The home automation industry has followed a long and tortuous road, but a number of new products on the market and planned broadband services suggest we may have turned a corner. Word came out today that Verizon has a smart-home trial planned for next month, and a broader commercial launch scheduled for some time in [...]
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Continuing on yesterday’s theme, here are some of my favorite posts from the second half of 2010. July: New Multi-Room DVR: Pause Live TV, Record Anywhere – covering a multi-room DVR deployment with Cincinnati Bell including features not available in larger operator environments August: VOD Economics: Are We There Yet? – on collapsing release windows and [...]
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As we wind up 2010, I’ve gathered a list of some of my favorite posts from the year. Some were popular. Others weren’t. But I like this list because it covers a range of topics that were important in 2010 – from 3D, to VOD, to IP, to home networking. Here are my selections for [...]
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If you read CableLabs’ most recent modem certification report (and really, why wouldn’t you?) you’ll notice that more and more of the hardware certified is IPv6-compliant. In fact, in the last two cert waves, all of the modems certified are listed as supporting the newer protocol. Depending on which reports you read, we’re on a [...]
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If you’ve been following along at home to news of the Motorola Medios offering, here’s something for the file. In a recent presentation with Heavy Reading, Motorola offered up a new architecture diagram for the Medios suite of software and services. Note that the structure has not changed from the diagram made public in May, [...]
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