System of the Year: Comcast Oregon/SW Washington</h1> <article> <h1>System of the Year: Comcast Oregon/SW Washington</h1> <p>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> It’s hard to discount the significance of Project Cavalry, Comcast’s two-year, $1 billion analog reclamation project that began in November 2008. The massive undertaking is a bona fide game changer. In a May 5, 2009 note, Bernstein Research Senior Analyst Craig Moffett called it "the most... </article> <article> <h1>Faster Down, Faster Up: Can’t Have One Without the Other</h1> <p>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> The return path, long the poor cousin to downstream in terms of throughput and spectrum allocation, is beginning to demand its due. Consumer behavior is driving the attention, with the explosion in popularity of video-rich, two-way applications now impacting Internet usage patterns. Service providers are... </article> <article> <h1>Telephony Calls Opportunities: Reinventing Voice</h1> <p>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> Discussions of leading-edge voice technology might include a myriad of topics from session initiation protocol (SIP) to WiMAX vs. LTE, to sophisticated telepresence systems. In October, Comcast announced a new product in the telephony space: cordless phones. Wait, isn’t that more 1980s than 2009... </article> <article> <h1>Bullpen: EdgeQAM Modulators: What, How, Why?</h1> <p>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> Seldom is there a discussion around video, switched digital video (SDV), video-on-demand (VOD) or DOCSIS 3.0 that does not mention the edgeQAM (eQAM) modulator. In the past couple of years, eQAM has rapidly become part of our vocabulary. Yet I frequently hear people ask, "What is an eQAM?" and... </article> <article> <h1>Barbara Jaffe: 2009 Women in Tech</h1> <p>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> In 1980, cable sped into hyper-mode. It was the dawning of the age of premium television. That awakening sparked another cycle of innovation in an industry already known for its entrepreneurial energy. The growth and optimism that followed also spawned a new cohort of industry leaders and attracted a breed... </article> <article> <h1>Business Services: Ethernet Makes Sense</h1> <p>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> Businesses seeking to cut costs while satisfying needs for faster data rates are driving demand for carrier Ethernet. Bolstering the technology are advanced specifications, increasing its appeal among some wireless carriers. But while cell backhaul is a major application, the overall market is more... </article> <article> <h1>CDNs Bridge First and Last Miles: Online video stresses the ‘Middle mile.’</h1> <p>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> Content delivery networks (CDNs) have been around for almost as long as the Internet, but of late they’re on the radar screens of people in multiple industries. The reason is video. The "content" part of the CDN equation now includes rapidly accelerating quantities of quality-sensitive... </article> <article> <h1>Reality Check: What’s Next for GIS?</h1> <p>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> Anyone who undertakes a geographic information project at some point faces this question: "Will I ever be done?" When my team started down our current path some ten years ago, our only real goal was to standardize the data in our plant maps. It only made sense that if the maps were standardized, we... </article> <article> <h1>Broadband: Making MER Better: Part II</h1> <p>Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> Modulation error ratio (MER), as I noted in August’s column, is an important but frequently misunderstood performance metric for the forward and return digital signals carried on our networks. Many cable operators place a fair amount of emphasis on MER — also called SNR or signal-to-noise ratio... </article> <article> <h1>Bullpen: The Big Gun Idea</h1> <p>Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EDT</p> The cable industry’s narrowcast-generated services coupled with strategic implementation of time and frequency division multiplexing (TDM and FDM) has created an unrivaled and sustainable network. Yet this current converged network of voice, video and data is an incoherent mix of TDM and FDM with... </article> </main></body></html>