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12/22/2008
IPTV: One Outfit Dies, Another Thrives
Last week, SES Americom announced it was closing down IP-Prime, its company that offers IPTV services to small domestic telcos. A few days later, Avail Media, which plays in the same rural IPTV space, announced it had experienced unprecedented growth in 2008. Although IP-Prime was a competitor of Avail, the folks at Avail aren’t dancing […]
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12/18/2008
EBIF Offers Set-Top Workaround
For those working on the leading edge of interactive TV technologies, the cable set-top box presents a challenge. To deal with it, four more companies have joined itaas’ enhanced TV developer program to work on enhanced binary interface format (EBIF) applications. CableLabs’ EBIF specification has garnered a flurry of attention recently, perhaps because Comcast announced […]
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12/16/2008
Cox Realigns Leadership
A week ago, Cox Communications announced the appointment of Leo Brennan to chief operations officer, effective Jan 1. Additional personnel news then emerged, including the planned retirement of Cox SVP and CTO Chris Bowick. As reported last Thursday by our colleagues at CableFAX Daily, Cox President Pat Esser is realigning his direct reports, also effective […]
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12/15/2008
40G and a Horserace
Operators and carriers are moving 40 Gbps (40G) optical networking equipment, with vendors touting deals and market share, and all sides positioning for the shift to 100G. (To read about recent 40G activity, click here and here.) The 40G market finally has entered "a generalized deployment phase," said Ron Kline, research director at Ovum and […]
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12/11/2008
VOD Small-Scale Analysis
Operators of small and medium-sized cable systems historically have had trouble creating a viable business model for video on demand (VOD). Since early 2007, the Comcast Media Center and ARRIS (then C-COR) have offered a product, VOD In a Box, which provides a turnkey VOD solution for cable systems with 25,000 or fewer digital subscribers. […]
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12/09/2008
Online Video Viewership Explodes
Cable viewers are watching large amounts of online video, even twice as much as video on demand (VOD), according to a recent survey. "Video views exploded across the industry," writes Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform and SVP, content publishing, for Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) in an end of year post on his Web site. (For […]