LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 31, 2007 : Company cuts 30 employees in Q2 after deciding to decouple its VOD hardware and software elements
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 30, 2007 : The sudden departure of OpenTV president and CEO Alan Guggenheim follows a recent exodus by key execs at the middleware and apps firm
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 30, 2007 : Comcast will pony up some development dough to port TiVo apps to Scientific Atlanta set-tops. Meanwhile, Comcast is close to deploying TiVo in New England, and TiVo execs hope the Cox rollout kicks off by year's end
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 30, 2007 : Folks in Saudi Arabia are paying $571.82 per month for every 100 Kbit/s they can squeeze out of their connections
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 29, 2007 : Although DirecTV's DVR-powered 'on-demand' service is a different animal than two-way cable VOD offerings, it could blur consumer perception about the content category, analysts say
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 28, 2007 : The business services arm of Cablevision is tapping its metro Ethernet-based grid to expand into the lucrative world of high-end video transport services
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 28, 2007 : Cable is pitching the OpenCable Platform as the two-way 'Plug & Play' answer, while the CEA wants a non-OpenCable approach called DCR+
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 28, 2007 : BigBand is not bugging out of the modem termination system sector but refocusing efforts on a faster Docsis 3.0-based platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 27, 2007 : Addressing a key TiVo complaint, the cable industry's proposed 'Tuner Resolver' will enable two-way switched digital video services to run on inherently one-way digital TVs and set-tops
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 27, 2007 : A new line of Sony-made, VAIO-branded 'computer entertainment centers' comes equipped with CableCARD slots. The consumer electronics giant is offering both standard-def and high-def models
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 24, 2007 : BigBand's digital video strategy remains solid, but its cable modem termination system business faces a less certain future after staff cuts
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 24, 2007 : The cable and consumer electronics industries find common ground with CableLabs' approval of DTCP-IP, which will protect video and other digital content as it traverses IP-based home networks
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 23, 2007 : Along the bandwidth-boosting timeline, look for MSOs to make a move to switched digital video well before a jump to 1 GHz, says C-COR Chairman and CEO David Woodle
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 23, 2007 : Cable and VOD gear and software specialist C-COR posted fiscal fourth-quarter net sales of $74.4 million, up from $59.6 million a year ago, but its stock took a hit in early trading Thursday
Startup Spotlight - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 23, 2007 : Docsis 'wideband' super-downstream receivers and digital-to-analog 'headend on a chip'
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2007 : Here's a glance at who's deploying switched digital video, where it's being deployed, and with whom
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2007 : Cox's switched digital video strategy is going to bat in Northern Virginia, while Phoenix and Orange County are on deck. The SDV deployment marks BigBand's third with a major cable MSO
LR Cable Opinion - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2007 : When it comes to competition among cable operators, telcos, and direct broadcast satellite, high-definition quality is becoming increasingly important
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 21, 2007 : A more centralized platform from Tandberg Television is allowing some smaller Time Warner Cable systems to launch video-on-demand. Fourteen such markets are expected to launch VOD using the new configuration by year's end
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 20, 2007 : Cable operators and Google are still question marks in the FCC auction for 700 MHz spectrum, which is now set to kick off Jan. 16
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 17, 2007 : Insight Communications is still noodling over 'strategic options,' including a sale, company officials said on the Q2 earnings call
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 17, 2007 : Rollouts to Cox and Time Warner, and the promise of new services, helped Concurrent boost its VOD revenues in Q4
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 17, 2007 : It's a good thing most set-tops are going out the door with the CableCARD pre-inserted
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5) August 16, 2007 : Zaki and Shlomo Rakib, the brothers who founded Terayon, have quietly resurfaced to head up a video processing upstart called Novafora
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 16, 2007 : Speculation about the operator's future runs rampant after Paul Allen's regulatory filing said he may seek alternatives, including a sale
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 15, 2007 : After building wireless and satellite broadband alliances, DirecTV is adding broadband-over-powerline to its technology repertoire
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 14, 2007 : Only two products – eMTAs from Motorola and Hitron – came through Wave 53 with a certification stamp from CableLabs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 14, 2007 : The US broadband market hasn't reached saturation levels just because net subs plummeted for so many operators in Q2, according to one analyst report
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 13, 2007 : News: Microsoft claims the FCC tested a defective 'White Spaces' prototype. Views: Is anyone surprised?
