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Photos: Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies 2010


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February 26, 2010 : Here are some quick pics from our latest cable-centric event in Denver. And, yes, the snow did come... eventually

Comcast: Upstream Bonding Tests Yield 'Sustained' 75 Mbit/s


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February 26, 2010 : MSO exec says lab and field trials of upstream channel bonding are hitting the 75-Mbit/s mark, while some lab trials are holding bursts of 100 Mbit/s

Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick: Docsis 3.0


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February 26, 2010 : Heavy Reading's top cable analyst Alan Breznick fields questions about Docsis 3.0 deployments, applications, and, of course, the speeds and feeds

Comcast Proposes Its God Box


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February 25, 2010 : MSO is close to releasing the hardware specs on the Converged Multiservice Access Platform, a super-dense box that combines CMTS and QAM functions UPDATED 2/26 5:40 PM

Wideband Growth Continues in North America


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February 25, 2010 : Heavy Reading says Docsis 3.0 will pass 90M homes – more than 70.3% of the region's cable canvas – by 2012

Virgin Preps 100-Mbit/s Broadband Launch


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February 25, 2010 : UK's cable player will debut 100-Mbit/s services by the end of 2010, and expand its 200-Mbit/s tech test into a second market
Comment: SDV/Vod? - Jeff Baumgartner February 24, 2010

Cablevision Shows Its Innovative Side


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February 24, 2010 : 12:15 PM But will its PC-to-TV trial rate, as the FCC looks to link set-top innovation to the National Broadband Plan?
Comment: Re: broadsoft - Jeff Baumgartner February 24, 2010

Cablevision to Deliver Net Content to Set-Tops


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February 24, 2010 : MSO testing a system that will allow Internet video to be relayed from the PC, processed in the network, then played on TV

Arris Beats Cisco in CMTS for '09


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February 23, 2010 : Infonetics says a hearty sales surge in Q4 allowed Arris to keep its newly gotten edge over perennial market leader Cisco

Knology Weighs Its Bandwidth Options


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February 23, 2010 : Knology's new CTO makes more room for HDTV

Broadband Disconnect


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February 23, 2010 : 2:10 PM FCC survey: One-third of US adults don't do high-speed Internet at home

MSO Taking the MPEG-4 Plunge


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February 23, 2010 : Zito Media, an MSO run by former Adelphia exec James Rigas, hopes to get the most bang out of its limited bandwidth as it upgrades to digital

Kabel Deutschland to Float an IPO?


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February 22, 2010 : Germany's largest MSO may go for a partial stock offering after rejecting buy-out bids in the range of $6.8 billion to $7.5 billion

Moloney Saying Good-Bye to Moto


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February 22, 2010 : Dan Moloney's set to take the helm of Technitrol, marking the first big exec casualty to come from Moto's decision to split into two UPDATED 1:45 PM

Comcast Eyeing 250-Meg Docsis 3.0?


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February 22, 2010 : 11:00 AM Comcast's reported exploration of a 250-Mbit/s service may indicate the MSO's considering an IPTV simulcast

Policy Watch: Drafting a Broadband Plan


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February 19, 2010 : The FCC buffs up some rough edges, Seattle bats eyes at Google, and cable gets a small taste of broadband stimulus funds
Comment: Re: Alternatives - Jeff Baumgartner February 19, 2010

Blurring the Lines


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February 19, 2010 : 11:00 AM Moto co-CEO Sanjay Jha offers another reason why it makes sense for the company to put its mobile phone and set-top units in one room
Comment: PON/RFoG? - Jeff Baumgartner February 18, 2010

PPC Plucks Evolution Broadband


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February 18, 2010 : But Evolution Digital will remain independent and continue to develop and sell DTAs, TiVo boxes, and headend systems to Tier 2 and 3 cable MSOs
Comment: Oh, Dan! - Jeff Baumgartner February 18, 2010

TiVo: Cable Should Love It Some IP


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February 18, 2010 : TiVo, still no fan of tru2way, says an upstream IP path to cable headends and metadata can remedy the ills of the retail set-top market

Shaw Preps 1-Gig Jig


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February 18, 2010 : 11:30 AM Canadian MSO pulls a Google with speedy fiber trial
Comment: Biz now. Resi later? - Jeff Baumgartner February 17, 2010

The 'Nati Gets Docsis 3.0


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February 17, 2010 : 4:40 PM As expected, Time Warner Cable has begun to light up wideband service in Ohio

Comcast Expanding Broadband Meter Trials


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February 17, 2010 : Following pilots in Portland and Seattle, Comcast plans to begin field tests of its new bit counter in several more markets by the end of February

Verizon Gets First Taste of 'HBO GO' Portal


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February 17, 2010 : Comcast customers visiting HBO GO site are directed to access content through the MSO's Fancast Xfinity TV site

FCC Chair Sets 2020 Broadband Vision


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February 16, 2010 : His '100 Squared' initiative calls for delivery of 100-Mbit/s services to 100 million homes

Docsis 3.0 Update


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February 16, 2010 : 1:40 PM Videotron finishes off its deployment, while Knology is just getting started

