Here’s a quick update from Comcast Voices, the Comcast blog, on the upcoming On Demand Online trial. Apparently the MSO has added the Starz network to its roster of on-demand content that will be made available on Fancast and Comcast.net. The premium movie channel will serve up 300 movies online, though all in standard-def to [...]
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It wasn’t long ago that YouTube’s maximum upload size was 10 MB. Then it jumped to 100 MB, followed by 1 GB last fall, followed this week by a new 2 GB ceiling. YouTube’s upload file sizes are increasing to keep pace with the new, cheap HD camcorders on the market. More people are shooting [...]
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There are two notable DOCSIS 3.0 announcements coming out of the ANGA cable show this morning. First, Telia Stofa (part of TeliaSonera) has decided to deploy Motorola EuroDOCSIS 3.0 cable modems. Perhaps not all that interesting in and of itself, but tucked into the release is a note that Infonetics has put a number on [...]
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Jeff Baumgartner takes up the issue today of how cable operators are looking at IP video delivery. Not how they’re dealing with Web video from a business perspective, but literally how they transport bits to the home. Currently, all cable IP traffic routes through a cable modem termination system (CMTS), but several folks are now [...]
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While I was caught up in Cable Show activities, a couple of news announcements of note hit the wire internationally. First, Motorola let drop that the company has deployed Taiwan’s first DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) with Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC). The Asian market has been quite keen on D3 technology. Last year [...]
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I’ve been collecting content from panels, conversations, and demos, but it takes time to turn that raw information into coherent posts. So in the meantime, here’s a selection of photos from the Motorola booth on The Cable Show floor: 3D TV, new DOCSIS 3.0 retail modems, Internet apps on the set-top, and more.
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It always stinks when another site beats you to the punch with company news, but sometimes that’s the way it is. As Karl Bode over at Broadband Reports posted yesterday, Motorola DOCSIS 3.0 modems are now available from Fry’s Electronics. This is the first time DOCSIS 3.0 modems have been available at retail.
If you’ve got [...]
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Multichannel News notes this morning that we’re closing in on the 10th anniversary of the DOCSIS standard. That doesn’t sound terribly exciting, but it’s worth a moment of reflection. We have DOCSIS to thank for the way we access cable Internet today. The standard makes cable equipment (including modems) interoperable, and the continued development of [...]
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Every once in a while I find it useful to do a status check of Internet speed tiers. With that in mind, here’s a look at what major operators across the US are promoting, along with a nod to a few noteworthy international players.
Comcast: Launched DOCSIS 3.0-based “Extreme Tier” last year with 50 Mbps downstream [...]
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Canadian cable operator Shaw announced a few short weeks ago that it would be launching a new 100-Mbps speed tier using DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding. Shortly after that, Motorola claimed the success of its TX32 downstream module for channel bonding with a milestone release counting 1,000 modules sold. Here we are later in the same [...]
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