CT's Pipeline articles from August 2004

CT's Pipeline archives from August 2004

Medicom Trials FSO Technology.(Free space optics)
August 3, 2004... Free space optics (FSO), a license-free technology originally developed more than 30 years ago by the military and NASA, has found its way into a Mediacom Communications customer trial in Valdosta, GA. Mediacom is using light emitting diode...

SCTE's Robin Fenton Appointed to ANSI Board of Standards Review.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers)(American National Standards Institute)(Brief Article)
August 3, 2004... Robin Fenton, Standards Administrator in the SCTE (www.scte.org) Standards Department, was recently appointed to the American National Standards Institute's Board of Standards Review by ANSI's Executive Committee. The Board of Standards Review...

Put the Best to Work.(Brief Article)
August 3, 2004... The Cable and Telecommunications Human Resources Association (www.cthra.com) is hosting its "Putting the Best to Work Symposium" on Oct. 19, at the Ernst and Young Building in New York City. The one-day conference will feature educational...

RBOCs or DBS?
August 3, 2004... From an engineering perspective, who are you looking out for most? In five years, will it be DBS or RBOCs that will be your biggest competition? If you'd like to share your opinion with other Pipeline readers, send an email to...

Attend Next Month's "Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium".(Brief Article)
August 3, 2004... Presented by SCTE and Communications Technology magazine, this one-day, hot-topic event -- sponsored by Acterna, ARRIS, Auspice, Cisco Systems, Level 3, Motorola, Nortel, Siemens and Sigma Systems -- is set for Tues., Sept. 14 in Philadelphia....

Supercomm: Look Beyond the Obvious to Keep a Competitive Edge.(trade show)
August 10, 2004... Here's a special report from KnowledgeLink's Justin J. Junkus on June's Supercomm event in Chicago. It's easy to presume that not much can be gained by visiting another tradeshow one week after SCTE's (www.scte.org) Cable-Tec Expo and only...

Bundle Up: Verizon/DIRECTV.(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... Verizon is expanding its bundle with DIRECTV from New Jersey to West Virginia, offering "an opportunity to save money and cut away from their cable company forever," according to the company. Customers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,...

SMBBook Available from Cisco.(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... Cisco Network Design Solutions for Small-Medium Businesses is a new book from Cisco Press. It zeros in on critical solutions for networking professionals who are deploying computer networks within a small or medium-sized business. It addresses...

RBOCs or DBS?
August 10, 2004... From an engineering perspective, who are you looking out for most? In five years, will it be DBS or RBOCs that will be your biggest competition? If you'd like to share your opinion with other Pipeline readers, send an email to...

Who Should Attend Next Month's "Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium"?(Brief Article)
August 10, 2004... Presented by SCTE and Communications Technology magazine, this one-day, hot-topic event--set for Tuesday, Sept. 14 in Philadelphia--is designed for new business development managers, voice operations managers, voice/data business managers, and...

Operators Get Serious About Serious Interactive Apps.(Open Cable Applications Platform)
August 17, 2004... The announcement last week of OCAP (Open Cable Applications Platform) Development LLC, a joint venture by Comcast and Time Warner Cable, indicates how earnestly operators are taking the prospect of interactive applications on their digital...

Cox Subs Get More Data Speed, Overnight.
August 17, 2004... "Consumer research shows that speed remains the most important feature customers look for when evaluating an Internet service," Steve Gorman, VP of product management and marketing for Cox High Speed Internet, says. That's why last week,...

Help Your Subs Build Their HD Confidence.(high definition)
August 17, 2004... Are your subs confused about high-definition TV (HDTV)? Are you looking for a resource to train your installers on this rapidly growing service? Then you may want to check out Scientific-Atlanta's (www.scientificatlanta.com) new HDTV training...

RBOCs or DBS?(Direct Broadcast Satellite)(Regional Bell Operating Company)
August 17, 2004... From an engineering perspective, who are you looking out for most? In five years, will it be DBS or RBOCs that will be your biggest competition? If you'd like to share your opinion with other Pipeline readers, send an email to...

"Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium" Less Than a Month Away.
August 17, 2004... Presented by SCTE and Communications Technology magazine, this one-day, hot-topic event -- set for Tues., Sept. 14 in Philadelphia -- is designed for engineers, new business development managers, voice operations managers, and voice/data...

VoIP Mistakes: Catch Them Before You Make Them.
August 24, 2004... Which best engineering practices should you use to roll out and maintain VoIP services over your HFC nets? How do you do it cost-effectively? Does your technical team have the IP know-how to make it all happen? How do you ensure you don't make...

A Cable WISP in Tom Green County.
August 24, 2004... Consolidation -- if not profitability -- has long shaped the multichannel multipoint distribution service (MMDS) space. NexTel (www.nextel.com) and Sprint (www.sprint.com) each have accumulated one third of the 2.5-2.6 GHz MMDS licenses in the...

FTTH Conference to Feature IT Policymaking Heavy-Hitter.(Fiber-to-the-Home)(Information Technology)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2004... The Fiber-to-the-Home Council announced that Congressman Rick Boucher, a leader in federal information technology policymaking, will give the opening speech at the organization's Conference & Expo 2004 with an open forum dialogue on the morning...

Who's the Bigger Threat: RBOCs or DBS?(Brief Article)
August 24, 2004... From an engineering perspective, who are you looking out for most? In five years, will it be DBS or RBOCs that will be your biggest competition? If you'd like to share your opinion with other Pipeline readers, send an email to...

VoIP Symposium's Early-Bird Deadline Looms.(Voice over Internet Protocol)
August 24, 2004... Engineers, new business development managers, voice operations managers, and voice/data business managers: You have only until the end of next week (Fri., Sept. 3) to save $$$ on pre-registration for the "Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium."...

Consumer VoIP to Boom 100 Times Its '03 Size.(Voice over Internet Protocol)
August 31, 2004... VoIP technology will be used to serve close to 1 million consumers by the end of 2004, and serve 17.5 million U.S. households by the close of 2008, according to a Yankee Group (www.yankeegroup.com) report released last week. Compare those...

Who's the Bigger Threat: RBOCs or DBS?(Letter to the Editor)
August 31, 2004... Here's a letter we received in response the above question, posed in last week's issue. "Great question! I think that there is little doubt that five years from now, the broadband landscape will have a new look. The cable industry has done...

Eastern Europe Conference to Focus on Broadband Tech Trends.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2004... The EEBC 2004 Conference (www.eebc.com.ua) in Kiev, Ukraine set for Oct. 13-15, will include several seminars and sessions of interest to broadband cable engineers. These include: "The Broadband Distribution Networks. Technologies and...

Cable vs. RBOCs or Cable vs. DBS?
August 31, 2004... From an engineering perspective, who are you looking out for most? In five years, will it be DBS or RBOCs that will be your biggest competition? If you'd like to share your opinion with other Pipeline readers, send an email to...

VoIP Symposium's Early-Bird Deadline Is Friday!
August 31, 2004... Engineers, new business development managers, voice operations managers, and voice/data business managers: You have only until the end of this week (Fri., Sept. 3) to save $$$ on pre-registration for the "Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium."...