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09/16/2009
CableFAX's Guide to New Cable Programming: Fall 2009
In the days of All in the Family, Get Smart and The Dick Van Dyke Show, fall was traditionally the season for premieres of TV shows, but TV and its calendar aren’t what they used to be. New shows appear throughout the year now, but TV’s roots run deep. As you can see in this […]
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09/02/2009
Venerable Queen Goes Wireless
It has 14 art deco salons, a boatload of history and an illustrious career dating back to 1936. Permanently anchored some four decades ago and used as a luxury hotel and conference center in Long Beach, Calif., the Queen Mary has now gone wireless. But cutting the cords has been no pleasure cruise. The venerable […]
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09/01/2009
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ipv6
Up ahead at the edge of the IPv4 universe are these bridges: Dual-Stack Lite and NAT444.
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09/01/2009
Broadband: Making MER Better: Part II
Modulation error ratio (MER), as I noted in August’s column, is an important but frequently misunderstood performance metric for the forward and return digital signals carried on our networks. Many cable operators place a fair amount of emphasis on MER — also called SNR or signal-to-noise ratio — as part of overall network or per-channel […]
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09/01/2009
Aerohive Generates SLA Buzz
As Wi-Fi has expanded from coffee shop novelty to mobile workforce necessity, customers are expecting more reliability than ever. One company aiming to meet those demands is Aerohive Networks. The wireless LAN developer has added new visibility and troubleshooting features to its HiveManager 3.4 WiFi management system, turning the wireless networking tool into what the […]
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08/31/2009
SIP Expert Tags Enterprise Market
A chat earlier this summer with Cisco Fellow Jonathan Rosenberg helped plot a few trends lines for session initiation protocol (SIP). Also commonly known as request for comment (RFC) 3261 of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IEFT), but comprised of some 150 total RFCs, SIP is gaining traction within business communications. “We’re definitely seeing a […]