Broadband: It's a 'Green' Thing</h1> <article> <h1>Broadband: It's a 'Green' Thing</h1> <p>Mon, 1 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> In the business we call cable, it's all too easy to get caught up in our day-to-day jobs with little time to be concerned about just how the things we're doing and the equipment we're using might affect the bigger world around us. Indeed, for a long time, being "green" was something that only... </article> <article> <h1>Bullpen: VOD Operation Followup</h1> <p>Mon, 1 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> The "VOD: Care and Feeding" article in CT's December 2008 issue (available online at http://www.cable360.net/ct/operations/bestpractices/32737.html) generated a lot of interest and followup questions. Several of the most frequent will be answered here. But first, let's review a couple of concepts... </article> <article> <h1>High-Speed Internet Woes</h1> <p>Mon, 1 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> Sometimes 'high-speed' isn't, and the problem can be anywhere between the sub and the Internet itself.... </article> <article> <h1>Broadband: Signal Leakage in an All-Digital Network: The Continuing Story</h1> <p>Fri, 1 May 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> Judging from the feedback to my February column on leakage issues in all-digital networks, this is a topic that's clearly quite important to the industry. One point made by many of those who shared their comments had to do with keeping ingress under control, given what is believed to be the reduced... </article> <article> <h1>QAM Signals on Spectrum Analyzers</h1> <p>Fri, 1 May 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> When viewed on a spectrum analyzer, QAM channel levels often look a lot lower than they actually are. What gives?... </article> <article> <h1>Broadband: Another Look at Upstream 64-QAM</h1> <p>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> My April 2007 column highlighted the efforts of Midcontinent Communications, a Midwestern cable operator, to deploy upstream 64-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) in a half-dozen nodes (www.cable360.net/ct/operations/bestpractices/22839.html). As of late 2008, the company had rolled out 6.4 MHz bandwidth... </article> <article> <h1>Reality Check: Back to the Basics</h1> <p>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> A few years back, I was working for the engineering division of a large Canadian MSO that operated cable systems in both Canada and the United States. One of my duties was performing system technical audits - Canadian BP 23 testing of the Canadian systems and FCC Proof of Performance testing of the U.S... </article> <article> <h1>Broadband: Report Card: Making the HDTV Plunge</h1> <p>Sun, 1 Mar 2009 0:00:00 EST</p> After putting it off for several years, I finally joined the slightly more than one-third of Americans who have already done so, and got a high definition TV (HDTV) set for home use. I had all sorts of excuses for putting this off, among them cost, a 15+ year-old conventional TV set that still works fine, a... </article> <article> <h1>Leakage in an All-Digital World</h1> <p>Sun, 1 Mar 2009 0:00:00 EST</p> Leakage detection gear is analog. All-digital signals are, well, digital. Where and how do the twain meet?... </article> <article> <h1>Broadband: Signal Leakage in an All-Digital Network</h1> <p>Sun, 1 Feb 2009 0:00:00 EST</p> A recent discussion on the SCTE-List about dealing with signal leakage in cable networks that have migrated to all-digital operation sparked a lengthy and very interesting thread of messages. As you know, Part 76 of the FCC Rules is very clear about signal leakage limits, leakage monitoring and measurement... </article> </main></body></html>