The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 30, 2008 : Dish fires back at TiVo, Comcast.net hackers speak... and a handful of other items that caught our attention as the week draws to a close
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 30, 2008 : Following some Wideband tests last year, the MSO is shoring up for a big showdown with Verizon in the Big Apple using the speedy Docsis 3.0 platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 30, 2008 : VOD vendor reshuffles operating division as it beats the street in Q1, buoyed by additional backoffice software deployments with two big customers – Comcast and Cox
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 29, 2008 : Spectrum assets, roaming capabilities, and a wholesale deal all helped Comcast's CEO decide to invest in the new Clearwire
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 29, 2008 : Hackers messed with the MSO's Network Solutions account, but there's no evidence that customer information or data was lost or compromised
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 29, 2008 : DVR patents are 'hardly of national significance,' so Dish's suit has little chance to get heard by the Supreme Court, a TiVo exec says
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 28, 2008 : MSO looking to tighten up its clusters by selling off more than 40 systems serving about 400,000 subs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 27, 2008 : Sony and six major US MSOs sign a memo involving tru2way that could result in TVs that get cable services with no need for a set-top
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) May 27, 2008 : A big telco, not a cable operator, becomes the first to launch a subset of Starz's Internet VOD service. Verizon is marketing Starz Play to broadband subs for $5.99 month
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 23, 2008 : Comcast has outlined its concept for a 'protocol agnostic' platform, and (surprise!) the vendors appear ready and willing to lend a helping hand
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 23, 2008 : MSO has not set a rollout plan, but based on Cisco's large-scale production plans for MoCA-powered set-tops, don't expect a whole bunch of whole-home DVR activity to hit until next year
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 22, 2008 : In an exclusive video interview, Comcast CTO and EVP Tony Werner offers some conceptual details about the MSO's upcoming bandwidth capacity management system
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 22, 2008 : How much is Arris's gear deal with Comcast worth this year? One analyst takes a stab at it
NCTA News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 21, 2008 : The digital terminal adapter (DTA) isn't the only digital-to-analog subscriber-side box Cisco is developing
NCTA News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 21, 2008 : Mother ship looks to score a hefty dividend in the long-awaited deal that's likely to close late in the year
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 20, 2008 : Visual evidence that Digeo once again has a viable set-top product for the cable industry
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) May 20, 2008 : Cisco, Motorola, and Thomson are all showing off simple digital terminal adapters here at the show, but Pace Micro, perhaps surprisingly, is not
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 19, 2008 : And the MSO is already putting Docsis 3.0 to the test in at least two more markets, by the way
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 19, 2008 : A 'spate' of official details about cable's big advanced ad project (including some that haven't leaked out already) are less than a month away
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 19, 2008 : Comcast and Time Warner Cable outline deployment plans for the industry's much ballyhooed 'open' digital video platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 19, 2008 : Panasonic is jumping into the tru2way market with both feet, but the company realizes there are big challenges ahead as it attempts to develop a retail play for interactive cable boxes and TVs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 18, 2008 : MSO comes out on the losing end of its protracted fight for a waiver on low-end set-tops with integrated security, but Comcast's forthcoming Digital Terminal Adapter may be its saving grace
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 17, 2008 : Cable's big gig is just about to kick off in The Big Easy. Here's a handful of things we'll be focused on as we try to penetrate the noise
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 16, 2008 : Cable is trotting out its 'open' platform at The Cable Show, but a new Light Reading Insider report says you shouldn't expect to see retail shelves flush with tru2way devices this holiday season
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 15, 2008 : Study from German research firm that culled data from multiple countries suggests that broadband ISPs other than Comcast may be throttling peer-to-peer applications
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 15, 2008 : Study says MSOs signed on more high-speed subs in Q1 than the telcos for the first time since, well, a very long time ago…
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 15, 2008 : Comcast and Plaxo confirm earlier rumored deal, set plans in motion to integrate social-networking technology into a wider range of services and devices
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 14, 2008 : The Comcast Media Center and a raft of partners say a new centralized service will ensure that smaller cable operators aren't left off the interactive TV and tru2way train
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 14, 2008 : 'Operator-agnostic' spinoff says the Docsis-powered SlingModem is just the first product it is developing for the cable industry. Future gear may incorporate CableCARD slots and the tru2way platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 13, 2008 : Claims new refinements will reduce costs for OEM partners that are lining up to build digital-to-analog gateways based on the TeraPIX chipset
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 13, 2008 : As part of a larger set-top guide unification program, Cox will roll out a new user interface from NDS on high-end set-tops powered by tru2way as well as boxes that use the 'OnRamp' interim platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 12, 2008 : MSO is less committal about its wireless and mobile service plans than it is about Docsis 3.0 and its broadening rollout of switched digital video and hi-def VOD
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 12, 2008 : VOD supplier sparks upgrades that allow operators to restart shows already in progress and enable users to more easily sift through on-demand menus and share and make recommendations with others
