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06/09/2009
Comcast Rolls Out Wideband in DC
Comcast today announced it is launching DOCSIS 3.0 in the Washington, D.C., metro area. With DOCSIS 3.0, which the company is calling wideband, Comcast will offer a new echelon of Internet speed tiers. With wideband, Comcast will offer the Extreme 50 tier with download speeds of up to 50 Mbps. Wideband will also enable Comcast […]
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06/08/2009
Cox Speaks Healthcare
The challenge of delivering premium non-residential services is sometimes a matter of tailoring products to the unique requirements of vertical industries. That appears to be what Cox Business has done regarding the communications needs of Gateway Healthcare, a Rhode Island-based, non-profit behavioral healthcare organization. (For more on cable telecommunications and healthcare, click here and here.) […]
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06/08/2009
Small Operator Marks One Year of Voice
While residential – if not business – telephony became old hat several years ago for many large MSOs, some smaller operators are still celebrating initial success in this market. Avenue Broadband, a cable operator with about 38,000 subscribers, serving communities in southern Indiana and Illinois, launched an IP-based digital voice service in June 2008. After […]
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06/04/2009
Space Weather: What It Is and Why It Matters
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting a mild solar storm season for the next 11-year solar cycle. (For the initial announcement, click here.) But what does that mean, and why do we care?What it isTo simplify, space weather is electromagnetic stuff happening in space – usually involving the sun – that can […]
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06/04/2009
Content Anywhere Responds to TV Everywhere
It’s amazing how fast the vendor community can respond. In March, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, announced an initiative dubbed "TV Everywhere" to put cable programming online, but with the caveat that customers would still have to subscribe to cable TV to view the programming. Immediately after his announcement, the industry was abuzz with its […]
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06/03/2009
Broadband Industry, Meet the Jetsons
In the 1960s, Hanna-Barbera produced an animated show, "The Jetsons," depicting family life in a futuristic utopia. Those of us of a certain demographic can probably still hum the catchy theme song, "Meet George Jetson …." Jump to 2009, and the world is full of some Jetson-like technology we all take for granted such as […]