Todd Spangler s Journal
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Fujitsu Delivers Integrated 40-Gbps Optical Wavelengths
By Todd Spangler, June 18, 2007Fujitsu 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, 2007Motorola 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, 2007Sling 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, 2007Everstream 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, 2007Arris 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, 2007Microsoft 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, 2007Cisco Systems wants to help cable operators break into the great outdoors. More -
Terayon Shapes MPEG-4
By Todd Spangler, June 17, 2007Terayon 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
News from The Show
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SCTE Conference At Dartmouth Adds Focus On Women In Cable
MCN Staff, January 23, 2012The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business announced the addition of several events to their executive-leadership program this spring focused on opportunities for women in cable engineering. More -
SCTE Taps Comcast's Davidson As VP Engineering, Network Ops
MCN Staff, January 3, 2012The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers named Marty Davidson, previously Comcast's head of network operations, as vice president of engineering and network operations. More -
Comcast's Smit, Werner And Schanz To Speak At SCTE's 2012 Leadership Program
Todd Spangler, December 19, 2011The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has lined up a trio of Comcast Cable bigwigs -- president and CEO Neil Smit, CTO Tony Werner and chief network officer John Schanz -- as guest speakers at the SCTE-Tuck Executive Leadership Program at Dartmouth College next year. More -
SCTE Teams With Georgia Tech For Management Program
By Todd Spangler, December 8, 2011The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers is working with the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Management to create a one-week course on management skills aimed at midlevel cable engineering and operations pros. More -
Cable-Tec Expo: Time Warner Cable's Callahan Crowned 'IP Challenge' Champ
MCN Staff, November 18, 2011Time Warner Cable senior network engineer Steven Callahan won the inaugural SCTE IP Challenge, beating a field of eight other engineers and cable professionals in a test of their Internet Procotol prowess. More -
Cable-Tec Expo: SCTE Lures More Than 10,000 To Atlanta Confab
By Todd Spangler, November 17, 2011
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' flagship Cable-Tec Expo had its biggest turnout in three years, attracting more than 10,000 attendees to the conference and exposition at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center this week. More
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Cable-Tec Expo: SCTE Names Charter's Gorman Member Of The Year
MCN Staff, November 17, 2011The SCTE honored Tom Gorman, vice president of field operations at Charter Communications, with the SCTE Member of the Year Award, citing his work in changing the structure and mission of the organization's board of directors. More
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Cable-Tec Expo: DOCSIS Gear Prices Falling As Bandwidth Usage Soars
By Todd Spangler, November 16, 2011Atlanta — The cost of DOCSIS equipment is dropping about as quickly as the amount of Internet traffic is increasing -- but the long-term transition to IPTV still represents a looming "pain point" for operators, Arris chairman and CEO Bob Stanzione said. More -
Cable-Tec Expo: New Platforms Offer 'Promise' Of Profit
by MCN Staff, November 15, 2011Atlanta — Cable companies aren't quite sure how or even when cable consumers' desire for more devices will become a profit center instead of a cost -- but it's coming. More -
Cable-Tec Expo: Cox's Esser: Cable Has To Compress Innovation Cycles
By Todd Spangler, November 15, 2011
Atlanta — Cox Communications president Pat Esser said the cable industry needs to cut down its product-revision cycles from years to months, to have the agility to meet changing expectations of the next generation of consumers. More
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