CT's Pipeline articles from December 2007

CT's Pipeline archives from December 2007

A Look into the Crystal Ball.
December 4, 2007... Werner Trendsets at CableNEXT Last week's inaugural CableNEXT event drew more than 80 speakers to the Santa Clara Convention Center, including Comcast CTO Tony Werner. Werner's opening keynote sketched these five 5-year trends: (1)...

Engineering News.
December 4, 2007... SIP Trunking as a Business Service In a recent training session on business voice systems that I conducted for a group of cable technicians, one of the participants asked whether Internet protocol (IP) private branch exchanges (PBXs)...

Broadband Soapbox: Do We Really Want HDTV?
December 4, 2007... In today's lead story, Comcast CTO Tony Werner is noted as having said HD can be expected to eclipse SD in the next five years. There's certainly a drive toward HD among cable ops, DBS, and broadcasters and programmers, and some gold- plated...

SCTE Announcements.
December 4, 2007... Get Ready for ET's Forward-Focused Tech Sessions "Integrator or Pipeline? Transcending Transport in a Hyperconnected World." That's the theme of SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) 2008. In line with that intriguing theme, ET...

Pipeline Profile: Saifur Rahman.
December 4, 2007... SCTE member since 2004 Title: Principal Engineer, Comcast Cable Communications Broadband Background: Rahman works in national engineering and technical operations for Comcast. Your DOCSIS migration methodology paper includes a...

More Future-Casting.
December 11, 2007... ETs Past and Present The ambitious goal of the SCTE Conference on Emerging Technology is to encourage presenters and attendees to look ahead three to five years. Given how difficult it is for business planners to project even one quarter...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
December 11, 2007... Do We Really Want HDTV? Here's a reply we received in reply to last week's Soapbox question, in which we asked whether "Joe Basic Subscriber" is more likely to lay out the big bucks for an HD set or to keep his legacy box until it dies...

Broadband Soapbox: That Tricky Future.
December 11, 2007... As noted in today's lead story, predicting the future is a tricky business. What are some of your favorite mis-predictions and other dreams that didn't come true? Let us know. [Copyright 2006 Access Intelligence, LLC. All rights reserved.]...

SCTE Announcements.
December 11, 2007... Renowned Futurist to Address ET 2008 Attendees SCTE is pleased to announce today that Glen Hiemstra, known worldwide for his proficiency as a futurist, will share his insights at SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) 2008 as the...

Pipeline Profile: Tom Buttermore.
December 11, 2007... SCTE member since 2004 Title: Vice president and general manager, Global MSO Solutions, Nortel Broadband Background: Prior to joining Nortel, Buttermore served as vice president of data and voice engineering and operations at Adelphia...

The Year in Review.
December 18, 2007... One Look Ahead; Many Looks Back A note last week from the 2006 keynoter at the SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET), futurist Jim Carroll, served as a reminder that some of our stories have long shelf lives. One of Carroll's...

Engineering News.
December 18, 2007... Business Services: All in the Delivery How can cable compete with the telcos in the business services market? On Oct. 18, vendors and operators gathered in Atlanta for the SCTE Hot Topic Symposium on Business Services and examined that...

Broadband Soapbox: More HD.
December 18, 2007... As anyone who watches this industry knows, there's a good bit of hype around high definition video right now. This story from yesterday's CT Reports lines out some of it: "Over 70 national channels";"85 of the best national channels in...

SCTE Announcements.
December 18, 2007... ET Savings End Friday! You'll save $100 if you register for SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) 2008 by this Friday, Dec. 21. Sign up now and get set for a valuable exchange of high-level, strategic views of the technical...

Pipeline Profile.
December 18, 2007... In lieu of the usual Q&A that graces the Pipeline Profile space, we're offering this week a selection of interviews that ran over the previous 12 months. Enjoy this look back over this year, as well as the holidays ahead. Saifur Rahman...