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 [...]
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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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Internally at Motorola there’s been a lot of discussion around the uptick in cable interest in passive optical networks (PON). There’s plenty of life left in HFC networks, but there are places where fiber-to-the-home, and specifically gigabit PON rollouts make sense. Compton Cable, based in Canada, is deploying GPON to address the commercial services market. [...]
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It’s been a long day of sessions at Paul Kagan’s “Getting Personal” conference on interactive TV and targeted advertising. Here are three key messages I heard on how to move iTV and advanced advertising to the next level.
Operators need an effective management system, including a management interface, for both their content assets and their interactive [...]
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Motorola has a European study due out this week on consumer mindsets around femtocell service. With results from an online survey of 1,800 consumers across six European countries, the final report from the study tracks some obvious and some surprising conclusions. For example, more than three quarters of respondents had never heard of femtocells, which [...]
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I’m not the only one blogging for Motorola. Mark Hickson is over in Amsterdam at the WiMAX event this week and reports back that WiMAX deployments around the world have now reached “over 300 in 118 countries.”
Also of interest, the focus at the show seems to be almost entirely WiMAX E, i.e. mobile WiMAX. [...]
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A couple of savvy folks picked up on my near-throw-away reference earlier this month to the idea of using switched digital video as a tool for transitioning to MPEG-4. The basic concept is that operators could selectively broadcast MPEG-4 programming by offering it on a switched video tier. This would give them the ability to [...]
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