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04/01/2009
Cox Business to Propel Revenue Growth
Cox Communications is counting on its business unit in a big way. Cox Business is shooting for $1 billion in annual revenue by 2010. "We’re going to come fairly close to that this year," said Cox Business VP Phil Meeks, who’s been heading up this unit within the company since July 2008. "We’re on track […]
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04/01/2009
Carriage
Time Warner Cable reached a retrans deal with Cox Media 's WSOC and WAXN in the Charlotte area ( Cfax , 3/27 ). Terms weren't disclosed. — Cablevision will launch Style this week in new markets across
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04/01/2009
Broadband: Another Look at Upstream 64-QAM
My April 2007 column highlighted the efforts of Midcontinent Communications, a Midwestern cable operator, to deploy upstream 64-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) in a half-dozen nodes (www.cable360.net/ct/operations/bestpractices/22839.html). As of late 2008, the company had rolled out 6.4 MHz bandwidth 64-QAM in more than 60 nodes, largely problem-free. During the past couple years, a number of other […]
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03/31/2009
Optimum Lightpath Revs up NY Non-Profit
Family Service League, a non-profit in the New York metropolitan area, is enjoying the fruits of Optimum Lightpath’s labor. The 83-year-old organization has migrated from a frame relay system to Optimum Lightpath’s all-fiber optic network, connected its headquarters and several of its regional centers, and increased network capacity by 700 percent. "The speed inherent (to […]
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03/30/2009
Fiber Sets Stage for Rural Broadband
In February, when talk of a broadband stimulus program was still speculative, Infinera announced its DTN Digital Optical Networking system had been approved for use by companies using USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) funding. (For more, click here.) It turns out RUS will be the agency distributing $2.5 billion to bring high-speed Internet access to […]
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03/26/2009
Irdeto Looks at Online Video and Beyond
After Time Warner and Comcast’s recent announcements that they intend to greatly expand their online video presence in 2009, there have been a plethora of announcements from vendors claiming to have the perfect end-to-end Internet video solution. There will undoubtedly be more at next week’s Cable Show in Washington, D.C. For more on online video […]