Moto: S-CDMA Starting to Spread


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February 16, 2010 : CMTS maker says MSOs in the US, South America, Europe, and Asia have switched on the upstream-boosting technology
Comment: more than posturing? - Jeff Baumgartner February 12, 2010

Xfinity Gets Into the Games


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February 12, 2010 : 5:20 PM Confused about Comcast's branding overhaul? An ad debuting during tonight's opening ceremonies tries to explain

Cheetah Grabs Symmetricom's V-Factor


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February 12, 2010 : Cheetah CEO says his company is poised to generate five to ten times the revenues Symmetricom was getting from the V-Factor product line
Comment: Cheetah Snags It - Jeff Baumgartner February 12, 2010

Moto Wants to Do the Splits


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February 11, 2010 : The sale is off! Moto now plans to spin its mobile phone and set-top biz and its mobile networks unit into two independent, publicly traded companies
Comment: It's official - Jeff Baumgartner February 11, 2010

What's Moto's Next Move?


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February 11, 2010 : 5:20 PM Rumor mill now has Moto combining its handset and set-top businesses and spinning them off

Time Warner Cable's Next Docsis 3.0 Targets


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February 11, 2010 : Sources say TWC's next 'surgical' wideband strikes will hit parts of Texas, Ohio, and upstate New York

Arris Expects Less From Comcast in 2010


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February 11, 2010 : Vendor expects sales to Comcast to be down this year, but is hopeful that shipments to Time Warner Cable and other MSOs will more than fill the gap

Cable to the Core


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February 11, 2010 : 10:40 AM Cable Digital News is now Light Reading Cable – here's why
Comment: a $750M gambit? - Jeff Baumgartner February 10, 2010

Google's Pointy Stick


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February 10, 2010 : 3:00 PM Will Google's fiber 'experiment' accelerate cable's development of Docsis 4.0 and a move toward gigabit speeds?

Cisco Alters CMTS Vision With '20/20' Card


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February 10, 2010 : Cisco is peddling a new line card that signals a move toward an 'integrated' CMTS architecture

TI's Wideband Breakthrough


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February 9, 2010 : Broadcom's no longer got dibs on the only Docsis 3.0-certified products capable of pumping out downstream speeds of 320 Mbit/s

EBIF Gets an Upgrade


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February 9, 2010 : New IO6 specs from CableLabs add support for unbound ITV apps, but EBIF vendors don't believe the upgrade will require a major overhaul UPDATED 5:35 PM
Comment: Evolution's uDTA - Jeff Baumgartner February 8, 2010

DTAs Getting Smaller, Cheaper & 'Universal'


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February 8, 2010 : Comcast's already trialing a version 4.0 digital terminal adapter based on new Broadcom chips that can run Moto and Cisco content protection schemes

Jinni Puts Cable Guys in the Mood


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February 8, 2010 : 5:05 PM Cablers at CableLabs 'Innovation Showcase' view Jinni's mood-based video finder as the idea most likely to succeed

BelAir Backhauls Docsis 3.0


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February 8, 2010 : Cablevision among the early takers for a wideband-capable WiFi access point optimized for wireless video and voice applications

Policy Watch: Fired Up Over NBC, Net Neutrality


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February 5, 2010 : Believe it or not, some of the telecom action in DC doesn't involve the proposed Comcast-NBCU deal

Symmetricom Clocks Out of Video Monitoring


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February 5, 2010 : Company puts its struggling 'Quality of Experience' business on the block, claims to have a potential buyer already on the line
Comment: Boxee Blast - Jeff Baumgartner February 4, 2010

Comcast on the iPad: It's All Good


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February 4, 2010 : 11:20 AM CEO downplays the threat, sees Apple device as a new outlet for Comcast's programming

Is SDV Poised for a Comeback?


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February 4, 2010 : Comcast may revive its interest in switched digital video now that its big analog reclamation project is well underway

Huawei Gets Box Break at the FCC


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February 3, 2010 : FCC blesses two DTAs from Huawei and three more from Evolution, while another Chinese vendor, CoShip, guns for a box waiver of its own

Comcast to Wrap Wideband, All-Digital Rollout This Year


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February 3, 2010 : MSO expects to polish off two key projects this year as it announces Q4 earnings that beat Wall Street expectations

Clearleap Marries Web TV With EBIF


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February 3, 2010 : 9:05 AM Clearleap and FourthWall Media give EBIF some video chops

Comcast to Acquire New Global Telecom


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February 2, 2010 : MSO looks to amp up its business services growth with purchase of Colorado-based provider of hosted and trunk-based VoIP services

ThePlatform Encroaches on Brightcove's Turf


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February 2, 2010 : Comcast unit revamps its Web TV publishing systems to keep up with the demands of high-end clients, but simplifies it to address the midmarket

G.hn Gets Some Love


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February 1, 2010 : 11:40 AM DirecTV picked MoCA for multiroom DVRs, but it's also testing out G.hn, an emerging challenger

Cable Travels Green Road With 'SEMI'


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February 1, 2010 : SCTE aims to help cable ops shave the energy costs of individual systems by as much as 30 percent with 'Smart Energy Management Initiative'