Back in the cable modem termination system (CMTS) lab a couple of weeks ago I had several colleagues wandering around with video cameras capturing conversations and lab shots throughout the day. Above is a snippet of Kevin Sullivan, senior director of engineering at Motorola, talking about integrated CMTS versus modular CMTS. (Amateur editing done [...]
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The lunchtime speaker at last week’s Policy Symposium was Meredith Baker, acting administrator for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). And although the session didn’t have much to do with the rest of the conference, Ms. Baker was chock full of updates on the federal DTV converter box coupon program. First, the NTIA has [...]
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Even though Comcast has placed money on the Internet side of on-demand video delivery, it’s still banking on the success of traditional VOD. After promising at CES to offer more than 6,000 movies on demand by the end of the year, the operator just this past week announced some impressive stats to date: Seven billion [...]
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While I was off playing in DC, Motorola officially added to its tally of WiMAX deals. Yesterday came news of a trial in Thailand, the first successful mobile WiMAX trial in the country. Today came word of a WiMAX infrastructure contract in Saudi Arabia. LTE may be the media darling of wireless technologies at the [...]
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I spent yesterday at Cynthia Brumfield’s phenomenal, closed-to-the-press Internet Video Policy Symposium. There were quite a few FCC economists present (current and former) and a number of lawyers and academics. Much of what was discussed was outside the scope of this particular blog, but it was all good food for thought, and you will see [...]
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