CT's Pipeline articles from September 2004

CT's Pipeline archives from September 2004

Who's Afraid of IPTV?(Internet protocol)
September 14, 2004... At this year's IBC Show (www.ibc.org) in Amsterdam, one abbreviation incessantly jumped out from a mammoth number of the displays: IPTV (Internet protocol TV). The IPTV solutions at the confab boasted about the benefits of delivering video over...

Cable's Manifest Line Destiny: Wireless Extensions.(wireless world)
September 14, 2004... Industry leaders like the idea of alternative access technologies. "Go wireless the last mile," Jeff King, EVP of Time Warner Cable and president of Road Runner, said at the CTAM commercial services summit in May. But for whatever reasons,...

NW Tech Days & Vendor Show Celebrates the Big 1-0.(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... Slated for Sept. 28-29, the 10th Annual NW Tech Days & Vendor Show is sponsored by the Cascade Range, Mt. Rainier, Inland Empire, Mid-Columbia and Rogue chapters of SCTE (www.scte.org). The event features Rouzbeh Yassini, the "Father of the...

IP Telephony: Will Cable Dominate?(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... The Yankee Group (www.yankeegroup.com) recently forecasted that cable will have the majority of VoIP lines by the end of 2005. With a million VoIP subscribers right now, Yankee says that will blossom to 17.5 million by year-end 2008. Cable will...

Calling All Nominations for SCTE Board Election 2005.
September 14, 2004... Have you ever wanted to serve on the SCTE Board of Directors, or do you know someone you'd like to nominate? Put a name in the running by Fri., Oct. 1 at http://www.scte.org/membership/index.cfm?pID=126, and it will be considered for inclusion...

VoIP Engineering Powwow: Best Practices and Reliability Take Center Stage.(Voice over Internet Protocol)
September 21, 2004... Participants at last week's Advance VoIP symposium in Philadelphia put a premium on technical fundamentals, organizational behavior and network reliability. The event was presented by SCTE and Communications Technology magazine. Inside...

Security and Regulatory Issues: Bumps in the VoIP Night?(voice over internet protocol)
September 21, 2004... Beside the telco competition, operators also face other external threats when it comes to rolling out IP telephony. According to Eric Rosenfeld, CableLabs' (www.cablelabs.com) director of security for PacketCable, service disruption poses the...

Missed the VoIP Symposium? Order a DVD or the White Papers.(voice over internet protocol )(digital versatile disc)(Brief Article)
September 21, 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...

Will Cable Dominate IP Telephony?(internet protocol)(Brief Article)
September 21, 2004... The Yankee Group (www.yankeegroup.com) recently forecasted that cable will have the majority of VoIP lines by the end of 2005. With a million VoIP subscribers right now, Yankee says that will blossom to 17.5 million by year-end 2008. Cable will...

Calling All Nominations for SCTE Board Election 2005.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers)
September 21, 2004... Have you ever wanted to serve on the SCTE Board of Directors, or do you know someone you'd like to nominate? Put a name in the running by Fri., Oct. 1 at http://www.scte.org/membership/index.cfm?pID=126, and it will be considered for inclusion...

How to Engineer IP Voice With OPEX and CAPEX in Mind.
September 28, 2004... Containing system capital expenses and streamlining operational expenses are the keys to advanced IP service engineering, Mike Clement, director of voice over cable solutions at Siemens, said earlier this month at the Advanced VoIP Deployment...

VoIP: Life Beyond Voice.(VoIP Protocols)
September 28, 2004... Say VoIP, and its not just visions of voice services that are dancing in the heads of today's cable engineers. One step beyond are multimedia apps--driven by the promise of CableLabs' (www.cablelabs.com) PacketCable Multimedia (PCMM) spec. ...

Missed the VoIP Symposium? Order a DVD or the White Papers.
September 28, 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...

Will Cable Dominate IP Telephony?
September 28, 2004... The Yankee Group (www.yankeegroup.com) recently forecasted that cable will have the majority of VoIP lines by the end of 2005. With a million VoIP subscribers right now, Yankee says that will blossom to 17.5 million by year-end 2008. Cable will...

Know a Colleague Who's 'Not Technical'?
September 28, 2004... Encourage him or her to attend SCTE's new comprehensive seminar designed just for them, "Cable Technology for the Nontechnical Professional," taking place Monday, Oct. 18 in New York City and Tuesday, Oct. 19 in Ontario, Calif. Please forward...