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WOW Picks Motorola VOD Servers
By Todd Spangler, June 19, 2007Orlando, 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, 2007Orlando, 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, 2007Orlando, 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, 2007Welcome 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, 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
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News from The Show
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Cable Tech Execs Bullish On Internet Video Set-Top
By Todd Spangler, February 9, 2009
A confab of CableLabs technology executives voted a palm-size set-top box that can play Internet video on a TV set the "best new idea" most likely to succeed in the cable industry, out of a field of 10 company presentations. More
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SCTE: Cable-Tec Expo Attendance Up 6%
By Todd Spangler, June 22, 2007The SCTE said its Cable-Tec Expo 2007, held this week in Orlando, Fla., had 10,700 attendees, up 6% from last year’s event. The trade group added that Charter Communications CTO Marwan Fawaz will be chairman of the Cable-Tec Expo 2008 program subcommittee. More -
SCTE to Certify IP Pros
By Todd Spangler, June 22, 2007The SCTE introduced a certification program for cable professionals who maintain IP networks. More -
How Time Warner Austin Did Switched Digital
By Todd Spangler, June 21, 2007Orlando, Fla. --- Todd Bowen, director of digital systems for Time Warner Cable’s Austin, Texas, division, delivered a key piece of wisdom for those deploying switched digital video: Be sure to get the right channels in the mix. More -
Todd Spangler’s Journal: Day Three
By Todd Spangler, June 21, 2007
Orlando, Fla. -- Another day, another couple-hundred HD channels. More
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EGT Blends Up an IPTV Encoder
By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2007Orlando, Fla. -- EGT developed an Internet-protocol-video encoder capable of handling up to 36 MPEG-2 channels, 18 MPEG-4 channels or a combination of each. More -
Vyyo Taps Into Bentley's Mapping System
By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2007Orlando, Fla. -- Vyyo is working with engineering-management software vendor Bentley Systems to streamline the process of implementing Vyyo's spectrum-overlay platform for cable operators. More -
Operators Going Slow on Pivot Wireless
By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2007Orlando, Fla. -- Executives from Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable indicated that they’re taking their time ramping up Pivot-branded mobile-phone service through their joint venture with Sprint Nextel. Cox president Pat Esser described some initial challenges in rolling out the Pivot service speaking on a CEO panel here at the SCTE's Cable-Tec Expo 2007. More -
Cox Targets 50 HD Channels by Year-End
By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2007Orlando, Fla. -- Cox Communications president Pat Esser said the operator is aiming to have the capacity to offer 50 HD channels across its systems by the end of 2007, and it hopes to double that to 100 by the end of 2009. More -
SCTE Hands Out Awards at Cable-Tec Expo 2007
By David Cohen, June 20, 2007The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers gave away some hardware at its Cable-Tec Expo 2007 in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday. More -
C-COR, Harmonic Team Up on Switched Digital Video
By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2007Orlando, Fla. -- C-COR and Harmonic paired off at the switched-digital-video dance, combining their technologies to deliver an SDV solution targeted toward cable operators. More -
SA Ships Universal Session and Resource Manager
By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2007Orlando, Fla. -- Scientific Atlanta said it is now shipping the Universal Session and Resource Manager, which allows both VOD and switched-digital-video streams to be served from the same pool of QAM devices. More -
Todd Spangler’s Journal: Day Two
By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2007The 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, 2007Orlando, 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, 2007Orlando, 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, 2007Orlando, 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, 2007Orlando, 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, 2007Orlando, 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, 2007Orlando, 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, 2007Orlando, 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
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