Articles

CED Up Front - May 2011

April 30, 2011 8:50 pm | by CED Staff | Comments

Mobile TV made gains at NAB show; Synacor, Akamai team for TV Everywhere demo; Comcast’s 105 wideband tier in front of 40M homes; Insight delivers multi-room DVR service to subs; TWC, Viacom take iPad app feud to court; Dish Network acquiring Blockbuster for $228M; Multichannel universe sees positive video sub growth.

JPEG 2000 Compression Over IP

April 30, 2011 8:45 pm | by Chin Koh, Director of Product Management at Nevion | Comments

Established as an international standard in December 2000, JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard. In the realm of video, its intra-framebased encoding scheme limits losses to a single frame or less.

Universal Service Activation Key to Competing Effectively

April 30, 2011 8:40 pm | by Stephane Bourque, CEO of Incognito Software | Comments

Among all of the strategic challenges competing for network service providers’ attention, nothing is more crucial to success in the day-to-day battle for market supremacy than finding a way to accelerate activation of new services and promotions.

Win the OTT challenge, say goodbye to the pinwheel

April 30, 2011 8:35 pm | by Gary Southwell, CTO of BTI Systems | Comments

Media consumption has shifted violently from broadcast to unicast as consumers embrace a la carte consumption. Media is now consumed on PCs, smartphones and other devices, as well as the traditional TV.

In Perspective - Mind Your Own Business

April 30, 2011 8:30 pm | by Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief | Comments

There’s an old saw about the 19th-century railroad tycoons’ failure to realize the business they were in was not railroads but transportation – much to their sorrow...

Memory Lane - Revolution for Rent

April 30, 2011 8:25 pm | by Stewart Schley, Media & Technology Writer, Denver, Colo. | Comments

Atkinson bought 100 videotapes of pre-recorded movies from Magnetic Video’s Video Club of America, a first-of-its-kind mail-order entertainment distributor, and prepared, knowingly or not, to wreak havoc on the entertainment industry.

Open Mic - CSPs Need to Raise Productivity Flag

April 30, 2011 8:20 pm | by Bahaa Moukadam, CEO at Sunrise Telecom | Comments

Rapid service innovation is enabled by today’s advanced communications networks and fueled by aggressive competition. But while new services are an asset of differentiation, they are also creating an operational expense (opex) explosion that has become a CSP’s most pressing challenge.

Engineering Wise - Standards Operating Procedure

April 30, 2011 8:15 pm | by Thomas Russell, Director of Standards for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers | Comments

Everything from F-connector specifications to DOCSIS has been vetted and agreed to by industry. Imagine the consumer confusion and extra costs associated if each manufacturer or service provider were to use proprietary connectors.

Capital Currents - A Stealth Law for a Stealthy Problem

April 30, 2011 8:10 pm | by Jeffrey Krauss, President of Telecommunications and Technology Policy | Comments

The FCC reports that Caller ID-spoofer NobelBiz Inc., for example, offers a Local Touch service that enables its telemarketing and debt collection clients to place calls from anywhere while transmitting CPNs (calling party numbers) that make it appear to call recipients that they are receiving local calls.

WEB Extras - May 2011

April 30, 2011 8:00 pm | by CED Staff | Comments

Webinars: Premium Content to Any Device & Unleashing the Potential of the Cable Return Path; CED’s daily Broadband Direct; CED Blogs from editors Brian Santo & Mike Robuck.

Who Are You? Authentication in the TV Everywhere Age

February 28, 2011 8:00 pm | by Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief | Comments

There remain impediments to getting premium content on more devices in more places. One of the most important is assuring that the person consuming the content is, in fact, the person entitled to watch it.

Mobile Backhaul: Opportunity Knocks for Cable Operators

February 28, 2011 7:55 pm | by Mike Robuck, Senior Editor | Comments

Last year, the business services divisions of Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable rang up more than $1 billion each in commercial services revenue, with cell backhaul providing significant chunks of those revenues.

Up Front - March 2011

February 28, 2011 7:50 pm | by CED Staff | Comments

Shaw Experiments with A La Carte... Done Deal: Mediacom Goes Private... The Wireless Industry Looks at Smaller Cells... Letter to the Editor... Surveys: Cost of A Megabit Continues to Decrease & Improved Productivity Needed in Industry... Study: Video is the Next Step in Evolution of Mobile.