CT's Pipeline articles from July 2007

CT's Pipeline archives from July 2007

Falcon Flies High with GPON.
July 3, 2007... Randy DeYoung is not your typical cable operator; in fact, he'd be offended if someone even suggested he was typical. DeYoung is CEO of Falcon Broadband, a competitive telecommunications provider in Colorado Springs that has just put all its...

Engineering News.
July 3, 2007... Leading Generations: The Different Faces of Cable's Front Line The face of the industry's front line certainly has changed. The work jeans are baggier and definitely have more pockets than they used to. The fresh- faced, young techno-savvy...

Broadband Soapbox: A Betting Man.(Editorial)
July 3, 2007... In his July Editor's Letter, CT Editor Jonathan Tombes speculates on CableLabs' certification wave 56, specifically on who will be bringing what to the DOCSIS 3.0 table in October. He's betting (not much, but still betting) there'll probably...

SCTE Announcements.(Editorial)
July 3, 2007... SCTE Distance Education: Next Course Starts Next Week! What can SCTE Distance Education teach you? Enjoy flexible scheduling and instructor interaction. Remaining courses scheduled for 2007 are IPv6: Impact on Cable Networks (First in the...

Pipeline Profile: Chris Gordon.
July 3, 2007... Title: Senior director, product management, EGT Broadband Background: Gordon is responsible for the design, marketing and solution engineering of EGT's digital media video processing product lines. He has been with EGT since 2001. Prior...

Digital Video at Expo.
July 10, 2007... Troubleshoots, Hockey Sticks and Open Loops The technical papers at this year's Cable-Tec Expo presented yet more evidence of how complex the industry's digital video network has become, switched digital video (SDV) and OpenCable being...

Engineering News.(Brief article)
July 10, 2007... MEF Loves Cable: Commitment? Or just a Fling? In April 2006, Cablevision's Optimum Lightpath subsidiary became the first cable company to receive Metro Ethernet Forum certification for its Carrier Ethernet services. Since then, the...

Broadband Soapbox: Expo Take-Aways?(Brief article)
July 10, 2007... Every year, Expo seems to have some sort of theme, something that was the hot topic of discussion and technology. For example, last year that theme seemed to be business services. Other years have been focused on DOCSIS, VoIP and so on. What...

SCTE Announcements.
July 10, 2007... Catch 'A View From the Top: Switched Digital Video' That's the subject of the next SCTE Live Learning event, set for next Wednesday, July 18, at 2 p.m. Eastern time. Free to SCTE members. Registration is required, and "seats" are limited....

Pipeline Profile: Bruce Currivan.(Interview)
July 10, 2007... Title: Technical director, Communication Systems, Broadcom Broadband Background: Currivan is technical director at Broadcom in Irvine, CA, where he works on advanced QAM modem architecture. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an...

Expo 2007: Gone, But not Forgotten.
July 17, 2007... As always, Expo is the event of the year for cable technologists, and 2007 has been no exception. At CT, we're very fortunate to have the input and advice of some of the most prominent of those technologists - as regular columnists, on our...

Engineering News.
July 17, 2007... Switched Digital Ripens: Reality, Cases and Vendors By any of several measures, switched digital video is hot. The list of vendors playing in the SDV arena is growing, with some products in their second or third generation. The body of...

Broadband Soapbox: Business Services.
July 17, 2007... As evidenced by some of Expo's workshops and Glen Calafati's interview at right, business services is heating up as a topic of significant interest for cable. Some operators such as Cox and Cablevision have been in the business services...

SCTE Announcements.
July 17, 2007... SCTE Sounds the Call for Papers for ET 2008 Proposals are due Friday, Aug. 10. See the press release at http://www.scte.org/news/detail.cfm?ID=529 and the Call for Papers itself at http://www.scte.org/content/index.cfm?pID=193. Catch...

Pipeline Profile: Glenn Calafati.
July 17, 2007... Title: Director of Product Development, Optical IP-based Services, Optimum Lightpath Broadband Background: Calafati is responsible for the research and development of Optimum Lightpath's Optical IP-based Services. Previously, he served as...

VoIP Scalability: A Quiet-Dog Story.
July 24, 2007... Telephony was the dog that didn't bark (too loudly) at Cable-Tec Expo this year. In other words, there was significance in its relative silence. The significance is that the industry at large has successfully deployed voice over IP...

Engineering News: Digital Transmission, Part 2.
July 24, 2007... Modulation error ratio (MER) is digital complex baseband signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) - in fact, in the data world, the terms "SNR" and "MER" are often used interchangeably, adding to the confusion about SNR, especially considering that, as...

Broadband Soapbox: Member of the Year.(Ron Brunt awarded at Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers)(Brief article)
July 24, 2007... One of the reasons that Ron Brunt took home - much to his surprise - this year's SCTE Member of the Year Award was recognition for work he undertook that led toward the revitalization of an SCTE chapter. Next week, we'll hear more about how...

SCTE Announcements.
July 24, 2007... SCTE Slates Business Services Symposium Hold the dates: Thursday through Friday, Oct. 18-19, in Atlanta. Please stay tuned for an announcement about full program details and the start of registration. Answer the ET Call for Papers...

Pipeline Profile: Ron Brunt.
July 24, 2007... Title: Systems Engineer, Deployment Technologies Inc. Broadband background: See Below. (Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part interview with Brunt. For more, see next week's Pipeline.) Congrats on the Member of the Year...

Deep Packet Inspection and Beyond.(Sandvine Ltd. acquired CableMatrix and Simplicita)
July 31, 2007... Whatcha Got There? Sandvine's acquisitions of CableMatrix and Simplicita were two of the intriguing deals announced at this year's Cable-Tec Expo. What does this activity indicate about deep packet inspection (DPI) and high-speed data...

Engineering News.
July 31, 2007... All Hranac, All the Time For those who've been looking for all of Ron Hranac's articles in one place, here they are: columns, features, and even the odd Webcast, from February 2003 to today. Articles are listed by date, most recent...

Broadband Soapbox: Business Services.
July 31, 2007... Business services is heating up as a topic of significant interest for cable. Some operators such as Cox and Cablevision have been in the business services space for several years, and more are now dipping their toes into this potentially...

SCTE Announcements.
July 31, 2007... SCTE Slates Business Services Symposium Hold the dates: Thursday through Friday, Oct. 18-19, in Atlanta. Please stay tuned for an announcement about full program details and the start of registration. Answer the ET Call for Papers...

Pipeline Profile: Ron Brunt.
July 31, 2007... Title: Systems Engineer, Deployment Technologies Inc. Broadband background: This is the second of a two-part interview with Brunt. For more on Brunt's background, see part 1 of his profile from last week's Pipeline. At Expo, you were...