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Comcast's CTO Tony Werner provides a network update on all the big cable themes: Docsis 3.0, tru2way, upstream channel bonding, and EBIF. He notes that Comcast will be lab testing upstream bonding equipment this year and rolling some out over the course of next year. That will not only speed up consumer upstream connections, but will also help the network handle advanced applications, like multicasting, more easily
The advertising market is down overall, but Transpera CEO Frank Barbieri says targeted mobile ads are starting to pay off for some of the world's largest content makers and carriers. Brand awareness and brand recall are high for some of the early adopters, and that early success is fueling more investment in the sector
Executives from Cisco, Motorola, Arris, and SeaChange offer a scattershot of opinions on how the cable industry can protect its advertising revenue and avoid losing ad dollars to the Internet and IPTV
Open IPTV Forum's Huw Price-Stephens talks about the challenges facing IPTV, such as making applications portable between networks. He also notes that there is a challenge to make all the content available on IPTV networks easy enough for consumers to find
At CTIA Wireless 2009, Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan discusses the mobile broadband boom, access independent gateways, and Alcatel-Lucent's new 4G product line
Graham Finnie defines policy management and describes the controversy surrounding where in the network it should go. Also, he weighs in on the best way to manage deep packet inspection