I put out feelers all last week about Verizon’s hope for a last-minute waiver before the July 1st CableCARD deadline… and came back empty-handed. But late yesterday the FCC made its long-awaited announcement: Verizon has been granted its waiver request and can continue shipping set-tops with integrated security.
It’s been interesting to [...]
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Continuing with the week’s OCAP and CableCARD coverage, there are two events worth mentioning. Monday the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) ran an OCAP dog-and-pony show for the FCC. Not much new appears to have been announced, but a Broadcasting and Cable article mentions some of the OCAP features shown including video [...]
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Michael Vizard over at eWeek inspired me with his “10 Things They Believe in Silicon Valley but Nowhere Else.” Please note that the list below is my attempt at humor and does not in any way indicate the real opinions of Motorola, cable companies, industry reporters, or anyone else I’ve offended.
10 Things Only Industry [...]
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Somehow I missed the news yesterday that Intel has signed a licensing agreement with CableLabs to support the Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP). What does this mean? Well, it means that CE companies and CableLabs are slowly resolving the issue of how to make two-way cable services available on CE devices.The July 1st [...]
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I’ve decided not to fight the inevitable CableCARD coverage rush leading up to next week’s July 1st deadline, and instead contribute to the melee.
But I’ll start the week with something nice and non-controversial.
Here’s a good list of the “host” set-tops (set-tops that support CableCARD) in Motorola’s product line:
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If you’re not going all Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), you still have quite a few options for wringing more bandwidth out of your broadband network. I’m starting a tally of techniques. What have I missed?
Switched Digital Video – Video streams are only switched on when requested by a subscriber.
Channel Bonding – Part of [...]
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Since green electronics are all the rage, I had to post this quick note on the new Climate Counts Company Scorecard. Motorola scored at the upper end the spectrum in the electronics category – 60 out of a possible score of 100. To put that number in context, Apple scored a 2. [...]
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Ed Zander presented one of the keynote speeches at NXTcomm yesterday and expounded on a theme that is literally ubiquitous at the moment: video everywhere. Where has this theme appeared recently? There’s a certain phone I won’t name coming out on June 29th that will allow access to YouTube. Verizon announced its [...]
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Verizon used the NXTcomm event today to announce the one millionth FiOS customer. And, to add a human touch (albeit a cheesy one), Verizon has embedded a video on its policy blog showing the family that put FiOS over that one-million milestone. (For those who don’t live in the area, that’s a [...]
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There are a couple more Motorola announcements out of NXTcomm today: North American availability of Motorola’s IP DSLAM portfolio and the launch of Motorola’s GPON solution. More details to come, but note that the GPON solution is the one Verizon will be deploying in its FiOS network. Motorola has a relatively long history [...]
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