Media Experiences 2 Go

John Burke heads up Motorola’s digital video solutions business and has his own take on what’s coming next in the video biz. I had a chance to sit down with him just before the holidays, and here is some of what we discussed. Happy New Year!
Table Stakes in 2008
I asked John what offerings [...]

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Don’t get used to OpenCable. The name, that is. While I’m still stuck on calling the standard OCAP, Mike Robuck at CED reports that the name is likely to change again. With a possible launch at CES, CableLabs appears poised to introduce Tru2way as the new moniker for the Open Cable Application [...]

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Last week’s conversation with Geoff Roman was good for more than the requisite prognostications that fill up blogs and news stories this time of year. The discussion also included the most succinct overview of Motorola’s acquisition strategy that I’ve heard yet. I’m referring specifically to the acquisitions made in the last 24 months [...]

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This is one of those news items that may get overlooked, but shouldn’t. Motorola announced two new customers in Korea today (press release did not go over the US wire) who are deploying channel-bonding technology for delivering broadband speeds to subscribers of 100Mbps. Both the cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) and the cable [...]

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As I mentioned last week, there are changes ahead for this blog including more commentary from Motorola executives and experts on a variety of topics. To kick off these executive visits I sat down recently with Geoff Roman, a Motorola corporate vice president, to hear his thoughts on 2007, 2008 and beyond.

Geoff [...]

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Several things have put Internet video in the limelight this year, and the latest is most assuredly the writers’ strike. According to a survey by the Wi-Fi Alliance and Kelton Research, 50% of TV viewers are either going online more often for entertainment since the strike or plan to do so. And why [...]

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Motorola put out a milestone press release today wrapping up the year in WiMAX. Easy to overlook, except as I scanned the text, I realized that even I didn’t know half the milestones listed in the release. For example, how many active WiMAX trials would you guess Motorola currently has going on around [...]

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There’s a post over on Cox’s Digital Straight Talk blog about cable services (specifically Cox’s services) being promoted and sold through Wal-Mart. Cable operators have had a retail presence for years now, as evidenced by the cable modems packaged with service deals available on store shelves. However, the presence hasn’t been high-profile.
I’m guessing [...]

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If you visit this site regularly you’ll notice that the look and name have changed. (Kind of hard to make a subtle transition…) As of right now, you can still access this site via the connectedhome2go.com URL (RSS feeds still work too), but you can also access it from mediaexperiences2go.com.
We’ve changed [...]

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Motorola today announced that it has shipped 50 million cable modems of both the data and digital voice variety.
It’s hard to ignore a milestone like 50 million modems shipped. Most consumers don’t even think about the little boxes that connect them to the Internet, but their sheer invisibility is testament to how [...]

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