CT's Pipeline articles from September 2007

CT's Pipeline archives from September 2007

FCC Inquiry Sparks Debate.
September 4, 2007... NCTA and CEA Differ on Portability The vice president and general counsel for the NCTA thinks that the organization's filing late last month solves the problem of portability - in three ways. The Consumer Electronics Association,...

Engineering News.
September 4, 2007... GIS: A Call for an HFC Standard Enterprise geographic information system (GIS) solutions and applications have been on the table for many years. The Broadband GIS Leadership Forum (www.broadbandgis.org) has tried, with mixed success, to...

Broadband Soapbox: SDV and the Limits to 'Cable-Ready'.
September 4, 2007... As noted in today's lead story, the NCTA says that a firmware upgrade can solve the dilemma of "cable-ready" TV sets unable to tune into switched digital video (SDV) streams. This fix wouldn't work for full, two-way programming, such as VOD,...

SCTE Announcements.
September 4, 2007... Registration Under Way for SCTE Hot-Topic Symposium Sign up today for the SCTE Business Services Symposium, set forThursday to Friday, Oct. 18-19, at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel in Atlanta. Get the full details of what's in store and...

Pipeline Profile: Ralph Brown.
September 4, 2007... Title: Chief technology officer, CableLabs Broadband background: Brown is CableLabs' CTO. Previously, he served as senior vice president of the Broadband Access Department within CableLabs, which is responsible for DOCSIS and CableHome...

Home Networking.
September 11, 2007... Cox Rolls Out Home Remedies Cox sees home networking and computer services as a revenue-generating opportunity. Such services, the operator believes, also make it easier to add to the services already sold to subscribers and, perhaps...

Engineering News.
September 11, 2007... More Top Tiers: Comcast Boston and Cablevision Comcast Boston, an award-winning voice services provider, and Cablevision, the aggressive multiple system operator (MSO) engineered as a single system, join Midcontinent Communications...

Broadband Soapbox.
September 11, 2007... CableCards: Here to Stay, or Momentary Aberration? Here's your chance to answer the same question we asked Tom Rosenstein in his profile at right: Many cable folks seem to think that CableCards will be only a temporary annoyance...

SCTE Announcements.
September 11, 2007... Register for the SCTE Hot-Topic Symposium Sign up today for the SCTE Business Services Symposium, set forThursday to Friday, Oct. 18-19, at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel in Atlanta. Get the full details of what's in store and register...

Pipeline Profile: Tom Rosenstein.
September 11, 2007... Title: VP Product Marketing and Alliances, SeaChange International Broadband background: Rosenstein has been involved in the video and high- technology industries for 20 years, with activities spanning market development, sales and product...

McSlarrow Shares Big Picture.(Kyle McSlarrow)
September 18, 2007... FCC Rule Discussed Appearing as a guest on C-SPAN's The Communicators over the weekend, NCTA President and CEO Kyle McSlarrow expressed satisfaction with the three-year time limit placed on the viewability requirements in recent action...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
September 18, 2007... CableCards: Here to Stay, or Momentary Aberration? Here's a response we received to last week's query in Broadband Soapbox about the future of CableCards. It referred to this interview with Tom Rosenstein of SeaChange International. ...

Broadband Soapbox: A La Carte Forecast?
September 18, 2007... In today's lead story, NCTA President/CEO Kyle McSlarrow calls a la carte programming "anti-consumer," with subs paying less for more. Maybe; maybe not. Some would argue that a la carte programming lets consumers buy what they want and not...

SCTE Announcements.
September 18, 2007... SCTE Hot-Topic Symposium Keynote Announced; Register Today Sign up now for the SCTE Business Services Symposium, set for Thursday to Friday, Oct. 18-19, at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel in Atlanta and featuring just-announced keynote...

Pipeline Profile: Louise Games.
September 18, 2007... Title: Vice President, Membership Services, SCTE Background: Games comes to SCTE from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), where she was vice president of marketing and membership since August 1995. How long have...

Arris and C-Cor Shake Hands: Network Demands Spur Acquisition.
September 25, 2007... The stated rationale behind the Arris acquisition of C-Cor, which was announced late on September 25, is simple: Cable subscribers are using a ton more capacity, they want on-demand and highly interactive programming and applications and...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
September 25, 2007... A la carte? Non, merci. Here's a note we received in response to last week's Broadband Soapbox about whether a la carte programming is anti-consumer or not: It's funny, before I got into the cable industry I really wished that I...

Broadband Soapbox: Time for a Broadband GIS Standard?
September 25, 2007... In the current issue of Communications Technology, Sean Bristol, Comcast director of engineering, Seattle, argues that although enterprise GIS systems have been around for a while, it's time to push for a standard, geographical information...

SCTE Announcements.(Calendar)
September 25, 2007... Have You Registered Yet for the SCTE Hot-Topic Symposium? Sign up now for the SCTE Business Services Symposium, set forThursday to Friday, Oct. 18-19 at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel in Atlanta. Themed "Business Services: From...

Pipeline Profile: Sally Kinsman.(Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers)(Interview)
September 25, 2007... Title: National Account Director, Aurora Networks Background: Kinsman has served on SCTE's board twice, completing her most recent tenure this year at Cable-Tec Expo, where she was presented with the Chairman's Award for her dedication to...