CT's Pipeline articles from November 2006

CT's Pipeline archives from November 2006

Report From Dallas: Programmers Ready For TelcoTV.
November 7, 2006... Programmers - both "cable" and broadcast - are both willing and ready to package and deliver their services via new media such as the Internet and IPTV offered by telephone companies, panelists at an opening day session at the TelcoTV...

Coming Soon To A TV Near You: Addressable Advertising.(Cable Television Laboratories Inc.)(Brief article)
November 7, 2006... Addressable advertising is all about getting the right message to the right viewer at the right time. On that note, CableLabs hosted an event several weeks ago that focused on DPI certification and ad splicing in the addressable advertising...

Broadband Soapbox: The Telco TV Threat.
November 7, 2006... As noted in today's lead story, the telcos are hot to get their video services up and running, and the programmers are eager for the additional outlet. That combination could spell trouble for cable - but how much? How big a threat is this,...

SCTE Announcements.
November 7, 2006... Exciting Additions To ET '07 Just announced--Ethernet inventor Dr. Robert M. Metcalfe, general partner, Polaris Venture Partners, as ET 2007 keynote speaker and Greg Schwem as ET 2007 2nd Day Luncheon keynote speaker. SCTE Conference...

Pipeline Profile: Michael Pasquinilli.
November 7, 2006... SCTE Member since 1985 Title: Director of Advanced Engineering, Concurrent Broadband Background: Pasquinilli comes to Concurrent after seven years with Cox Communications, where he oversaw design and development of the MSO's...

WICT Update.(Women in Cable Telecommunications)
November 14, 2006... With the annual Women in Cable Telecommunications gala set for Wednesday, Nov. 15, in Washington, DC, now is a good time to get an update on this organization. As it happens our colleagues at Cable World--Seth Arenstein, in...

Taking Care of Business: Kristine Faulkner, Cox.
November 14, 2006... Communications Technology spoke with Kristine Faulkner, VP of product development and management for Cox Business Services, at the SCTE Business Services Symposium in Chicago. Faulkner discusses how Cox stays on the leading edge of cable's...

Broadband Soapbox: Bandwidth Crunch?
November 14, 2006... We hear more and more lately about a bandwidth crunch, as noted in Paul Hearty's profile at right. Yet as recently as a year ago (click here for the relevant CT article), the conventional wisdom was that there's plenty of bandwidth, though...

SCTE Announcements.
November 14, 2006... ET to Focus on 'My Network. My Services. No Boundaries.' SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies 2007 has two days of high-level technical discussions in store. Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe, general partner, Polaris Venture Partners,...

Pipeline Profile: Dr. Paul Hearty.
November 14, 2006... Title: President, Technology Assessors; Director, Rogers Communications Centre; and Associate Dean, Faculty of Communication & Design, Ryerson University. Broadband Background: Prior to forming his own consulting company, Hearty served...

Ethernet and ET Inventor to Keynote.
November 21, 2006... Given that the SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies grapples with the industry's future, Robert Metcalfe, attributed with "inventing" Ethernet, will keynote the upcoming event, scheduled for Jan. 23-25 in Houston. "Clearly, the cable...

The Next-Generation Field Tech.
November 21, 2006... Field personnel are being called on to perform more and more complex tasks, and their training needs to reflect that. Here follows a recent CT article on the topic. One afternoon a few weeks ago, I was teaching a group of newly hired...

Outsourcing.
November 21, 2006... As noted in John Donahue's profile at right, the use of outsourced labor is growing, and not only in the cable industry. Bottom-line-wise, it's usually cheaper to hire contractors on an as-needed basis than to retain internal staff for the...

SCTE Announcements.
November 21, 2006... ET 2007--A Can't-Miss Event SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies 2007 has two days of high-level technical discussions in store. Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe, general partner, Polaris Venture Partners, will be the ET 2007 opening...

Pipeline Profile: John Donahue.
November 21, 2006... Title: President, ProCom Services Broadband Background: Donahue recently left his position as senior vice president of engineering and operations for Comcast to found a fulfillment company, ProCom Services. He also chairs the SCTE...

More On Taking Care Of Business: The Case Of New York Law School.
November 28, 2006... In this week's Pipeline profile, which is excerpted from the forthcoming edition of CT's Communications Executive, Cox Communications EVP and CTO Chris Bowick gently corrects any suggestion that his company's work in the business services...

Cashing In On Business Services.
November 28, 2006... Cox Business Services, the commercial broadband and telecom division of Cox Communications, announced in October that it has grown its commercial customer base by nearly 28 percent over the same period a year ago, thanks largely to greater...

Broadband Soapbox: Voice And Business.
November 28, 2006... In his profile at right, Cox's Chris Bowick mentions that voice services and business services go hand-in-hand. Yet many cable ops either aren't interested in offering business services or are only slowly getting into them. Why is that?...

SCTE Announcements.
November 28, 2006... Register Now For ET 2007 SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies 2007 is set for Jan. 23-25 in Houston. Two days of high-level technical discussions are in store. The keynote speakers are Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe, general partner,...

Pipeline Profile: Chris Bowick.
November 28, 2006... Title: CTO, Cox Communications Broadband Background: Bowick has been the top engineer at Cox since 2000. Prior to joining Cox in 1998, he was VP and CTO for Jones Intercable. How does Cox's nearly 10 years in voice give your team a...