CT's Pipeline articles from January 2006

CT's Pipeline archives from January 2006

SCTE Prepares for ET.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers )
January 3, 2006... This time next week, the SCTE's Conference on Emerging Technologies will be convening in Tampa for the annual attempt to talk about the future. This is a necessary but far from simple task. The necessity derives from the importance of...

Letters to the Editor: Broadband Physics Promises Faster Speeds.(Letter to the Editor)
January 3, 2006... Broadband Physics CEO Mark Laubach responded to our question about technology catalysts with a gentle chide. "You forgot Better Mathematics," he wrote with an e-mail grin, on the day after announcing that the United States Patent and...

Broadband Soapbox: ET in Tampa.
January 3, 2006... Know any Good Restaurants? We interrupt our consideration of catalysts of technical change and leave aside other pressing and nontrivial issues, such as whether cable's front-line technical teams get enough respect, in order to consider...

SCTE Announcements.
January 3, 2006... ET Happening Next Week! The online registration deadline for saving time for SCTE's Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) 2006 is this Thursday, Jan. 5. After Jan. 5, you may register onsite at the full price. Sign up today and join...

Pipeline Profile: Joel S. Hayden.
January 3, 2006... SCTE member since 1989 Title : Independent Consultant, President, Accuracy Systems, LLC. Broadband Background : Hayden most recently worked as corporate director of technical operations for United Pan-European Communications (UPC) in...

Fear and Loathing at CES.
January 10, 2006... Given his affinity for mind-altering drugs, it's doubtful that departed gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson would have made it through last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with even a modicum of sanity left. After all, this...

Emerging Technologies.
January 10, 2006... Preview of Day 1 Here's a quick preview of the papers that will be presented on Day 1 of the SCTE's Conference on Emerging Technologies in Tampa. Session A: Cable Telecommunications 2010 Moderator: Anthony Werner, SVP and CTO,...

Dining in Tampa?: The Pipeline List.
January 10, 2006... Heading to the SCTE's Emerging Technologies conference? Nothing like a good meal to help you digest a day's worth of technical papers. Pipeline's sources in Tampa say that there are restaurants aplenty worthy of consideration. Jackson's...

SCTE Announcements.
January 10, 2006... ET Happening This Week! SCTE's Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) 2006, slated for Jan. 10- 12 in Tampa, Florida, has sold out. Conference proceedings materials will be available for purchase through the SCTE Bookstore. Stay tuned...

Pipeline Profile: Joe Matarese.
January 10, 2006... SCTE member since 2003 Title: CTO, C-COR Solutions Broadband Background: Matarese joined C-COR in 2005 when it acquired his former company nCUBE, where he most recently served as the lead architect on deployments of centralized cable...

The Future at ET.(Emerging Technologies Group)
January 17, 2006... Most mortals have trouble predicting the future. At the start of the first session at the SCTE's Conference on Emerging Technologies last Wednesday, Liberty Global SVP and CTO Tony Werner said that there are several ways to get it wrong. ...

A Wireless World.
January 17, 2006... The final session at ET focused entirely upon wireless technology. Cortland Wolfe, Nortel's director of product development, said that by 2010, customers will use various technologies--such as Wi-FI, WiMAX, HSDPA/HSUPA (High Speed Download...

Seachange Shows Memory, Ingest Blades.
January 17, 2006... Seachange International showed its add-on Memory Streaming Blade last week at ET. The Seachange Memory Blade is designed to help operators add streams in increments to new or previously deployed VOD systems without adding servers. SeaChange...

C-Cor Demos Advanced VOD Ad Splicing.
January 17, 2006... C-COR showed, among other demos, a prototype of a system that inserts ads into a VOD program using MPEG-4 and AVC splicing. The system allows the viewers to load, fast-forward and pause the commercials and provides reports to the advertiser...

Belair Networks Hangs Node.(strand-mounted wireless multi-service node)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2006... Belair Networks' 100s strand-mounted wireless multi-service node was also on display at the conference. The 100s is a two-way radio node that supports DOCSIS 2.0 and Euro-DOCSIS 2.0 specifications or can connect anywhere a cable operator has...

