Peter Grant has an article in today’s Wall Street Journal offering a short primer on OCAP. It’s very readable, so if you’re looking for an overview on the subject, check it out. More importantly though, the WSJ story brought up a debate on OCAP with other industry friends. Some folks wonder whether OCAP will ever [...]
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The Wall Street Journal had a Valentine’s Day article last week on the latest boom in network spending. A little “We Heart You” to the network equipment providers of the world. What was interesting was the distinction the reporter made between what networking gear is selling today versus what brought in the moola in the [...]
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Photo courtesy of yablo’s Flickr photostream. Network providers quite naturally have considerable control over an end-user’s experience. Whether it’s the number of dropped calls from your wireless carrier, or the available speed from your broadband provider, the network you subscribe to can significantly impact the things you’re able to do. Taking that premise as a [...]
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Earlier this week Time Warner announced it was ending a trial that allowed subscribers to watch cable television on their PCs. Aside the from the question of why you’d want to watch TV on your PC rather than your… um… TV, the test brought up an interesting technical dilemma. Time Warner converted its content to [...]
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There continues to be much confusion around CableCARDs and the ability to support two-way communication between a set-top and a cable headend. Maybe I’ve missed it, but it seems no one has put together the fact that the latest CableCARDs have to be two-way given the fast-approaching 7/07 deadline. Put simply, there is no way [...]
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