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 13, 2007 : The pair are the first, but apparently not the only, vendors to successfully demonstrate interoperable Docsis 3.0 upstream channel bonding at CableLabs. Casa Systems, a CMTS startup, is said to have achieved this as well
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (13) August 13, 2007 : Following groundwork laid at Cox and StarHub, bandwidth expansion specialist says it has scored lab trials with Comcast and Charter
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 13, 2007 : In the wake of a recent layoff, the bandwidth expansion specialist trimmed year-over-year losses and reported deployment progress with operators like Cox
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 13, 2007 : UK-based set-top maker Pace planted its flag on the Americas in 1999, but only now is that strategy starting to bear fruit and dent the Motorola/Scientific Atlanta duopoly
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 10, 2007 : Symmetricom, a company that specializes in timing gear, is having trouble predicting when cable operators will migrate to modular cable modem termination systems, but related revenues are starting to trickle in
LR Cable Opinion - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 9, 2007 : Based on FCC findings, cable may be justified in its concerns over devices designed to use vacant spectrum to deliver broadband services in cities and rural areas
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 9, 2007 : Execs are trying to say the right things, but it's apparent that stress is building on the girders holding up the Sprint-cable Pivot joint venture
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 8, 2007 : A new report analyzes how deeply Verizon FiOS is cutting video incumbents in Massachusetts
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 8, 2007 : Cablevision, on a path toward privatization, reported an in-line quarter but pared its 2007 guidance, citing a 'competitive environment'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 8, 2007 : Mediacom thinks it can continue shooting down the telco competition for some time yet before it needs an upgrade to cable's Docsis 3.0 channel-bonded big guns
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 7, 2007 : A video-over-Docsis demo from Harmonic was the top vote-getter at the CableLabs 'Innovation Showcase'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 7, 2007 : Despite a small revenue uptick, Mediacom recorded a second-quarter loss of $6.6 million. The MSO also lost 18,000 basics subs in the traditionally weak period
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 7, 2007 : The MSO has pushed the anticipated rollout of OpenTV middleware on legacy, pre-OpenCable Platform Motorola digital set-top boxes to sometime in 2008
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 6, 2007 : About 3,500 Cox field techs are staying connected to the mother ship and boosting productivity using a roaming platform developed by NetMotion
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5) August 6, 2007 : Based on current deployment activity, CommScope appears to be ahead of the pack with an FTTP platform for cable operators that addresses greenfields and low-density areas
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 3, 2007 : BigBand's share price slumped more than 20% in after-hours trading Thursday following news of second-quarter financials that fell way short of analyst expectations
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (8) August 2, 2007 : A 45 percent surge in revenues helped the digital video specialist swing to a profit in the second quarter
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 2, 2007 : Broadband-powered TV devices are proliferating, but will consumers be savvy enough to know what they've got, let alone tap in to it?
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2007 : Time Warner Cable confirmed it will be among the bidders for the balance of Insight Communications, whose systems offer a strategic fit for the nation's second-largest MSO
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2007 : Sprint withdraws from a spectrum bidding consortium with major MSOs, but insists the move has no bearing on the 'Pivot' joint venture with cable operators
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2007 : Company claims small- and mid-sized cable ops can enjoy the riches of local ad insertion without breaking the bank on equipment costs and soaking up internal resources
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 31, 2007 : Company cuts 30 employees in Q2 after deciding to decouple its VOD hardware and software elements
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 30, 2007 : The sudden departure of OpenTV president and CEO Alan Guggenheim follows a recent exodus by key execs at the middleware and apps firm
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 30, 2007 : Comcast will pony up some development dough to port TiVo apps to Scientific Atlanta set-tops. Meanwhile, Comcast is close to deploying TiVo in New England, and TiVo execs hope the Cox rollout kicks off by year's end
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 30, 2007 : Folks in Saudi Arabia are paying $571.82 per month for every 100 Kbit/s they can squeeze out of their connections
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 29, 2007 : Although DirecTV's DVR-powered 'on-demand' service is a different animal than two-way cable VOD offerings, it could blur consumer perception about the content category, analysts say
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 28, 2007 : The business services arm of Cablevision is tapping its metro Ethernet-based grid to expand into the lucrative world of high-end video transport services
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 28, 2007 : Cable is pitching the OpenCable Platform as the two-way 'Plug & Play' answer, while the CEA wants a non-OpenCable approach called DCR+
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 28, 2007 : BigBand is not bugging out of the modem termination system sector but refocusing efforts on a faster Docsis 3.0-based platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 27, 2007 : Addressing a key TiVo complaint, the cable industry's proposed 'Tuner Resolver' will enable two-way switched digital video services to run on inherently one-way digital TVs and set-tops
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 27, 2007 : A new line of Sony-made, VAIO-branded 'computer entertainment centers' comes equipped with CableCARD slots. The consumer electronics giant is offering both standard-def and high-def models
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 24, 2007 : BigBand's digital video strategy remains solid, but its cable modem termination system business faces a less certain future after staff cuts
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 24, 2007 : The cable and consumer electronics industries find common ground with CableLabs' approval of DTCP-IP, which will protect video and other digital content as it traverses IP-based home networks
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 23, 2007 : Along the bandwidth-boosting timeline, look for MSOs to make a move to switched digital video well before a jump to 1 GHz, says C-COR Chairman and CEO David Woodle
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 23, 2007 : Cable and VOD gear and software specialist C-COR posted fiscal fourth-quarter net sales of $74.4 million, up from $59.6 million a year ago, but its stock took a hit in early trading Thursday
