SCTE Canadian Summit</h1> <article> <h1>SCTE Canadian Summit</h1> <p>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 0:00:00 EST</p> Who the heck goes to Canada in February? The SCTE, apparently. The Society's Canadian Summit is scheduled for Feb. 3-4 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Ontario. Asked about the event's timing, SCTE VP of Marketing and Business Development Deb Swann simply replied, "The Canadian Summit program committee... </article> <article> <h1>CES Wrapup: The View from Vegas</h1> <p>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 0:00:00 EST</p> Company execs at last week's 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were anxious to make it clear they know that 21st century digital consumers want content anywhere on any device. For starters, just prior to the opening of CES, Cisco's big guns unveiled the company's consumer strategy... </article> <article> <h1>How to Harden CA and Become Less Insecure</h1> <p>Tue, 6 Jan 2009 0:00:00 EST</p> With confidence in conditional access (CA) technology on the wane after publicized exposures of satellite TV smart cards, one vendor is touting an approach that promises to protect existing CA. The technology could even revive the cable industry's stalled efforts to craft a common downloadable CA system... </article> <article> <h1>Fiber Gets Real Character</h1> <p>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</p> There's a fiber-optic star hanging over the industry at year's end. The task of characterizing this promising light requires not wisdom (or wise men) but technical competence and sharp instruments. The promise of optical transport builds upon five years of international growth. While the Dell'Oro Group has... </article> <article> <h1>Cox Realigns Leadership</h1> <p>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</p> A week ago, Cox Communications announced the appointment of Leo Brennan to chief operations officer, effective Jan 1. Additional personnel news then emerged, including the planned retirement of Cox SVP and CTO Chris Bowick. As reported last Thursday by our colleagues at CableFAX Daily, Cox President Pat... </article> <article> <h1>Online Video Viewership Explodes</h1> <p>Tue, 9 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</p> Cable viewers are watching large amounts of online video, even twice as much as video on demand (VOD), according to a recent survey. "Video views exploded across the industry," writes Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform and SVP, content publishing, for Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) in an end of year... </article> <article> <h1>Rogers Communications Founder Remembered</h1> <p>Tue, 2 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST</p> The Board of Directors of Rogers Communications has announced the death of company founder, Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers. He was 75. "We wish to express our deepest sympathy to Loretta and all of the Rogers family for this loss," said Alan Horn, Rogers chairman and acting CEO, in a... </article> <article> <h1>Leakage Revisited</h1> <p>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST</p> Twenty-five years ago, with regulators and the cable industry struggling to agree on an acceptable use of the aeronautical band, signal leakage was a very hot topic. The rules that emerged from those days turned leakage into what editors call an "evergreen" topic - suitable for discussion in any of... </article> <article> <h1>CEA Gears Up for Vegas Show</h1> <p>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST</p> Despite the downturn in the economy, the Consumer Electronics Association says pre-registration is "very strong" for the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which will take place in Las Vegas, Jan. 8-11. There will be more than 2,700 exhibitors covering 1.7 million square feet of... </article> <article> <h1>Suddenlink Mixes, Matches VOD Components</h1> <p>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST</p> Suddenlink Communications launched VOD service last month in 23 of its markets in southwestern Texas. The deployment combines VOD components from two different vendors and is arrayed in a centralized architecture. "This fundamentally came about as a function of an RFP process," said Gregg... </article> </main></body></html>