 100 Mbps?" Bandwidth use is going to continue to increase, and we'll see new applications that not even the most...

Broadband Soapbox.
April 19, 2005... So CableLabs opted for the packet bonding over MPEG bonding. Thanks to Cable Digital News for breaking the story. The DOCSIS 3.0 spec marches on, though not without some question as to whether it's being built on the correct physical layer....

SCTE Announcements.
April 19, 2005... Make Your Plans for SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2005 Have you visited the event's Web site yet? Attendee registration is in full swing; exhibit space is filling up. SCTE will bring you "Broadband Progress as Big as Texas." The event's Web site,...

Pipeline Profile: Mario Rainville.(interview)(Interview)
April 19, 2005... Pushing Toward All-Digital and Cable's 'Edge' SCTE member since 2004 Title: Associate Vice President, Product Marketing, Scopus Network Technologies Broadband Background: Rainville garnered significant product development...

CableLabs Bonds Over DOCSIS 3.0.(Cable Television Laboratories Inc., data over cable service interface specification)
April 26, 2005... Modularization and channel bonding are the big news in the next revision of Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) 3.0, which is likely to be in operator labs sometime this year and in products in 2006. DOCSIS 3.0,...

Letters to Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
April 26, 2005... The prospects for Wideband technology in the European market Here's a comment we received in response to last week's Broadband Soapbox, which raised the topic of how soon wideband technology might be adopted outside of North America. ...

Broadband Soapbox.
April 26, 2005... As Broadband Physics President and CEO Mark Laubach notes in the accompanying interview, the greater susceptibility of higher order modulations to noise impairments is a matter of physics. This is a topic that Ron Hranac frequently touches...

SCTE Announcements.
April 26, 2005... You've Visited the Expo Web Site, Right? If for whatever reason you haven't, check it out today! Jump on and get all the great details of what's in store for you at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in June in San Antonio. Attendee registration is in...

Pipeline Profile: Mark Laubach.(Interview)
April 26, 2005... SDM, Shannon's Limit and DOCSIS 3.0 SCTE Member Since 1996 Title: President/CEO Broadband Physics Broadband Background: Laubach previously served as CTO of Rainmaker Technologies, a predecessor to Broadband Physics. He co-founded...