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 9, 2008 : Calling attention to a handful of other cable-related things that happened this week...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 9, 2008 : CableLabs awards first-ever Docsis 3.0 certifications to six modems, while Casa Systems becomes the first CMTS vendor to win 'full' qualification for the super-speedy specification
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 9, 2008 : Following its first deployment in Chicago, cable operator RCN says Boston is next in line for an all-digital strategy it calls 'Project Analog Crush'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 8, 2008 : No WiMax for Cablevision, at least not yet. MSO is embarking on a two-year plan to deploy a WiFi-powered wireless canopy over of its entire footprint, and offer service free to existing cable modem subs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 7, 2008 : It's 'just a matter of time' before Mediacom, already a Sprint partner for hardwired VOIP services, gets involved in new wireless venture
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 7, 2008 : Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks are throwing millions into the new Clearwire venture and rekindling the cable industry's longer-term wireless broadband strategy
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 7, 2008 : Report says MSO is considering a 250 gigabyte monthly consumption cap as part of a 'protocol agnostic' bandwidth management effort
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 6, 2008 : WSJ says big Sprint-Clearwire-cable WiMax deal is going down tomorrow morning... for real this time
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 6, 2008 : With added support from AT&T and Verizon, a new DCIA-led initiative replaces the P2P Bill of Rights that Comcast and Pando had started
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) May 6, 2008 : The CE giant isn't releasing product details yet, but the new CableLabs agreement aims to speed the approval process for interactive TVs and set-tops tagged for retail distribution
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 5, 2008 : Three MSOs argue that DTV transition relief for small systems should not be given on the basis of bandwidth levels alone...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 5, 2008 : Emergence of new 'FUM' application could foreshadow a move away from all-you-can-eat consumption models and toward bandwidth 'quotas,' byte caps, and other bandwidth management policies
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 2, 2008 : BigBand posts better than expected revenues and an expanding cable deployment base, but cuts back staff as part of effort to become a 'pure play' digital video company
LR Cable Opinion - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 2, 2008 : Irdeto is trying to break into the US cable market again. Does Comcast's Digital Terminal Adapter offer the encryption specialist a ray of hope?
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 2, 2008 : Have you heard the news? They've adapted the Iron Man trailer into a full-length movie!
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 1, 2008 : Basic sub losses dulled some of the shine in the quarter, but MSO buffed it up as consumers fled DSL to sign up for the operator's Docsis-based Internet services
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) May 1, 2008 : Comcast sheds some light on a simple one-way Digital Terminal Adapter (DTA), which the MSO will use to fuel an aggressive 'all-digital' strategy, as was first reported by Cable Digital News
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 30, 2008 : Dish fires back at TiVo, Comcast.net hackers speak... and a handful of other items that caught our attention as the week draws to a close
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 30, 2008 : Following some Wideband tests last year, the MSO is shoring up for a big showdown with Verizon in the Big Apple using the speedy Docsis 3.0 platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 30, 2008 : VOD vendor reshuffles operating division as it beats the street in Q1, buoyed by additional backoffice software deployments with two big customers – Comcast and Cox
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 29, 2008 : Spectrum assets, roaming capabilities, and a wholesale deal all helped Comcast's CEO decide to invest in the new Clearwire
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 29, 2008 : Hackers messed with the MSO's Network Solutions account, but there's no evidence that customer information or data was lost or compromised
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 29, 2008 : DVR patents are 'hardly of national significance,' so Dish's suit has little chance to get heard by the Supreme Court, a TiVo exec says
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 28, 2008 : MSO looking to tighten up its clusters by selling off more than 40 systems serving about 400,000 subs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 27, 2008 : Sony and six major US MSOs sign a memo involving tru2way that could result in TVs that get cable services with no need for a set-top
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) May 27, 2008 : A big telco, not a cable operator, becomes the first to launch a subset of Starz's Internet VOD service. Verizon is marketing Starz Play to broadband subs for $5.99 month
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 23, 2008 : Comcast has outlined its concept for a 'protocol agnostic' platform, and (surprise!) the vendors appear ready and willing to lend a helping hand
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 23, 2008 : MSO has not set a rollout plan, but based on Cisco's large-scale production plans for MoCA-powered set-tops, don't expect a whole bunch of whole-home DVR activity to hit until next year
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 22, 2008 : In an exclusive video interview, Comcast CTO and EVP Tony Werner offers some conceptual details about the MSO's upcoming bandwidth capacity management system
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 22, 2008 : How much is Arris's gear deal with Comcast worth this year? One analyst takes a stab at it
NCTA News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 21, 2008 : The digital terminal adapter (DTA) isn't the only digital-to-analog subscriber-side box Cisco is developing
NCTA News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 21, 2008 : Mother ship looks to score a hefty dividend in the long-awaited deal that's likely to close late in the year
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 20, 2008 : Visual evidence that Digeo once again has a viable set-top product for the cable industry
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) May 20, 2008 : Cisco, Motorola, and Thomson are all showing off simple digital terminal adapters here at the show, but Pace Micro, perhaps surprisingly, is not
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 19, 2008 : And the MSO is already putting Docsis 3.0 to the test in at least two more markets, by the way
