Adelphia Picks EGT, C-COR for Digital Help

Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

February 14, 2006

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Adelphia Picks EGT, C-COR for Digital Help

Although it will likely be carved up between Comcast and Time Warner Cable soon, Adelphia Communications keeps rolling along with its plans for the future as if it will stay intact and independent. In the latest move announced earlier today, Adelphia chose EGT Inc. to supply the MPEG-2 digital video encoders for its planned rollout of digital simulcast service. EGT said it will be the MSO's "primary encoder vendor" for the simulcast deployments. The EGT deal comes just a day after C-COR announced that Adelphia has expanded its deployment of the vendor's digital program insertion (DPI) equipment to another major market. Adelphia is now using C-COR's equipment in Cleveland. C-COR also announced a new DPI installation with Charter Communications in St. Louis, as well as new or planned deployments with Comcast Spotlight in six major markets -- Boston, Denver, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco and St. Paul, MN. With these latest pacts, C-COR boasts that its DPI gear is now deployed in more than 80% of all existing digital cable advertising markets.

About the Author(s)

Alan Breznick

Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading

Alan Breznick is a business editor and research analyst who has tracked the cable, broadband and video markets like an over-bred bloodhound for more than 20 years.

As a senior analyst at Light Reading's research arm, Heavy Reading, for six years, Alan authored numerous reports, columns, white papers and case studies, moderated dozens of webinars, and organized and hosted more than 15 -- count 'em --regional conferences on cable, broadband and IPTV technology topics. And all this while maintaining a summer job as an ostrich wrangler.

Before that, he was the founding editor of Light Reading Cable, transforming a monthly newsletter into a daily website. Prior to joining Light Reading, Alan was a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence.

He is based in the Toronto area, though is New York born and bred. Just ask, and he will take you on a power-walking tour of Manhattan, pointing out the tourist hotspots and the places that make up his personal timeline: The bench where he smoked his first pipe; the alley where he won his first fist fight. That kind of thing.

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