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12/01/2011
The 2011 CT Platinum Award Winners
Cloud Software for Subscribers Comcast Interactive Media – Xfinity TV App (operator winner) Targeting Comcast Xfinity TV customers who have digital cable subscriptions, the Xfinity TV product and its back-end components – introduced in the fall of 2010 as a complementary download that would deliver an expanded entertainment experience customers could take anywhere – were […]
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12/01/2011
Communications Technology’s 2011 Hall of Fame
Jorge Salinger In recognition of his work to explain and promote the Comcast, Time Warner Cable and other CableLabs members’ Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) initiative. Jorge Salinger, vice president/Access Network Architecture at Comcast Cable, almost has two jobs. His “day job” is being responsible for the company’s converged-platforms video, high-speed data, voice-access-network strategy and […]
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12/01/2011
Bandwidth Goes Over The Top On 4G LTE Networks
Such “over the top” (OTT) content as that provided by Netflix and Pandora Radio is gaining market traction, opening up opportunities and challenging service provider networks. Internet video is now 40 percent of consumer Internet traffic, and it will reach 62 percent by the end of 2015.* This type of bandwidth-heavy content is wreaking havoc […]
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12/01/2011
The 2011 System of the Year: Buckeye CableSystem – 'The Right People, The Right Comm
To say that the markets served by Buckeye CableSystem are challenged doesn’t quite describe the economic status of much of northwest Ohio and parts of southeast Michigan. “Toledo has been in a recession since 2005, and we aren’t out of it yet,” says Joe Jensen, executive vice president/CTO at Buckeye CableSystem and executive vice president […]
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11/01/2011
Why Cable Should Care About CDNs
By Linda Hardesty, Associate Editor This month’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo features two workshops dealing with content delivery networks (CDNs), and there's a good chance the topic will come up during the
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11/01/2011
An Energy Policy For Cable Operators: Import More Revenue
Operators are busy developing services and architectures aligned with trends in consumer expectations, online activities and social-networking behaviors. At the heart of these initiatives is the creation of converged experiences that integrate the consumer’s most valued media – premium video content – with the Web, device, social and app-enabled activity now part of their everyday […]