CT's Pipeline articles from July 2005

CT's Pipeline archives from July 2005

L&D Conference Wrap-Up.
July 6, 2005... The surge of activity surrounding VoIP is one driver behind ongoing efforts to optimize the industry's educational and training efforts. The combination of a favorable regulatory environment, technological advances, and increasing...

Letters to the Editor: What to Rename "HFC"?(Letter to the Editor)
July 6, 2005... More responses to our question, "What would you rename HFC?" I completely agree with Mr. Werner's comments regarding HFC vs. FTTH platforms. The problem that I see is not about needing a "sexy" new name for HFC, but just pure promotion...

Broadband Soapbox.
July 6, 2005... Commercial Services: How to get there from here? A major theme at this year's Cable-Tec Expo was commercial services. There were products specifically geared toward it, workshops on it and just lots of buzz generally. The technology's...

SCTE Announcements.
July 6, 2005... SCTE Live Learning Covers DPI This Month After taking a month off in June for SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2005, SCTE Live Learning returns Wednesday, July 20, at 2 p.m. Eastern time. It will be the next in a series of monthly live, interactive,...

Pipeline Profile: Tim Spencer.(Sigma Systems Inc.)(Interview)
July 6, 2005... SCTE member since 2004 Title: President and Chief Operating Officer, Sigma Systems Broadband Background: Spencer joined Sigma in 1995 as chief technology officer and then vice president, engineering of the company's Cable Service...

Simulcast Strategies at Expo: Pit-Stop on the Road to All Digital.(Cable-Tec Expo)
July 12, 2005... Simulcast Strategies Discussed and demonstrated extensively at last month's Cable-Tec Expo, the simultaneous broadcast (simulcast) of both analog and digital video is one of this year's key technical issues. Digital simulcast is a...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
July 12, 2005... More on what to (re)name the hybrid-fiber/coax network Here are two final takes in our ongoing conversation about what to name the HFC network: How about "True Broadband"? After all, Broadband really does mean "broad RF spectrum...

Broadband Soapbox: Commercial Services.(Brief Article)
July 12, 2005... One more time... A major theme at this year's Cable-Tec Expo was commercial services. There were products specifically geared toward it, workshops on it and just lots of buzz generally. The technology's there, and the industry's jazzed....

SCTE Announcements.
July 12, 2005... Insert a DPI Seminar Into Your Schedule for Next Week After taking a month off in June for SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2005, SCTE Live Learning returns next Wednesday, July 20, at 2 p.m. Eastern time. It will be the next in a series of monthly...

Pipeline Profile: .(CableServ Inc. appoints Audley Alexander as president)
July 12, 2005... Implementing Best Practices, Keeping Markets Competitive SCTE member since 1998 Title: President, CableServ Broadband Background: Prior to being promoted to president of CableServ, Alexander served five years with the company as...

Next-Gen Services Need a Platform.
July 19, 2005... The cable industry is better positioned to deliver a wide array of on- demand and interactive services than competing industries, but it will take a robust set of standards and broad interoperability across numerous systems to usher in the...

Letters to the Editor: Let's re-name something else.(Letter to the Editor)
July 19, 2005... The responses we received on what if anything to rename the HFC network is having something of a spillover effect: All the recent chatter about "truck rolls" in the context of VoIP deployment is kind of amusing. A Time Warner Cable...

Broadband Soapbox: Regional Shows and ATEOTD.
July 19, 2005... This week's broadband soapbox borrows from Paul Maxwell's column in the Monday edition of sister pub CableFAX Daily. Writing from the New England Cable Show (for tech coverage see this week's lead story) Paul was speculating on the...

SCTE Announcements.
July 19, 2005... DPI Seminar Wednesday SCTE Live Learning(tm) returns this Wednesday, July 20 at 2 p.m. Eastern time. It will be the next in a series of monthly live, interactive, web-based seminars that are free to SCTE members. Subject: "Digital...

Pipeline Profile: Pete Van Peenen.(Interview)
July 19, 2005... Telco's Trouble-Shooting Advantage SCTE member since 2005 Title : Vice President, Cable Marketing & Sales, Tollgrade Communications Broadband Background: Van Peenen has experience on both the cable and telco side. For example, he...

Cyber Spam and High Speed Internet.
July 26, 2005... Stories on cable's high-speed data service lately have fallen into two categories. On the one hand is DOCSIS 3.0, which has emerged from the drawing board and now has found its way into press releases, such as Singapore-based StarHub's...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
July 26, 2005... Responses to our rant last week on expression "At the end of the day" (borrowing in part from a CableFAX Daily column by Paul Maxwell) included the following: How about instead of ATEOTD, we use HE for Happy Ending! WTRMTR (where the...

Broadband soapbox: ATEOTD and job market dynamics.
July 26, 2005... If you were late to the party and would like to join last week's discussion of the "At the end of the day (ATEOTD)" and the overuse thereof, feel free to chime in. Otherwise, take a look at the interview with Mark Clancey in this issue...

SCTE Announcements.
July 26, 2005... Registration for SCTE's Commercial Services Symposium Starts Soon Stay tuned to www.scte.org for details and the start of registration for the symposium. The one-day, hot-topic event is slated for Wednesday, Oct. 12 in Charlotte, N.C....

Pipeline Profile: Mark Clancey.(interview)(Interview)
July 26, 2005... Job Market, Undiscovered Cable Tribes, and IP SCTE member since 1986 Title: Co-Founder, Director of Sales & Business Development, BroadbandCareers.com Broadband Background: Clancey began in the trenches, so to speak, as a...