Following the Kagan “Getting Personal” conference last week, I had a chance to sit down quickly with Motorola’s Mark DePietro and Ray Bontempi to hear their thoughts. Above is a two-minute video I stitched together from that conversation. Two notes: First, Mark refers to “See-Uh,” which is actually CEA, or the Consumer Electronics Association. Second, [...]
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I missed the roundtable at SCTE yesterday with Motorola, Japanese cable operator JCom and Heavy Reading’s Alan Breznick, but I’m catching up on the presentation notes. JCom debuted its DOCSIS 3.0 service two months ago with a premium speed tier of 160 Mbps. According to the operator, 25% of new Internet subscribers since then have [...]
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Todd Spangler has the scoop this morning that Comcast has announced it will order up to six million digital terminal adapters (DTAs) in 2008 from Motorola, Pace and Thomson. The DTA move suggests Comcast has gotten serious about migrating to all-digital systems in the near term. That certainly jives with what Steve Burke was saying [...]
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The SCTE Cable-Tec Expo officially kicked off this morning with a general session including several high-profile speakers. Since the event is in Comcast’s hometown, both COO Steve Burke and CTO Tony Werner were on hand, as well as top execs from Cox, Charter, HBO, Showtime, Nortel and PBS. Burke laid out some of the changes [...]
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On display in the booth at SCTE was the new GUI for the Motorola Digital Access Controller DAC6000. There are many more automation features in the software upgrade that was announced today and a new interface to go along with the feature updates. More pics from the photo file below.
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