Motorola has another WiMAX market launch coming up on July 21st in Las Vegas. That’s the day Clearwire officially unveils service in the third city on its rollout list. Las Vegas follows Atlanta and Portland, both of which are also powered by Motorola. Clearwire uses the Motorola WAP 400 and WAP 450 access points and [...]
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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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I’ve talked before about fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) as a real-estate perk, but a new study shows that high-speed broadband really is an important selling point among home buyers. Bearing in mind that the study was commissioned by the Fiber to the Home Council and announced in a press release by Verizon, the report concludes that buyers [...]
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If you’ve always wondered how your set-top accesses firmware updates, or if you’re a cable operator looking for a more efficient way to do code downloads, this is the post for you. Motorola’s Vic Melis recently explained how to use an offline loader to do bulk code downloads (think guide updates), and I’ve posted his [...]
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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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Online video content frequently gets lumped together as one big on-demand offering. After all, that is the value the Web brings. You go out and search for the content you want, and the Internet serves it up. However, there’s an interesting increase in “appointment TV” on the Web as well. For most big, live events, [...]
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The broadcast transition to digital television that finally takes place today in the US has some interesting incidental implications. If you’ve gotten through the transition itself okay, there are a few things to watch for in the aftermath. First is the dumping of old secondary TVs that have taken up space in kitchens and basements [...]
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There are a few themes becoming apparent during today’s On Demand Summit in Philadelphia, and one is the need to improve on-demand infrastructure. People agree that demands on VOD networks have changed, as has the competitive landscape for video delivery. From a purely technical standpoint, this means the networks must evolve with greater ingest and [...]
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Analyst Paul Kapustka of Sidecut Reports shared his latest research brief over the weekend detailing recent US WiMAX news and offering analysis of the Clearwire network rollout to date. The brief is part of a new series of Clearwire “Need to Know” (NTK) reports that the analyst firm is peddling quarterly at the ridiculously low [...]
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Despite certain lagging indicators in the cable industry, RFOG seems likely to get a boost in 2009 as operators spend money building out their commercial services offerings. The RF-over-Glass technology falls in the sweet spot between “cost-effective” (cheap now) and “revenue generating” (FTTP enables future higher-tier services), and is getting more attention of late. While [...]
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