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Motorola Set-Tops for the New U-verse Whole-Home DVR Service

It’s official. U-verse subscribers are reporting that AT&T has started to roll out its whole-home DVR service. Since Motorola is involved, I thought this would be a good time to walk through the hardware and AT&T’s approach to in-home DVR networking. Motorola supplies two set-top models to AT&T for U-verse, the VIP1200, an HD IP [...]

Comcast to Introduce Bandwidth Cap on October 1st

Broadband Reports broke the news this morning that Comcast is implementing a 250GB monthly bandwidth cap starting October 1st. While as a consumer I’d love to stay cap-free, in all fairness to Comcast, 250 gigabytes is a pretty high ceiling, well above the range that most people need or could even hope to use right [...]

Getting to IPv6

Ars Technica has posted some useful coverage in the last couple of weeks on IPv4 and IPv6. The gist of the news is that we’re running pretty darn low on IPv4 addresses, and IPv6 traffic on the Web is minimal at best. I freely admit I don’t know all the ins and outs here, but [...]

The Making of a Demo Room

Motorola is recreating its customer demo room in the Horsham PA complex outside Philadelphia, and I’ve landed some photos of the construction work to date. Current plans for the room include a number of new live demos and even flexible space for temporary demos and “back-room” (i.e. non-public) showings. When complete it will house a [...]

CDMA Still Delivers, and Push-to-Talk is Revived

Despite the fact that my wireless coverage on this blog has been entirely dedicated to WiMAX and LTE, there are other wireless technologies that deserve attention as well. Motorola launched its next generation push-to-talk (PTT) solution for CDMA networks today, and I had a chance to sit down with Motorola’s Jacqueline Majka, Senior Product Marketing [...]