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• Todd Spangler’s Journal: Day Two

  By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2007
  The word of the day at the SCTE's Cable-Tec Expo 2007  is, well, actually two words: high-definition.  More

• Solekai Systems Forms 'Indie' Cable-Testing Lab

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- Solekai Systems wants to become the go-to service for anyone who needs to test the interoperability of digital-video devices and applications.  More

• Pace, Broadcom Bond Over DOCSIS 2.0

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- Can't wait for 3.0? Set-top-box maker Pace Micro Technology will use Broadcom's chips in its set-top boxes to bond multiple downstream DOCSIS 2.0 channels -- and deliver download speeds of 100 megabits per second.  More

• Cox Picks BroadSoft for Business Voice Services

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- Cox Business Services selected BroadSoft’s BroadWorks voice-over-Internet-protocol platform to provide services for small and midsized businesses.  More

• Buckeye Keeps Eye on Video Quality

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- Buckeye CableSystem deployed Mixed Signals’ video-monitoring system, which can identify transmission errors in video and audio in a digital-cable network.  More

• EGT Adds Failure Protection to Edge Processor

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- EGT added several features to its Headend Micro (HEMi) edge video-processor products, including one it intended to deliver six months ago: the ability to let channels continue being transmitted even if the device is offline.  More

• PhyFlex Drives Out a Mini

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- PhyFlex Networks, the Ethernet-over-coax equipment provider formerly known as Narad Networks, is introducing the miniX, an outdoor converter designed to provide Ethernet services to one or two customers.  More

• Motorola Cranks Up CMTS to 5 Gbps

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- Motorola is kicking up the advertised capacity of its BSR 64000 cable-modem-termination system by a factor of five -- claiming that it can provide up to 5 gigabits per second in a single chassis -- via a new hardware module that supports 32 quadrature-amplitude-modulation channels.  More

• WOW Picks Motorola VOD Servers

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- WideOpenWest selected Motorol#39;s B-1 video-on-demand servers to supply VOD service to customers in its Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, markets.  More

• Scopus Intros 'Headend in a Box' for Digital Simulcast

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- Scopus Video Networks is debuting a headend in a box here, pitching it as a simple and quick way for operators to deploy digital simulcast in their networks.  More

• SCTE Announces 2007-08 Board Officers

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Orlando, Fla. -- The SCTE announced the election of its board officers, who will serve during the 2007-08 term.  More

• Todd Spangler’s Journal: Day One

  By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007
  Welcome to Orlando, Fla., host to some 52 million sweaty tourists from around the world each year. This week, the muggy city will open its portals to about 10,000 cable engineers, technologists and assorted hangers-on.  More

• Fujitsu Delivers Integrated 40-Gbps Optical Wavelengths

  By Todd Spangler, June 18, 2007
  Fujitsu Network Communications will offer what it claimed are fully integrated 40-gigabit-per-second transmission capabilities for the Flashwave 7500 Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer.  More

• Motorola Unlocks IPTV Set-Tops

  By Todd Spangler, June 18, 2007
  Motorola is opening up access to the software in its VIP 1200 IPTV set-top boxes with an application-development platform based on the Linux operating environment.  More

• Sling Media Makes Power Play

  By Todd Spangler, June 18, 2007
  Sling Media announced two devices that create a network over the electrical wiring in a user’s home, with the aim of providing an alternative to running Ethernet network cables or setting up a wireless network to connect to a Slingbox.  More

• Everstream to Dig Into Broadband Metrics

  By Todd Spangler, June 18, 2007
  Everstream is turning up a service that will collect data from cable-modem-termination systems with the promise of letting operators analyze DOCSIS metrics in all their gory detail.  More

• Arris Bonds Wideband Modems with Microtune

  By Todd Spangler, June 18, 2007
  Arris is using Microtune’s MicroTuner MT2060 digital-broadband-tuner chip in the Touchstone WBM650 wideband modem, which supports CableLabs' DOCSIS.  More

