CT's Pipeline articles from January 2008

CT's Pipeline archives from January 2008

More CES, and HD.
January 9, 2008... To Infinity and Beyond Our colleagues at CableFAX Daily said Comcast CEO Brian Roberts looked a little like Buzz Lightyear yesterday in his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. As moviegoers may...

Engineering News.
January 9, 2008... Business Services: Video Gives MSOs an Edge Cable operators are focused on winning commercial accounts by offering voice and high-speed Internet services, yet they sometimes neglect the one service they do so well - video. By expanding...

Broadband Soapbox: HD: All or Nothing?
January 9, 2008... "Doesn't everything non-HD look like awful...." Does this mean that HDTV is an all-or-nothing experience for the consumer? Kind of like offering a variety of dialup speeds and broadband quality connections on the Internet front? What do you...

SCTE Announcements.
January 9, 2008... ET Is Next Week! Register for SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) 2008 either online now or onsite next week in Los Angeles. High-tech sessions, Futurist Glen Hiemstra as keynoter, and insightful strategic views all await you....

ET Sessions.
January 9, 2008... Here are the sessions and papers scheduled for ET in Los Angeles next week. For more information or to register, go to http://et.scte.org/. Session: Advanced Advertising Technology: Driving the Next Growth Engine Advanced...

Conference on ET Looks Ahead.(Conference news)
January 15, 2008... Futurist Sets Tone in LA This year's SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies opened Tuesday morning with a keynote address by Futurist.com Founder and Owner Glen Hiemstra. An academic who focused on communications, Hiemstra bought...

Engineering News.
January 15, 2008... Ethernet Technology: It's Testing Time To stay competitive, cable operators are going to need to do what every service provider is doing: capture as much of the enterprise services and leased line markets as possible. Already using...

Broadband Soapbox: Extracurricular Activities.
January 15, 2008... As noted in Steve Johnson's profile at right, cable's top people didn't get there by punching out at 5 o'clock - they devote considerable time to industry-related "extracurricular activities" such as volunteering with the SCTE, working with...

SCTE Announcements.
January 15, 2008... Answer the Expo Call for Papers Offer your proposals for technical workshops for the Society's flagship event, SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2008. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Expo is set for June in Philadelphia....

ET Sessions: Steve Johnson.
January 15, 2008... Title: Owner, Johnson Telecom, Technical Telecommunications Consulting Broadband Background: Johnson founded his eponymous consulting firm at the end of 2007 after 23 years with Time Warner Cable, where he last served as senior director,...

Advanced Advertising at ET.
January 22, 2008... Transformation in the Offing Organizers of last week's SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) hit the right emerging note by including an executive from Google on a panel devoted to advanced advertising. Presenting at the...

Engineering News.(Brief article)
January 22, 2008... HDTV: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly It may smack of heresy to suggest that high-definition TV (HDTV) is anything but beautiful. But as mesmerizing as those highly defined pixels are, there are other sides to the HD phenomenon. To...

Broadband Soapbox: Federal Investment?(Brief article)
January 22, 2008... Every so often, a genuinely interesting press release crosses our desks. The one that's piqued our interest this time is a call for federal investment in broadband infrastructure. Citing communications failures during 9/11 and Hurricane...

SCTE Announcements.
January 22, 2008... Answer the Expo Call for Papers by Next Friday Offer your proposals for technical workshops for the Society's flagship event, SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2008. Deadline: Next Friday, Feb. 1. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Expo is set for June...

ET Sessions: David Haigh.
January 22, 2008... Title:Senior RF Engineer, Midcontinent Communications Broadband Background: Haigh began his career at Optus Communications in 1995, as part of the team responsible for a path-breaking HFC deployment in Australia. He joined Denver-based...

Hyperconnected, Cognizant and Emerging.
January 29, 2008... More from ET Each of the four panels as this year's SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) in Los Angeles presented a sampler of related technologies. Situated at varying points along multiple technology horizons, many of them...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
January 29, 2008... "We're from the Government, and We're Here to Help" Here's a letter we received in response to last week's Broadband Soapbox question about the possibility of federal investment in broadband infrastructure. Any suggestion of federal...

Broadband Soapbox: More on HD.
January 29, 2008... More and more lately, we're hearing about potential PR problems with HD - not with HD itself, but rather with subscribers' expectations. It's not a new phenomenon (consumer misunderstanding of HD is well-documented and one of the points in...

SCTE Announcements.
January 29, 2008... Last Call for the Expo Call for Papers Offer your proposals for technical workshops for the Society's flagship event, SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2008. Deadline: This Friday, Feb. 1. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Expo is set for June 24-27 in...

ET Award Winners: Griffis, Elloiott, Sandino.
January 29, 2008... In addition to David Haigh's Young Engineer Award (which we covered here last week), three other individual awards were presented at ET: the IP Innovator, Polaris and Star of Integrity Awards. All are restricted to SCTE members. IP...