While I’d prefer to be in Paris right now for the FTTH Europe event, I’ll have to settle for being able to access some of the content stateside. Telecommunications magazine has an audiocast from the show with executive editor Sean Buckley interviewing Motorola’s Floyd Wagoner. Among other things, the interview covers RF over [...]
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Cynthia Brumfield picked up a story this morning on a field study AT&T did showing cable subscribers’ Internet speeds averaging well below the promised six to eight Mbps throughput. According to AT&T executive John Stankey, in a test of 150 residential homes, average cable Internet speeds ranged between 300 and 400 kbps. [...]
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The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council Europe event officially kicks off tomorrow, and to drum up excitement, the Council has leaked early information from a report showing that there are now more than one million FTTH subscribers throughout Europe. The growth rate was 30% from 2006 to 2007.
Of course compared to growth rates in North America [...]
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There was a lot of press coverage last week around HD set-top shortages at Cox and Verizon, and a lot of the blame seemed to fall squarely on Motorola’s shoulders. Naturally, I’m a bit peeved.
Here’s a little perspective and context. First, HD demand skyrocketed in the last few months, and that’s a good [...]
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Info and pics continue to trickle in from the Mobile World Congress festivities. Check out some of the gorgeous photos after the jump showing Motorola’s LTE demos. There’s a great comparison shot of LTE video versus fixed broadband (much clearer than the shot I posted last week), and a photo that shows Motorola’s [...]
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It’s official. Motorola’s DOCSIS 3.0 modems are out – one data modem and two digital voice modems. They support downstream channel bonding, IPv4 and IPv6, and advanced encryption services, which in plain English basically means faster Internet that’s good for consumer and commercial services. If you want to play the speeds and [...]
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Plenty of people are covering the death of HD DVD so I thought I’d take a different tack here. Listening to NPR last night I heard a story that played tape from an old, old interview with a Sony executive on Betamax. Yes, Beta tapes died a sad death much like the HD [...]
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Favorite links from a holiday weekend of reading:
Broadband Reports – $2 billion from Intel may bring national WiMAX network
Light Reading – Comcast aiming to implement SDV in 15% of network this year
EngadgetHD – Latest research confirms it – DVRs increase TV consumption
Ars Technica – Retail sales staff don’t know much about the DTV transition
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This is my official, one-year-until-the-digital-TV transition post. Consider it part primer, part Motorola perspective.
Why are we having a digital TV transition?
The original impetus behind moving to all-digital television was a regulatory push to reclaim broadcast channels for public/civic use. However, with the rapid growth of HDTV, on-demand television and streaming video on the [...]
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This was just too much fun not to post. See video from Barcelona below for WiMAX on a Segway. (Thanks, Michael!)
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