CT's Pipeline articles from July 2004

CT's Pipeline archives from July 2004

100 Million Reasons to Ready Your Nets for Home Nets.(Brief Article)
July 13, 2004... More than 100 million home networks will exist worldwide by the end of 2009, according to a recent study by IMS Research ( www.imsresearch-usa.com ). The growth of this market is primarily driven by consumers' desires to share broadband...

2004 Readers' Choice Award Winners.(Brief Article)
July 13, 2004... Communications Technology, official trade journal of the SCTE (www.scte.org) announce the winners of its 2004 Readers' Choice Awards. The winners in five categories are as follows: Advanced Video Scientific-Atlanta, Explorerr 8300...

Get SCTE Vendors Days Tips.
July 13, 2004... SCTE chapters are driving cable engineering knowledge at the local level through Vendors Day events. If you're looking for advice for throwing your own event, check out http://www.cableworld.com/ct/archives/0604/0604_vendors.html. ...

Attend the "Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium".
July 13, 2004... Presented by SCTE and Communications Technology magazine, this one-day, hot-topic event--sponsored by Acterna, Motorola, Nortel, Siemens, and Sigma Systems--is set for Tuesday, Sept. 14 in Philadelphia. Get details/register today at...

GIS: How to Turn Bad Data into Gold.
July 20, 2004... A forum devoted to geographic information services (GIS) that drew 60 attendees to its meeting during SCTE's (www.scte.org) Cable-Tec Expo in Orlando last month is aiming to set an industry standard for plant documentation that could help boost...

Intruders Beware.(Cable-Tec Expo)
July 20, 2004... Cable's high-speed data teams are collaborating and adopting new security technologies in their common battle against a rising tide of network enemies. A few years ago, Adelphia's approach, intrusion detection "was pretty much a shambles,"...

IBC to Offer Plethora of Broadband Engineering Know-How.(Brief Article)
July 20, 2004... The IBC 2004 Conference is slated for Sept. 9-13 in Amsterdam, and organizers are expecting 40,000 professionals involved in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment content worldwide to attend. Of interest to broadband cable...

All-Out, All-Digital.(Brief Article)
July 20, 2004... One of the many keys to cable's digital transition strategy involves rolling out low-cost digital set-tops to the most basic of subs. What do you think of these boxes from a technology standpoint? What issues will engineers need to address as...

Cost-Effectively Engineer New VoIP Revenues through Best Technology Practices.(Brief Article)
July 20, 2004... Attend the "Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium." Presented by SCTE and Communications Technology magazine. This one-day, hot-topic event--sponsored by Acterna, Motorola, Nortel, Siemens and Sigma Systems--is set for Tues., Sept. 14 in...

PIPELINE PROFILE.
July 20, 2004... Jim Chiddix Serve Customers Interactively SCTE Member Since 1975 Title: CEO and Chairman of the Board of OpenTV Broadband Background: CTO Time Warner Cable and president, Mystro TV. Chiddix was inducted into the SCTE Hall of...

Time to Debunk Some Digital Folklore.
July 27, 2004... Some vicious myths are popping up around one-way cable-ready TV sets. So you'd better arm your field crew with the ability to explain reality when they're out there with subs. Comcast techs are spending more time dealing with "growing...

How the Wire/Wireline Gap Is Narrowing.
July 27, 2004... The idea of integrating wired and wireless voice, which popped up on the CEO and CTO panels at SCTE's ( www.scte.org ) Cable-Tec Expo last month, got a boost this month with the with the inauguration of the Fixed Mobile Convergence Alliance....

Learn About Next-Gen Networks.(Brief Article)
July 27, 2004... Wondering where networking and telecommunications are headed in the future? Then you may want to check out Next Generation Networks 2004, taking place November 1-4 at the Mariott Copley Place in Boston. The conference features a plethora of...

All-Out, All-Digital.
July 27, 2004... One of the many keys to cable's digital transition strategy involves rolling out low-cost digital set-tops to the most basic of subs. What do you think of these boxes from a technology standpoint? What issues will engineers need to address as...

VoIP Symposium Is Calling.(Voice over Internet protocol)(Brief Article)
July 27, 2004... Answer the call and attend the "Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium." Presented by SCTE and Communications Technology magazine, this one-day, hottopic event -- sponsored by Acterna, Auspice, Cisco Systems, Motorola, Nortel, Siemens and Sigma...