Startup Spotlight - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 23, 2007 : Docsis 'wideband' super-downstream receivers and digital-to-analog 'headend on a chip'
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2007 : Here's a glance at who's deploying switched digital video, where it's being deployed, and with whom
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2007 : Cox's switched digital video strategy is going to bat in Northern Virginia, while Phoenix and Orange County are on deck. The SDV deployment marks BigBand's third with a major cable MSO
LR Cable Opinion - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2007 : When it comes to competition among cable operators, telcos, and direct broadcast satellite, high-definition quality is becoming increasingly important
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 21, 2007 : A more centralized platform from Tandberg Television is allowing some smaller Time Warner Cable systems to launch video-on-demand. Fourteen such markets are expected to launch VOD using the new configuration by year's end
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 20, 2007 : Cable operators and Google are still question marks in the FCC auction for 700 MHz spectrum, which is now set to kick off Jan. 16
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 17, 2007 : Insight Communications is still noodling over 'strategic options,' including a sale, company officials said on the Q2 earnings call
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 17, 2007 : Rollouts to Cox and Time Warner, and the promise of new services, helped Concurrent boost its VOD revenues in Q4
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 17, 2007 : It's a good thing most set-tops are going out the door with the CableCARD pre-inserted
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5) August 16, 2007 : Zaki and Shlomo Rakib, the brothers who founded Terayon, have quietly resurfaced to head up a video processing upstart called Novafora
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 16, 2007 : Speculation about the operator's future runs rampant after Paul Allen's regulatory filing said he may seek alternatives, including a sale
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 15, 2007 : After building wireless and satellite broadband alliances, DirecTV is adding broadband-over-powerline to its technology repertoire
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 14, 2007 : Only two products – eMTAs from Motorola and Hitron – came through Wave 53 with a certification stamp from CableLabs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 14, 2007 : The US broadband market hasn't reached saturation levels just because net subs plummeted for so many operators in Q2, according to one analyst report
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 13, 2007 : News: Microsoft claims the FCC tested a defective 'White Spaces' prototype. Views: Is anyone surprised?
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 13, 2007 : The pair are the first, but apparently not the only, vendors to successfully demonstrate interoperable Docsis 3.0 upstream channel bonding at CableLabs. Casa Systems, a CMTS startup, is said to have achieved this as well
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (13) August 13, 2007 : Following groundwork laid at Cox and StarHub, bandwidth expansion specialist says it has scored lab trials with Comcast and Charter
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 13, 2007 : In the wake of a recent layoff, the bandwidth expansion specialist trimmed year-over-year losses and reported deployment progress with operators like Cox
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 13, 2007 : UK-based set-top maker Pace planted its flag on the Americas in 1999, but only now is that strategy starting to bear fruit and dent the Motorola/Scientific Atlanta duopoly
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 10, 2007 : Symmetricom, a company that specializes in timing gear, is having trouble predicting when cable operators will migrate to modular cable modem termination systems, but related revenues are starting to trickle in
LR Cable Opinion - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 9, 2007 : Based on FCC findings, cable may be justified in its concerns over devices designed to use vacant spectrum to deliver broadband services in cities and rural areas
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 9, 2007 : Execs are trying to say the right things, but it's apparent that stress is building on the girders holding up the Sprint-cable Pivot joint venture
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 8, 2007 : A new report analyzes how deeply Verizon FiOS is cutting video incumbents in Massachusetts
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 8, 2007 : Cablevision, on a path toward privatization, reported an in-line quarter but pared its 2007 guidance, citing a 'competitive environment'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 8, 2007 : Mediacom thinks it can continue shooting down the telco competition for some time yet before it needs an upgrade to cable's Docsis 3.0 channel-bonded big guns
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 7, 2007 : A video-over-Docsis demo from Harmonic was the top vote-getter at the CableLabs 'Innovation Showcase'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 7, 2007 : Despite a small revenue uptick, Mediacom recorded a second-quarter loss of $6.6 million. The MSO also lost 18,000 basics subs in the traditionally weak period
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 7, 2007 : The MSO has pushed the anticipated rollout of OpenTV middleware on legacy, pre-OpenCable Platform Motorola digital set-top boxes to sometime in 2008
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 6, 2007 : About 3,500 Cox field techs are staying connected to the mother ship and boosting productivity using a roaming platform developed by NetMotion
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5) August 6, 2007 : Based on current deployment activity, CommScope appears to be ahead of the pack with an FTTP platform for cable operators that addresses greenfields and low-density areas
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 3, 2007 : BigBand's share price slumped more than 20% in after-hours trading Thursday following news of second-quarter financials that fell way short of analyst expectations
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (8) August 2, 2007 : A 45 percent surge in revenues helped the digital video specialist swing to a profit in the second quarter
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 2, 2007 : Broadband-powered TV devices are proliferating, but will consumers be savvy enough to know what they've got, let alone tap in to it?
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2007 : Time Warner Cable confirmed it will be among the bidders for the balance of Insight Communications, whose systems offer a strategic fit for the nation's second-largest MSO
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2007 : Sprint withdraws from a spectrum bidding consortium with major MSOs, but insists the move has no bearing on the 'Pivot' joint venture with cable operators
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2007 : Company claims small- and mid-sized cable ops can enjoy the riches of local ad insertion without breaking the bank on equipment costs and soaking up internal resources
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