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 [...]
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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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