The pre-show flood of news continues, and to help make sense of it all, the Cable Show Blog is back in a return engagement. Most of the blog’s focus at the moment is on CableCares activities, community outreach taking place in New Orleans (yes, Motorola is participating), but we are sure to see coverage in [...]
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Among the gazillions of demos at the Cable Show next week will be one in the Motorola booth for the TV pixel geeks. For those who fondly compare the video outputs of different compression schemes, Motorola will have displays up showing video quality comparisons of MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 videos at various bitrates. The purpose is [...]
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The Certification Wave 58 results are out! Motorola received DOCSIS 3.0 certification for its SB6120 and SBV6220 cable modems and DOCSIS 3.0 bronze qualification for the Motorola BSR 64000 cable modem termination system (CMTS). I had a chance to sit down quickly with Motorola’s Chris Kohler to discuss the modem certifications and recorded [...]
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Wow. From GigaOM and The Wall Street Journal this morning, the Spring/Clearwire WiMAX joint venture is on, and top cable operators are in on the fun. Comcast is adding more than $1 billion to the venture, Time Warner Cable is putting in $550 million and Bright House Networks is committed for $100 million. That doesn’t [...]
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Since the acquisition of Terayon last year, Motorola’s been fairly close-mouthed about its targeted advertising activities, but today, as part of an extended lead-up to the Cable Show, Motorola announced a new version of the CherryPicker Application Platform (CAP-1000). Here’s a little background.
First, several years ago, Terayon introduced the DM6400 CherryPicker product. The DM6400 does [...]
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Likely one of the hottest topics at this year’s Cable Show will be advanced advertising applications, and before the flood of news and analysis starts it would be nice to have some clear terminology as a reference point. Below are some of the key terms as I understand them.
Targeted Advertising: Advertising that is created [...]
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A participant on the NCTA’s switched digital video (SDV) briefing call last week asked why the cable industry isn’t moving more quickly to all-digital broadcast given the bandwidth savings. Verizon’s making the shift, why not traditional cable operators? The answer is that cable companies as a whole have a lot more existing analog customers, and [...]
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The NCTA conducted an interesting form of outreach last week. After apparently reading a number of unflattering and possibly inaccurate reports on switched digital video’s impact on CableCARD retail devices, the association put out the word that it would conduct a conference call briefing for any bloggers and journalists interested in discussing the topic. The [...]
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In a serendipitous moment, I had a call this morning to talk about DOCSIS 3.0 CPE updates, and I learned that J:COM in Japan has completed trials and is starting to install Motorola’s channel-bonding modems in subscriber homes TODAY. The latest status reports from the lab have found no issues with the SB6120 modems, and [...]
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I got fantastic input on femtocells the other day and am still looking for the time to write up everything I learned. As a teaser, I heard that every major operator in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) is currently holding some kind of femtocell trial. North America is not on the same timeline, [...]
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