• Microsoft Cracks Open Mediaroom IPTV Code

  By Todd Spangler, June 17, 2007
  Microsoft renamed its IPTV software platform -- now called Mediaroom -- and with the new version, the software will allow service providers to create their own interactive-TV applications. Mediaroom, formerly called Microsoft TV IPTV Edition, also adds the ability to let users listen or view to music and photos stored on their PCs on their televisions.  More

• Cisco Takes Wireless Mesh to Cable

  By Todd Spangler, June 17, 2007
  Cisco Systems wants to help cable operators break into the great outdoors.  More

• Terayon Shapes MPEG-4

  By Todd Spangler, June 17, 2007
  Terayon Communication Systems is rolling out the CAP-1000, a new member of its CherryPicker Application Platform line that provides rate-shaping of MPEG-4 video streams.  More

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• SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2009 Draws 9,000

  By Todd Spangler, October 30, 2009
  Denver — The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers announced Friday that approximately 9,000 people attended Cable-Tec Expo 2009, a decrease of 18% from last year's record-setting turnout of 11,000 in Philadelphia.  More

• Cable-Tec Expo 2009: Cisco Debuts 'Blue' IPTV Guide For Cable

  By Todd Spangler, October 29, 2009
  Denver — Cisco Systems has crafted a guide for IPTV set-tops based on a Web-browser -- dubbed Cisco Blue -- aimed at cable operators pondering the eventual switch from traditional RF video delivery.  More

• Cable-Tec Expo 2009: Broadcom Aims At Cable Multiroom DVR

  Todd Spangler, October 28, 2009
  Denver — Broadcom introduced two set-top system-on-a-chip solutions for delivering whole-home HD DVR services, and the company said they're designed to significantly cut power requirements.  More

• Cable-Tec Expo 2009: Rogers Not Sold On Tru2way

  Todd Spangler, October 28, 2009
  Denver — Canada's Rogers Communications has not committed to adopting CableLabs' tru2way technology for interactive TV and "we think there's probably a better answer out there," said Dermot O'Carroll, senior vice president of engineering and network operations.  More

• Cable-Tec Expo 2009: PCT Hires Former Comcast Exec Craddock As CTO

  By Todd Spangler, October 28, 2009
  Denver — PCT International, a manufacturer of access network products for cable networks, has tapped cable and telecommunications veteran Steve Craddock -- who previously led Comcast's DOCSIS development efforts -- as executive vice president and chief technology officer.  More

• Cable-Tec Expo 2009: BigBand Doubles Edge QAM Density

  Todd Spangler, October 28, 2009
  Denver — BigBand Networks is packing more channels into its universal edge QAM platform, with the introduction of the BEQ6200 that can provide 96 QAMs in a 1.5-rack-unit box.  More

• Cable-Tec Expo 2009: Pace Picks Up Multiroom DVR Customers

  Todd Spangler, October 28, 2009
  Denver — Cable operators including Mediacom Communications, Buckeye CableSystem and Sunflower Broadband, are nearing completion of field trials of Pace's recently announced multiroom DVR solution.  More

• Cable-Tec Expo 2009: TM Forum Opens Internet-Monitoring Spec To Cable

  By Todd Spangler, October 28, 2009
  Denver — Telecommunications-industry group TM Forum, as part of its outreach to the cable industry, will make the Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) interface specification -- incorporated into several CableLabs technologies, including DOCSIS 3.0 -- publically available to anyone who wants it.  More

• Cable-Tec Expo 2009: Motorola Slims Down HD Set-Tops

  By Todd Spangler, October 27, 2009
  Denver — Motorola will be showing off an all-digital, non-DVR high-definition cable set-top box designed to be less expensive for operators to deploy en masse by eliminating the analog tuner, among a smorgasbord of other wares at SCTE's Cable-Tec Expo here this week.  More

• Cable-Tec Expo 2009: Antronix Mixes MoCA

  By Todd Spangler, October 27, 2009
  Antronix announced a family of products designed to address home-networking applications in the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) pass band from 1125 to 1525 MHz.  More