Unbeknownst to many people (myself included, until recently), there’s an organization called the North American Network Operators’ Group, or NANOG, that meets two or three times a year to discuss core networking technologies and operations practices. Last week Comcast hosted its first NANOG meeting in Philadelphia, and while I couldn’t attend, the presentations from that [...]
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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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Home networks are growing increasingly complicated. In my own household we have set-tops, several PCs/netbooks, and an Internet-connected stereo system. Generally our network runs pretty smoothly, but the occasional hiccup leads to a reboot of the router, modem, one of the many CE devices, or some combination of all of the above. Not too mention [...]
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A while back I journeyed up to Verizon HQ with Motorolan Evan Groat to talk about FiOS TV and the underlying Motorola hardware platform. We met up with Verizon’s Steven Haire and blogger/tweeter extraordinaire John Czwartacki, and, for several hours, not only talked, but shot video of some of the best [...]
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It was extremely useful to be connected to the Motorola WiMAX network at tonight’s Smart Home event, but unfortunately, since no one’s popularized wireless power yet, my on-site blogging/tweeting was still limited. Here’s a short video after the fact. It’s 45 seconds of Motorola’s Dan Moloney welcoming folks to the event [...]
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As much as we tend to focus on the big operators deploying broadband, there are a whole host of smaller entities offering broadband services in pockets of the US. And many of these smaller providers are building out the highest capacity networks.
Hot off the presses at the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Conference and Expo, Hotwire [...]
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Motorola has taken femtocell innovation to the next level with a new CDMA femtocell prototype which integrates a CDMA femtocell with a digital touchscreen picture frame and VOIP soft phone to enhance end-user experience and improve overall radio performance. This form factor allows a consumer to deploy a femtocell in a central location [...]
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When people think about security and IP traffic, they typically think about digital rights management (DRM), and all the attendant connotations that come with it. However, there are really two different types of security to consider: DRM that secures the content itself, and network security, which secures the transport of IP packets.
In the second category, [...]
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Reporters, analysts and amateur commentators far and wide are starting to prognosticate on how NBC will fare with its Olympics coverage. Unlike four years ago, online video viewing is more than a niche pastime, and NBC Universal has to balance its primetime broadcasts with content distribution on the Web. I see three major issues at [...]
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After interviewing Chris Kohler about the modems that passed CableLabs Cert Wave 58, it seemed only fair to talk with Motorola’s Mike Cookish as well about the bronze DOCSIS 3.0 qualification of Motorola’s cable modem termination system (CMTS). The interview is about 16 minutes long and fairly technical, so for those of you not interested [...]
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