CT's Pipeline articles from October 2004

CT's Pipeline archives from October 2004

Houston: We Have No Problem.(contracts)
October 5, 2004... Time Warner Cable's deployment of Scientific-Atlanta's (www.scientificatlanta.com) digital overlay technology in Houston has given industry watchers a way to quantify the free-floating frustration many operators have expressed over delays in...

Intellectual Property Update.
October 5, 2004... Last week, industry consultant and inventor Rick Jaworski announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted his request to speed up the process leading to an examination of his patent application on upstream cable modem channel...

Missed the VoIP Symposium? Order a DVD or the White Papers.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2004... SCTE (www.scte.org) and Communication Technology's Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium on Sept. 14 attracted a capacity crowd of about 250 industry professionals. "It was a resounding success by all accounts," says SCTE's Marv Nelson. "The...

The Impact of Carrier-Class.(Brief Article)
October 5, 2004... Not long ago, vendors earned zero points for using the words "carrierclass" in a presentation to cable operators. Why? Operators didn't "carry" things like the telcos. Times have (quickly) changed. The measure of network reliability isn't...

Is ET '05 on Your Calendar?(Calendar)
October 5, 2004... Registration will begin this month for SCTE's Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) 2005, to be held Jan. 11-13 in Huntington Beach, Calif. Stay tuned to CT's Pipeline and www.scte.org for full details, and plan to travel three-to-five years...

Speaking P2P Voice with Niklas Zennstrom, the Co-Founder of KaZaA.(Peer to Peer)
October 12, 2004... Chalk up another one for disruptive innovation. Addressing last week's Internet Telephony Conference and Expo (www.tmcnet.com/itexpo/) in Los Angeles via videoconference from London, Skype (www.skype.com) CEO and co-founder Niklas Zennstrom...

Letter to the Editor: Myths Surrounding CableCards.(Letter to the Editor)
October 12, 2004... Here's a letter we received recently about an article that ran in "Pipeline" this summer. To view Pipeline archives, visit www.cableworld.com/pipeline/previous/index.html. "I was bemused to read the article in your July 27, 2004, issue,...

SCTE/NCTI Partnership Update.(Society of Cable Television Engineers)(National Cable Television Institute )(Brief Article)
October 12, 2004... SCTE (www.scte.org) is transferred ownership of nine of its training publications to its official training partner, NCTI (www.ncti.com), beginning Oct. 1. Under the terms of ownership, NCTI will begin selling the publications under its own...

Carrier-Class And Reliability of the HFC Net.(High Frequency Current)
October 12, 2004... Not long ago, vendors earned no points for using the words "carrierclass" in a presentation to cable operators. Why? Operators didn't "carry" things like the telcos. Times have (quickly) changed. The measure of network reliability isn't...

Pre-Registration Ends Wednesday for 'Nontechnical Professional' Seminar.
October 12, 2004... Know a colleague who's 'not technical'? Encourage him or her to attend SCTE's new comprehensive seminar designed just for them, "Cable Technology for the Nontechnical Professional," taking place Mon., Oct. 18 in New York City and Tues., Oct....

VoIP Equipment Buzz: Deal Resonates from Cable Ops to Telcos.(Voice over Internet Protocol )(Brief Article)
October 19, 2004... Not exactly an operator known for immediately screaming equipment-deal news from the rooftops, Comcast named Cedar Point Communications (www.cedarpointcom.com) a primary vendor of VoIP services equipment. Under the multi-year agreement, Comcast...

Network Maintenance Requires Visibility.
October 19, 2004... As the cable industry continues to expand its services portfolio, preventative maintenance stands as a kind of proxy on underlying network quality. What that proxy looks like differs from MSO to MSO. For Adelphia, what was previously ad...

National Show Call for Tech Papers.
October 19, 2004... NCTA (www.ncta.com) has issued its call for technical papers to be presented this coming spring at the 2005 National Show, set for April 3-5, 2005, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Proposals for papers are due by Nov. 15, 2004, and...

Carrier-Class And Reliability of the HFC Net.(High Frequency Communication )(Brief Article)
October 19, 2004... Not long ago, vendors earned no points for using the words "carrierclass" in a presentation to cable operators. Why? Operators didn't "carry" things like the telcos. Times have (quickly) changed. The measure of network reliability isn't...

Next SCTE Live Learning(tm) Session Is This Week.
October 19, 2004... Catch "Core Optical Network Convergence" this Wed., Oct. 20. The live, interactive, web-based seminar is set for 2 p.m. ET. The event is free for SCTE members! SCTE Live Learning(tm) is brought to you by Cisco Systems, Fujitsu and...

FCC Gives RBOCS Another Fiber Nod.(Regional Bell Operating Companies)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2004... The FCC (www.fcc.gov) announced a decision late last week that certainly must have the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) smiling. The Commission decided to take its recently announced decisions to deregulate the RBOCs' fiberto-the-home...

Letter to the Editor: Patent Dispute Update.(Letter to the Editor)
October 26, 2004... "I saw the article in Pipeline - "Engineering News: Intellectual Property Update" (www.ct-magazine.com/pipeline/previous/pipe100504.html) -- regarding my patent dispute with Acterna. The attorney you quoted stated some time frames in the...

Missed the VoIP Symposium? Get the White Papers.(conferences)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2004... SCTE (www.scte.org) and Communication Technology's Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium on Sept. 14 attracted a capacity crowd of about 250 industry professionals. To get a copy of the "Advanced VoIP Deployment Symposium Sponsor Handbook," which...

Classifying Carrier-Class.(cable operators)(Brief Article)
October 26, 2004... Not long ago, vendors earned no points for using the words "carrierclass" in a presentation to cable operators. Why? Operators didn't "carry" things like the telcos. Times have (quickly) changed. The measure of network reliability isn't...

Special Opening Keynote Named as ET Registration Opens!(Emerging Technologies)(online registration)
October 26, 2004... Paul G. Allen will address SCTE's 2005 Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET), and conference registration is under way. Learn more at http://et.scte.org and in the News section of www.scte.org. ET is happening Jan. 11-13 in Huntington Beach,...