Time Warner Cable and Bresnan buy a battery kit designed to extend the life of Motorola IRT-1000 and IRT-2000 receiver/modulators.... FULL STORY »
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NEWS
CMC Signs Buckeye as iTV Beta Site
The Comcast Media Center has announced that Buckeye CableSystem has signed an agreement to serve as a beta... FULL STORY »
SCTE Foundation Summarizes Q2 Grants
The SCTE Foundation approved grants for six individuals during the quarter: · Frank Berry, Comcast... FULL STORY »
STRATEGY
MSO Tech Innovation Top Ops Award: Pragash Pillai, VP, Strategic Engineering, Bresnan Communications
Content is not king — not when it comes to the nitty-gritty competition among cable operators... FULL STORY »
Research DVR penetration now sits at one-quarter of US homes, according to Nielsen , a healthy increase... FULL STORY »
EMERGING TECH
The End: A Look Ahead at Cable Advertising
Our all-star panel discusses the future of cable advertising, and sees a flip side to the promise of viewer engagement.... FULL STORY »
Reality Check: Flavors of PONs
This article describes the different types of passive optical networks (PONs) and what they do. A PON is an... FULL STORY »
ADVANCED SERVICES
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.... FULL STORY »
CBS Corp. Buys CNET
(May 15) An expansion of Web properties for CBS, Comcast acquires Plaxo and more news.... FULL STORY »
Analysts Blew It on Cable, DBS, Telco Forecasts
(May 14) Consumer demand for pay TV and broadband stronger than expected in first quarter, and more news.... FULL STORY »
VENDORS
Harmonic to Deploy in Germany
ASTRA Platform Services GmbH has selected Harmonic's DiviCom Electra 7000 HD encoders and DiviTrackIP... FULL STORY »
Juniper Gets New CEO
Juniper Networks has named Kevin Johnson chief executive officer. Upon his arrival in September, Johnson will... FULL STORY »
Infinera Tabbed for Optical Research Network
The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) has selected Infinera to support its research on the experimental... FULL STORY »
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