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11/25/2008
Leakage Revisited
Twenty-five years ago, with regulators and the cable industry struggling to agree on an acceptable use of the aeronautical band, signal leakage was a very hot topic. The rules that emerged from those days turned leakage into what editors call an "evergreen" topic – suitable for discussion in any of the four seasons. But change […]
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11/24/2008
Competition from … Video Games?
The competitive landscape is tricky enough for cable operators, with satellite providers and telcos on the scene. Now companies like Microsoft and Sony are making video moves with game console-affiliated media portals like Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network. Research consultancy The Diffusion Group estimates that today 90 million households worldwide have game consoles, 41 million […]
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11/20/2008
Microtune Touts Flexibility
Microtune’s announcement this week (click here) of a new wideband upstream amplifier was an opportunity for the company to promote the cause of DOCSIS 3.0 flexibility. The MT1570 upstream amplifier can deliver 120 Mbps upstream via four bonded upstream channels from 5 to 85 MHz, according to Microtune, which also features the MT2170 wideband tuner […]
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11/18/2008
CEA Gears Up for Vegas Show
Despite the downturn in the economy, the Consumer Electronics Association says pre-registration is "very strong" for the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will take place in Las Vegas, Jan. 8-11. There will be more than 2,700 exhibitors covering 1.7 million square feet of show floor, which represents a 7 to 8 percent decrease […]
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11/17/2008
GPON Interops
The Full Service Access Network (FSAN) held its seventh GPON interoperability test event in late October, drawing a dozen vendors of optical line termination (OLT) and optical network termination (ONT) equipment together to focus on GPON’s ONT management control interface (OMCI). (For a quick overview of the different flavors of PON, click here. For a […]
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11/13/2008
DTV Elsewhere
All eyes in the United States are on the Feb. 17 deadline (see here and here, for example), but there is plenty of digital TV transition activity occurring elsewhere. The European Commission (EC), for instance, has set a target date of 2012 for what is commonly referred to as analog shut off (ASO), with Luxembourg, […]