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 19, 2008 : A 'spate' of official details about cable's big advanced ad project (including some that haven't leaked out already) are less than a month away
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 19, 2008 : Comcast and Time Warner Cable outline deployment plans for the industry's much ballyhooed 'open' digital video platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 19, 2008 : Panasonic is jumping into the tru2way market with both feet, but the company realizes there are big challenges ahead as it attempts to develop a retail play for interactive cable boxes and TVs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 18, 2008 : MSO comes out on the losing end of its protracted fight for a waiver on low-end set-tops with integrated security, but Comcast's forthcoming Digital Terminal Adapter may be its saving grace
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 17, 2008 : Cable's big gig is just about to kick off in The Big Easy. Here's a handful of things we'll be focused on as we try to penetrate the noise
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 16, 2008 : Cable is trotting out its 'open' platform at The Cable Show, but a new Light Reading Insider report says you shouldn't expect to see retail shelves flush with tru2way devices this holiday season
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 15, 2008 : Study from German research firm that culled data from multiple countries suggests that broadband ISPs other than Comcast may be throttling peer-to-peer applications
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 15, 2008 : Study says MSOs signed on more high-speed subs in Q1 than the telcos for the first time since, well, a very long time ago…
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 15, 2008 : Comcast and Plaxo confirm earlier rumored deal, set plans in motion to integrate social-networking technology into a wider range of services and devices
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 14, 2008 : The Comcast Media Center and a raft of partners say a new centralized service will ensure that smaller cable operators aren't left off the interactive TV and tru2way train
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 14, 2008 : 'Operator-agnostic' spinoff says the Docsis-powered SlingModem is just the first product it is developing for the cable industry. Future gear may incorporate CableCARD slots and the tru2way platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 13, 2008 : Claims new refinements will reduce costs for OEM partners that are lining up to build digital-to-analog gateways based on the TeraPIX chipset
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 13, 2008 : As part of a larger set-top guide unification program, Cox will roll out a new user interface from NDS on high-end set-tops powered by tru2way as well as boxes that use the 'OnRamp' interim platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 12, 2008 : MSO is less committal about its wireless and mobile service plans than it is about Docsis 3.0 and its broadening rollout of switched digital video and hi-def VOD
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 12, 2008 : VOD supplier sparks upgrades that allow operators to restart shows already in progress and enable users to more easily sift through on-demand menus and share and make recommendations with others
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 9, 2008 : Calling attention to a handful of other cable-related things that happened this week...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 9, 2008 : CableLabs awards first-ever Docsis 3.0 certifications to six modems, while Casa Systems becomes the first CMTS vendor to win 'full' qualification for the super-speedy specification
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 9, 2008 : Following its first deployment in Chicago, cable operator RCN says Boston is next in line for an all-digital strategy it calls 'Project Analog Crush'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 8, 2008 : No WiMax for Cablevision, at least not yet. MSO is embarking on a two-year plan to deploy a WiFi-powered wireless canopy over of its entire footprint, and offer service free to existing cable modem subs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 7, 2008 : It's 'just a matter of time' before Mediacom, already a Sprint partner for hardwired VOIP services, gets involved in new wireless venture
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 7, 2008 : Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks are throwing millions into the new Clearwire venture and rekindling the cable industry's longer-term wireless broadband strategy
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 7, 2008 : Report says MSO is considering a 250 gigabyte monthly consumption cap as part of a 'protocol agnostic' bandwidth management effort
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 6, 2008 : WSJ says big Sprint-Clearwire-cable WiMax deal is going down tomorrow morning... for real this time
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 6, 2008 : With added support from AT&T and Verizon, a new DCIA-led initiative replaces the P2P Bill of Rights that Comcast and Pando had started
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) May 6, 2008 : The CE giant isn't releasing product details yet, but the new CableLabs agreement aims to speed the approval process for interactive TVs and set-tops tagged for retail distribution
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 5, 2008 : Three MSOs argue that DTV transition relief for small systems should not be given on the basis of bandwidth levels alone...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 5, 2008 : Emergence of new 'FUM' application could foreshadow a move away from all-you-can-eat consumption models and toward bandwidth 'quotas,' byte caps, and other bandwidth management policies
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 2, 2008 : BigBand posts better than expected revenues and an expanding cable deployment base, but cuts back staff as part of effort to become a 'pure play' digital video company
LR Cable Opinion - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 2, 2008 : Irdeto is trying to break into the US cable market again. Does Comcast's Digital Terminal Adapter offer the encryption specialist a ray of hope?
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 2, 2008 : Have you heard the news? They've adapted the Iron Man trailer into a full-length movie!
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment May 1, 2008 : Basic sub losses dulled some of the shine in the quarter, but MSO buffed it up as consumers fled DSL to sign up for the operator's Docsis-based Internet services
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) May 1, 2008 : Comcast sheds some light on a simple one-way Digital Terminal Adapter (DTA), which the MSO will use to fuel an aggressive 'all-digital' strategy, as was first reported by Cable Digital News
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