Articles

CAPITAL CURRENTS: 1-800-SUICIDE

June 1, 2008 8:05 am | by Jeffrey Krauss, President of Telecommunications and Technology Policy | Comments

On December 12, 2006, the head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, filed an emergency petition at the FCC. It seems that the organization that was using three toll-free phone numbers had fallen behind in paying its phone bills.

Broadband White Paper - Delivering High Quality Video over IP

May 27, 2008 8:00 pm | Comments

For years, network and service monitoring tools have been providing operations engineers with invaluable information for troubleshooting, diagnosis and problem resolution.

CED Show Daily - The Cable Show - 2008

May 18, 2008 8:00 pm | Comments

CED Show Daily - The Cable Show - 2008 - Show Daily coverage directly from the show.

It's the End of Cable As We Know It (And We Feel Fine)

April 30, 2008 8:45 pm | by Brian Santo, CED Editor | Comments

The chief technology officers joining us this year are, in alphabetical order, Chris Bowick of Cox Communications, Marwan Fawaz of Charter Communications, and Tony Werner of Comcast. The article was assembled from live interviews and written comments, and edited a bit for length by CED Editor Brian Santo.

DOCSIS 3.0 arrives

April 30, 2008 8:40 pm | by Mike Robuck, Senior Editor | Comments

In the high-stakes broadband game, DOCSIS 3.0 has been an ace in the hole for the cable industry, and this year that card will be on the table as MSOs start to roll out faster broadband services by using DOCSIS 3.0’s wideband downstream channel bonding.

Someone’s knocking at the door

April 30, 2008 8:35 pm | by Jim Barthold, Contributing Editor | Comments

The cable industry for years has denied it’s a closed society, but the perception among some telco-centric vendors is that what the industry says and what its senior engineers do are two different things. They still think cable is a tough business to crack.

Mobile backhaul grows as business opportunity

April 30, 2008 8:30 pm | by Beau Atwater, Vice President of Strategy & Marketing, Global Solutions, Telcordia | Comments

With the emergence of next-generation mobile services such as Web applications, streaming video, and multimedia communications, mobile operators are attracting increasing volumes of traffic; however, this traffic is not yet well understood. This unpredictability creates considerable operational challenges

INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT - MEXICO & CENTRAL AMERICA

April 30, 2008 8:25 pm | Comments

Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

IN PERSPECTIVE: To the right

April 30, 2008 8:20 pm | by Brian Santo, Editor | Comments

The purpose of CED is to carry on a conversation, about what’s new, what’s going on, who’s doing what, and why they’re doing it.

MEMORY LANE: Fade in

April 30, 2008 8:15 pm | by Stewart Schley, Media & technology writer, Englewood, Colo. | Comments

Steve Ross, used to enjoy hobnobbing with celebrities who appeared in the films and TV shows his company produced. Stories of Ross rubbing shoulders with musicians, actors and producers as they whisked coast to coast aboard Warner’s corporate jet

IN THE LOOP: EAS: Act locally, think regionally

April 30, 2008 8:10 pm | by Thomas G. Robinson, Executive Vice President, CBG Communications Inc. | Comments

As cable communications systems have evolved from solo headends to master headend and hub configurations and then to regional super headends, the concept of the local emergency override seems to have gotten lost in the complexity of it all.

CAPITAL CURRENTS: ‘White spaces’ pose threat to cable

April 30, 2008 8:05 pm | by Jeffrey Krauss, President of Telecommunications and Technology Policy | Comments

For several years now, the FCC has been pursuing the possibility of allowing unlicensed data transceivers on TV frequencies, in the channels that aren’t being used, also known as “white spaces.”