Todd Spangler

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Verizon Pulls the Fiber Alarm

Not that I blame Verizon for trying to defend its $23 billion FiOS fiber-to-the-home network, but the telco’s objection to Comcast’s claim that it delivers services over a fiber-optic network is just plain silly (see Better Business Bureau Refers Comcast ‘Fiber-Optic’ Claim To FTC ). Why is it silly? Because Comcast actually does deliver services over a... More

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Here Comes the Broadband-Enabled Car

What could you do with 100 Mbps under the hood? Alcatel-Lucent, along with Toyota and other partners, is showing off a 2010 Prius outfitted with a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband connection that provides a slew of entertainment and information services — including video on demand, piped into the rear-seat headrests, to divert whiny kids on their way to Grandma’s... More

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IPTV for Cable: Arris Is Totally Into Bondage

One more parting shot from Cable-Tec Expo from last week: Arris had an IPTV-over-DOCSIS demo in its booth showing what it claimed was more than 50% bandwidth savings possible when delivering IP video over bonded DOCSIS 3.0 channels vs. traditional RF QAM channels. Arris was pumping 50 concurrent streams of movie trailers (high-action content; hard to compress) from a Verivue MDX9200 VOD... More

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Cable-Tec Expo: That's a Wrap

Last week’s Cable-Tec Expo may have been lighter on attendees ( 9,000 in Denver vs. 11,000 in Philadelphia in 2008) but it was heavy on interesting demos, new products and forward-thinking ideas. Several technologies that have been stuck in labs-based demos for years — IP video over cable, interactive TV, network DVR and multiroom DVR — appeared to have all the pieces... More

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Moto Imagines a 'Universal' 3DTV Set-Top

Denver — 3D television broadcasts are years away , but Motorola is already talking about delivering digital set-top boxes that would be able to convert 3DTV video into any other 3DTV format. In a demo on the show floor here at Cable-Tec Expo, Motorola has a VIP 1225 IP set-top playing U2 concert footage viewable in 3D using active glasses from XpanD . A DCX3400 cable box is playing... More