Concurrent Unveils Server.
January 17, 2006... Concurrent unveiled its MediaHawk 4500 high-density server for VOD applications, which will be available in the 3Q of 2006. The server will enable the storage of more than 20,000 hours of on-demand content and ingest rates of more than 2,500...

Narad Wants to Save Lambdas.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2006... Narad Networks raised awareness through several evening receptions at ET about the plight of the lambda, in particular the species of optical wavelength that lives within the HFC network. Narad's conservation strategy entails a switched...

Whaleback Rings for Business.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2006... Whaleback Systems' SMB1500 business phone solution was featured at ET's VoIP lounge. Operating over a broadband connection instead of a traditional phone line, Whaleback offers a flat rate per station service package. The package includes...

SCTE Announcements.
January 17, 2006... SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies Attendance Rises By Impressive 10 Percent http://www.scte.org/news/detail.cfm?ID=412 Leddy, Brown, and Coral Garner SCTE ET 2006 Awards http://www.scte.org/news/detail.cfm?ID=409 SCTE...

Pipeline Profile: Cortland Wolfe.
January 17, 2006... SCTE member since 2002 Title : Director of Product Development for Global Cable Solutions, Nortel Broadband Background : Wolfe is a 23-year veteran of the telecommunications industry. Aside from his role as director of product...

Optical Futures: Another ET Look at Light.(emerging technologies)(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers conference )
January 24, 2006... Among the many intriguing observations and reports shared by the SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies keynoter Jim Carroll in Tampa two weeks ago was the progress that optical researchers were making on the question of how to slow down...

Emerging Technologies: The ChicBrocFett Syndrome.(using acronyms may confuse customers)(cable services terminology)(Brief Article)
January 24, 2006... We admittedly get excited about new acronyms, and the SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies is a great place to hear about some good ones, such as TISPAN, V-DOC (video delivery over DOCSIS), and STUN and TURN (both NAT traversal related)....

Broadband Soapbox.
January 24, 2006... First an edit note: Due to a coding glitch, some folks who use Entourage on Macs were unable to see the January 11 and January 17 issues of CT's Pipeline. Both offered special ET coverage. FYI: Those issues have now been posted to our...

SCTE Announcements.
January 24, 2006... Register Today and SAVE for SCTE's Network Management Symposium It's set for Thursday, March 9, in San Francisco. Pre-register by Friday, Feb. 24, for savings. Details and registration are available online....

Pipeline Profile: John Leddy.
January 24, 2006... SCTE member since 2004 Title : Comcast VP of Network and Transport Engineering Congratulations on winning the IP Innovator of the Year Award at the SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies. What's your background in this area? ...

Tech Jobs: Threats and Opportunities.
January 31, 2006... Between mergers and outsourcing, many technical workers in today's highly connected information economy face real challenges to job security. Whether that is as much the case with cable companies as it is with telcos or the larger IT...

CommTech Jeopardy Questions.
January 31, 2006... Some of the CommTech Jeopardy questions are Comcast-specific, but most are not. Test yourself with the following sample of questions heard at last week's event: * How is the number five expressed as a binary number? * What does...

Broadband Soapbox: Training: What Works, What Doesn't?
January 31, 2006... Every cable company has its own approach to training. And every member of a technical team who has been asked to learn new skills has found that some ways are useful and others less so. Members of the CommTech Jeopardy teams that we talked...

SCTE Announcements.
January 31, 2006... Register Today and SAVE for SCTE's Network Management Symposium It's set for Thursday, March 9, in San Francisco. Pre-register by Friday, Feb. 24, for savings. Details and registration are available online....

Pipeline Profile: Mike Coral.(Interview)
January 31, 2006... SCTE member since 1994 Title: Director of Operations for Time Warner Cable, South Carolina Division Broadband Background: In the 15 years Coral has been with Time Warner Cable, he has been at the forefront of several advanced service...