CT's Pipeline articles from February 2008

CT's Pipeline archives from February 2008

Cable 3.0: Giving the Customer Control.
February 5, 2008... You've fallen asleep in front of the TV set. You wake up to a quiet house. Call out. No one answers. Where has your family gone? Someday soon you may press a button on your TV set's remote control and call up a map. That map would display...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
February 5, 2008... More on HD Here's a response we received to last week's Soapbox question on managing customers' HD expectations. It is going to be tough managing the customer's expectations when there is so much misinformation, hype, and deception...

Broadband Soapbox: Is Ethernet Really Where It's At?
February 5, 2008... As noted in Ben Legault's profile at right, there's a definite trend toward using Ethernet for more than just the local area network in an office. People are looking hard at Ethernet for transport across metro areas, particularly in business...

SCTE Announcements.
February 5, 2008... Who Are Your Nominees for the 2008 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo Awards? The SCTE Member of the Year Award, inductions into the SCTE Hall of Fame, and the SCTE Excellence in Standards Award are all up for nomination. Review the criteria and send in...

Pipeline Profile: Ben Legault.(Interview)
February 5, 2008... Title: Director of Cable Marketing, Ciena Broadband Background: Ben Legault's article in the February issue of Communications Technology, "Packet Technologies for Business Services," addresses the reality that as cable turns to business...

Ruckus at CableLabs Winter Conference.(Conference notes)
February 12, 2008... Ruckus Wireless' whole-home multimedia distribution using 802.11n technology has been recognized as the "Best Product Idea" by participants of the 2008 CableLabs Winter Conference. The Sunnyvale, CA, WiFi company, led by President & CEO...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
February 12, 2008... Do We Really Want HD? Here's a letter we received in response to a recent Pipeline question about whether the cable industry really wants HDTV. The average customer I run into just wants to lie down because his head is pounding from...

Broadband Soapbox.(Brief article)
February 12, 2008... Over-the-Air Opportunity? With the looming 2009 digital transition for over-the-air broadcasters may lie an opportunity for cable. Odds are, some numbers of people who presently get over-the-air broadcast video only will not want to buy...

SCTE Announcements.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers)
February 12, 2008... Catch 'The Impact of Broadcast DTV on Cable Operations' That's the subject of the next SCTE Live Learning event, set for next Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Free to SCTE members. Registration is required, and "seats" are...

Pipeline Profile: Bruce McLeod.
February 12, 2008... Title : Executive director, voice technology and engineering, Cox Communications Broadband Background : McLeod has been developing and deploying voice technology with Cox Communications since 2002 where he is currently executive...

All Digital Talk at NCTC Winter Educational Conference.(Conference news)
February 19, 2008... The first of the two-day Winter Educational Conference of the National Cable Television Cooperative in Phoenix included three digital-heavy sessions and breaks for the more than 300 independent cable operators attending to visit the tabletop...

Engineering News.(RF CNR)(Baseband Video SNR)(Brief article)
February 19, 2008... Broadband: RF CNR vs. Baseband Video SNR If one were to measure RF carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) and baseband video signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the same analog TV channel, how would the numbers compare? This definitely falls into the...

Broadband Soapbox: Cable Modems with Integrated Wi-Fi?
February 19, 2008... This recent CT Reports story has generated a bit of internal discussion here about the wisdom of integrating Wi-Fi routers into cable modems for home networking. On one hand, there's no denying the elegance of a single box. On the...

SCTE Announcements.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers )
February 19, 2008... Catch 'The Impact of Broadcast DTV on Cable Operations' That's the subject of the next SCTE Live Learning event, set for this Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Free to SCTE members. Registration is required, and "seats" are...

Pipeline Profile: Mourad Veeneman.(Interview)
February 19, 2008... Title : VP design and architecture, UPC Broadband Broadband Background : Mourad Veeneman is vice president for design and architecture at UPC Broadband, a Liberty Global company headquartered in the Netherlands. His department supports...

You Gonna Eat That? IPTV Eyes Cable's Lunch.
February 26, 2008... If you listen to its advocates, IPTV is eating cable's lunch. There is about as much reality to that as to Comcast's ongoing claims that it has an "advanced fiber optic network." Yeah, IPTV is making inroads, and yeah, Comcast has fiber out...

Engineering News.(Brief article)
February 26, 2008... Moving Ahead: OpenCable (aka tru2way) Sets the Course As OpenCable-enabled hardware and software development accelerated in 2007, it was time for the cable operators to take the initiative in practical implementation of these...

Broadband Soapbox.
February 26, 2008... The IPTV Threat As noted in today's lead story, the telcos want very much to use IPTV to take a bite out of cable's video market share, but are they there yet? Verizon had 500,000 FiOS video subs last June and hit the 1 million mark at...

SCTE Announcements.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers)(Event overview)
February 26, 2008... Catch 'The Integration of Wi-Fi and WiMAX in HFC' That's the subject of the next SCTE Live Learning event, set for Wednesday, March 19, at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Free to SCTE members. Registration is required, and "seats" are limited....

Pipeline Profile: Kshitij Kumar.
February 26, 2008... Title: CEO, TellyTopia Broadband background: Kshitij Kumar began his career at C-DoT, helping to build the first generation of Indian digital switching systems for telephony. After earning a post-graduate degree in computer science from...