CT's Pipeline articles from July 2003

CT's Pipeline archives from July 2003

Housebreak the Home Networking Beast.
July 1, 2003... Thanks to the velocity and user-friendliness of your high-speed data nets, your subscribers are acquiring, viewing, managing and sharing an exploding amount of digital media. And for several years now, cable has tried to sort out its role in...

Letters to the Editor: The Down and Dirty on DPI.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2003... Here's a couple letters we received on our recent discussion of digital program insertion (DPI). Pipeline welcomes letters to the editor at lhamilton@pbimedia.com. All letters may be published, and edited for style or length. * DPI Is...

CableLabs' Summer Conference and Smaller Market Conference.
July 1, 2003... CableLabs' (www.cablelabs.com) Summer Conference 2003 will take place at the Keystone Resort and Conference Center in Colorado, August 11-13, with main conference sessions August 11 and 12 and project meetings on August 13. The Smaller...

The Best Seminar Ever.
July 1, 2003... Here's a great question posed on SCTE's Trainers List by the Society's Director of Certification and Program Development Joel Welch: "If you could attend a one-hour training and development workshop specific to our industry, what would that...

Share Your Expertise at ET, Western.
July 1, 2003... Proposals for technical papers are now being accepted for SCTE's 2004 Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) and SCTE's technical sessions at the 2003 Western Show. ET will take place Jan. 13-15 in Dallas. The deadline for proposals is Aug....

New Services: What Are They Worth?
July 8, 2003... It's fun -- and sometimes a civic duty -- to beat up on financial analysts, especially those on Wall Street. But the folks at Arris (www.arrisi.com) have crunched some numbers that should interest engineers with bottom-line responsibilities...

Letter to the Editor: An Abbreviation By Any Other Name ...(Letter to the Editor)
July 8, 2003... Per the comments in the last issue of Pipeline about the abbreviation for digital program insertion (DPI) already being in use (for dots per inch), there are lots of situations where abbreviations get reused. Oh, well. I doubt it will confuse...

Missed the National Show?(National Cable and Telecommunications Association)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2003... If you couldn't make it to the NCTA's (www.ncta.com) confab in Chicago last month, you can pick up audio tapes of the sessions at www.thenationalshow.com. Technical topics addressed included bandwidth consumption, next-gen set-tops, IP traffic,...

Your Dream Seminar.
July 8, 2003... Here's a great question posed on SCTE's Trainers List by the Society's Director of Certification and Program Development Joel Welch: "If you could attend a one-hour training and development workshop specific to our industry, what would that...

SCTE's Seminar Central to Focus on New Services.
July 8, 2003... The Society will hold its second-annual SCTE Seminar Central Oct. 21-24 at Cisco Campus in San Jose, CA. This year's collection of learning opportunities will focus on new services and technologies such as VOD and DOCSIS 2.0. Find out more or...

Giving Racks Their Due.
July 15, 2003... Are racks and cabinets getting the respect they deserve? "Ho-hum," is how one systems integrator characterized the issues impacting the metal frames that house high-end equipment in data centers, headends and hubs. "I'm looking into racks,"...

Has Cable Got Game?
July 15, 2003... Cable's future success offering broadband services depends on the engineering community's ability to layer on new services. And one service ripe for MSOs to pluck in North America is online gaming. Last week, members of the Broadband...

See Pipeline and Communications Technology at New Web Site.(Brief Article)
July 15, 2003... Looking for back issues of CT's Pipeline or Communications Technology? Check out our new Web site at www.broadband-pbimedia.com. [Copyright 2003 PBI Media, LLC. All rights reserved.]

A Perfect Seminar.
July 15, 2003... Here's a great question posed on SCTE's Trainers List by the Society's Director of Certification and Program Development Joel Welch: "If you could attend a one-hour training and development workshop specific to our industry, what would that...

DOCSIS Systems Heads to Richmond, VA.
July 15, 2003... Attend SCTE's DOCSIS Systems seminar, taking place July 23-24 in Richmond, VA, and you'll explore the elements, implementations, deployment and impact of DOCSIS 1.0 and migration to DOCSIS 1.1. At this seminar -- co-hosted by SCTE's Old...

Can Cable Slam-Dunk Over DBS's DVR Technology?(Digital Broadcast Satellite )(Brief Article)
July 22, 2003... Some estimates have more than a million DBS subs with DVR service. But rather than go in with a technology that will race side-by-side, many cable engineers are looking to vault over it. An example of that tactic came last week from...

Pitching and Managing On-Demand Assets.
July 22, 2003... Automate and centralize. When it comes to managing large numbers of unique VOD assets, that strategy beats the alternative. The automation play is well underway. Technologies from TVN (www.tvn.com) and N2 Broadband (www.n2broadband.com)...

Bachelor Party: NCTI/DeVry Team.(National Cable Television Institute)(Brief Article)
July 22, 2003... NCTI (www.ncti.com) announced last week that it expanded its college program through an agreement with DeVry University. For the first time, NCTI students to apply virtually all of their NCTI and Arapahoe Community College courses to DeVry...

The Best Seminar.
July 22, 2003... Here's a great question posed on SCTE's Trainers List by the Society's Director of Certification and Program Development Joel Welch: "If you could attend a one-hour training and development workshop specific to our industry, what would that...

New DOCSIS Book Available From SCTE Bookstore.
July 22, 2003... Innovations and advanced versions of DOCSIS have hit the market more quickly than engineers have been able to create the roadmaps to implement them. Now, in this new first-of-its-kind book, Optimizing the Future with Next-Generation DOCSIS:...

Here Comes the Sun: Tips on Transit Outages.
July 29, 2003... It's summertime, a good time to recall how overwhelming the sun's energy appears when lined up behind a satellite and earth station. "Like a searchlight illuminating a candle," Brad Keller, a principal member of SES Americom's...

Are You Losing Ground to DSL? Is Bundling the Answer?
July 29, 2003... Last week, Time Warner Cable reported 170,000 high-speed data customer adds for its second quarter, or 13,100 new subs a week vs. 15,200 a week a year ago. The company pointed to disconnecting college students, war and the economy as reasons...

Run for Your Career.(broadband transmission)(Brief Article)
July 29, 2003... One of the best ways for broadband cable engineers to advance their careers, and give back to the community at the same time is to serve on the SCTE (www.scte.org) national board of directors. And right now, the Society is accepting candidate...

The Best Seminar.
July 29, 2003... Here's a great question posed on SCTE's Trainers List by the Society's Director of Certification and Program Development Joel Welch: "If you could attend a one-hour training and development workshop specific to our industry, what would that...

ANSI Approves 100th SCTE Standard.(American National Standards Institute)(Brief Article)
July 29, 2003... SCTE proudly announces a milestone event for the SCTE Standards Program. The American National Standards Institute recently approved six new SCTE standards, increasing the number of SCTE standards that are ANSI approved from 98 to 104. Get...