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03/16/2006
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Switched Broadcast Ready for Prime Time The tide is turning from theory to reality for switched broadcast. The March issue of Communications Technology has the story at http://www.ct-magazine.com/archives/ct/0306/0306_switchedbroadcast.htm. Verizon Cuts Cost with MoCA ZDNet writes that Verizon plans on cutting the cost of its FIOS deployment by using Multimedia over Coax Alliance technology. Read about […]
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03/09/2006
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OpenCable POD For a complete rundown on the OpenCable point of deployment module (POD) for digital TV check out this story in Communications Technology at http://www.ct-magazine.com/archives/ct/1000/082_pods.htm. Will AT&T Become Ma Video? Light Reading News Editor Phil Harvey writes that video franchises, cheaper content and unprecedented reach will aid AT&T as it acquires BellSouth and remakes […]
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03/02/2006
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Is Cable Hot for IPTV? Cisco/S-A is betting that cable operators will want to jump in the IPTV waters soon, but some seem to be content with the current MPEG delivery. Read more about it in this Communications Technology story at http://www.ct-magazine.com/archives/ct/1105/1105_doiwant.htm Cable Ready to Roam According to Red Herring, CableLabs has come up with […]
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03/01/2006
DOCSIS 3.0
Since its introduction in the 1990s, DOCSIS (short for Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) has emerged as the leading standard for high-speed data transmission over cable networks. DOCSIS 2.0 is the latest member of the DOCSIS family, but a new version—the subject of this month's column—is in the works.
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03/01/2006
Special Section: IP Backbone
Suggesting the strength and flexibility of the human vertebrae and the central nervous system that they enclose, telecommunications professionals have long used the term "backbone" to describe that part of the network that carries the most traffic and connects all local area networks. The cable pioneers who founded this industry certainly displayed lots of another kind of metaphorical "backbone"—guts, persistence, tenacity—but it was only in the 1990s, with the advent of high-speed data and waves of industry consolidation, that the cable equivalent of the telecom backbone emerged.