As referenced yesterday, I sat down with a Motorola exec recently to get an update on the femtocell market. One of my big takeaways from the conversation was that the market varies widely from region to region. That shouldn’t be a surprise given the landscape of the mobile industry, but still the differences were far [...]
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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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Last week Comcast introduced a new service called AnyRoom in its New Jersey market designed to let multiple set-tops in a home access the same VOD content. It’s not multi-room DVR, but it’s a good step on the road to cable-based, in-home television networking.
First the basics: Users of the AnyRoom feature can make a selection [...]
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ComScore has new Internet video stats for the month of February. Online video viewing was up 66% over the same time last year, adding up to a monthly total of 10.1 billion videos screened on the Web. Interestingly, both Time Warner sites (excluding AOL) and Comcast’s Fancast portal scored in ComScore’s top-ten list. Fancast was [...]
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I ran across an interesting combination of stats today on next-gen broadband networks. First The New York Times had an article on the new Global Information Technology Report stating that the US has one of the best Internet infrastructures in the world. We now rank fourth globally taking into account a wide range of variables [...]
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Defining a cohort is far from an exact science, but describing generational behavior is still useful for analyzing broad trends. Much has been made, for example, of the buying power of Baby Boomers. And Gen X’ers are often lovingly referred to as the MTV generation. The latest cohort to make waves in [...]
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One of the Motorola news announcements I didn’t cover last week was the introduction of the company’s CDMA femtocell. Femtocells keep getting buzz, and the latest stats out of ABI Research suggest there will be 70 million femtocells in the world by 2012 and roughly 200 people using them. (That’s up from [...]
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Here are some of my favorite shots from the CMTS lab yesterday. (Click thumbnails for a larger view) In order, there’s a photo of fiber nodes, racks upon racks of cable modems, a cable modem close-up, a mess of wires (far worse than my own home entertainment system…) and a BSR 64000 (CMTS) [...]
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It’s one thing to hear about technology in a presentation or a briefing. It’s another thing entirely to talk to engineers in a lab about the work they do every day. Today I spent hours in a Motorola CMTS lab in Massachusetts and came away with photos, video and lots of notes. [...]
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While I’d prefer to be in Paris right now for the FTTH Europe event, I’ll have to settle for being able to access some of the content stateside. Telecommunications magazine has an audiocast from the show with executive editor Sean Buckley interviewing Motorola’s Floyd Wagoner. Among other things, the interview covers RF over [...]
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