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Canada Stirs Wireless Pot

SCTE's President Search

Broadband Video Growth

Multi-Wavelength Standard?

MediaHawks, BlackArrow, Personal Apps

Bendable Fiber Twists and Turns into Tight Spots


CMC Signs Buckeye as iTV Beta Site

SCTE Foundation Summarizes Q2 Grants

Report: European Ops Consider VOD as a Competitive Differentiator

Report: 17 Countries to Surpass 60 Percent Broadband Penetration by 2012

Harmonic to Deploy in Germany

Juniper Gets New CEO



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Columns

Editor's Letter: Congrats, Time Warner

Broadband: Finding Spectrum for Channel Bonding

Bullpen: DTV Transition: 8-VSB + QAM = Win/Win

Reality Check: Flavors of PONs


Features

System of the Year: TWC Carolina

"No man is an island." - John Donne (1572-1631)
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Advanced Advertising Progression

Localized digital ad insertion is only the beginning.
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Converge Services, Grow Revenue

The ability to blend communications and content within the customer premises can help build customer loyalty, drive digital-tier uptake and increase ARPU.
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Case Study: SIP Business Voice

It's not just the big MSOs that want to get into the SMB voice market. Though the hurdles are many, small and medium-sized operators can play in this space, too.
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Watching the PacketCable Barometer

By Justin J. Junkus

CableLabs' current activities may not be a foolproof indicator of cable's future service offerings, but history indicates that they correlate well with how we got to where we are today.

DOCSIS-compliant plant and customer premises equipment (CPE) implementations preceded high-speed data offerings as a way to meet customer needs for data transport that matched the rapidly increasing processing power of personal computers. Similarly, PacketCable 1.0 through 1.5 found its way into cable networks in anticipation of the carrier-grade residential telephony offerings that have become a staple of cable's marketing mix.

These technology implementations have a common thread. Technology that has gained acceptance has been defined by CableLabs specifications.


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