CT's Pipeline articles from February 2007

CT's Pipeline archives from February 2007

One for the record books: A banner year for SCTE standards.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers)
February 6, 2007... The SCTE standards program broke records last year. Thirty-one revisions and 19 brand-new standards made it through their respective committees and were approved by the engineering committee (EC). This compares to only 20 making it to final...

Device Shifting: The San Diego TV-to-PC Trial.
February 6, 2007... Two key ways for cable companies to demonstrate that network functionality is evolving to accommodate their subscribers' busy, changing lifestyles are time shifting and device shifting. Time shifting refers to the ability for viewers to have...

Broadband Soapbox: Tells Us Your Service Call Horror Stories.
February 6, 2007... Last year, we asked for war stories about bashed and abused equipment, and our readers responded in droves. The lesson there is that in the field, anything that can go wrong will, from drilling through electrical outlets to finding drop...

SCTE Announcements.
February 6, 2007... CBL&D Call for Papers Deadline Is Friday Submit your proposal for educational, learning and development, and human performance improvement related topics. SCTE Conference on Broadband Learning & Development (CBL&D) 2007 is set for...

Pipeline Profile: Dermot O'Carroll.(dialogue with Dermot O'Carroll of Rogers Cable Communications Inc.)(Interview)
February 6, 2007... Wireless, Telephony, Diversity Title: SVP Engineering and Network Operations, Rogers Cable Communications Broadband Background: Dermot O'Carroll is senior vice president of engineering and network operations for Rogers Cable...

Random Notes.
February 13, 2007... A few random notes (with apologies to CableFAX 's Paul Maxwell.) Assuming it wasn't a hoax, the lawyers finally stopped billing hours and Time Warner Cable is set to begin trading as a public company under the TWC symbol, as early as...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
February 13, 2007... Service Horror Last week we asked for your service call horror stories. Here's a good one. I'm sure you're getting some real gems of service call horror stories. But not all the horror stories are from subscribers. Many years ago,...

Broadband Soapbox: Tells Us Your Service Call Horror Stories.
February 13, 2007... Last year, we asked for war stories about bashed and abused equipment, and our readers responded in droves. The lesson there is that in the field, anything that can go wrong will, from drilling through electrical outlets to finding drop...

SCTE Announcements.
February 13, 2007... Troubleshooting Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Seminar Set for Boston Area SCTE will present its two-day seminar in Boxborough, Mass., Tuesday through Wednesday, Feb. 27-28, and has scheduled it for five other metro areas (Denver,...

Pipeline Profile: Deb Swann.
February 13, 2007... Title: vice president of marketing and business development, SCTE Broadband Background: Swann worked for nearly 30 years for Verizon Communications in Philadelphia before accepting early retirement from the company in 2004. She began her...

The HD Sun Keeps Rising.
February 20, 2007... HDTV Rising - that was the title of an article we wrote four years ago that focused on lessons learned at Cox Las Vegas and Time Warner Cable Raleigh, NC, but the sun in its high-def splendor is still rising. A few sun-rising items of...

IMS Roundup And Trail Drive.
February 20, 2007... The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) space is confused. Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Graham Finnie was writing in early January of "anarchy" among application layer vendors. IMS itself is a peculiar animal. Born a wireless specification, it has...

Broadband Soapbox: HD Delays?
February 20, 2007... What's kept high-definition television from rising more quickly in the cable arena? And what are the remaining obstacles going forward? Lack of content? Consumer (mis)education? Relatively high price points? Bandwidth constraints? Network...

SCTE Announcements.
February 20, 2007... SCTE Launches New Distance Education Program The program offers flexible scheduling and instructor interaction to maximize learning about cutting-edge technology. The online courses scheduled for 2007 cover such topics as IPv6, Ethernet...

Pipeline Profile: Howard Watson.(dialogue with Howard Watson of ntl Telewest)(Interview)
February 20, 2007... Title: CTO, ntl Telewest Broadband Background: Howard Watson is chief technology and information officer for ntl Telewest, the result of a merger between the two largest cable operators in the UK that closed in March 2006. Last July, the...

A Different Sort of VOD: Optimum Promotes Metro Ethernet 'On-Demand'.
February 27, 2007... Optimum Lightpath, Cablevision Systems' hard-charging commercial arm, has introduced a VOD offering unlikely to top any date-night list of things to watch. It could, however, gather its own niche audience among information technology (IT)...

Digital Voice Case Studies: Small Ops, Big Experience.(Brief article)
February 27, 2007... When you've been delivering voice services as long as Buckeye Cable - a little more than eight years - you learn a few lessons. For instance, truck rolls will always be a part of life. For another instance, not every subscriber wants...

Broadband Soapbox: Ethernet, Pain, and the Future.
February 27, 2007... If recent developments among cable folks and the Metro Ethernet Forum are an accurate indicator, it's looking very much like Ethernet is going to be the way of the future. The technology is cheap and by all appearances has adapted carrier...

SCTE Announcements.
February 27, 2007... Explore SCTE's New Distance Education The courses combine the convenience of online learning with the personal touch of live instructor support. The first course, "IPv6: Impact on Cable Networks," begins Monday, March 19, and continues...

Pipeline Profile: Jan Vorstermans.(dialogue with Jan Vorstermans )(Interview)
February 27, 2007... Mobile, VOD and Mach3 in Belgium Title: EVP Technology and Infrastructure, Telenet Broadband Background: Jan Vorstermans joined Telenet in Belgium in 2003. From 1994 to 2003, he held several executive positions as BT. The following is...