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The Fundamentals of Network Business Intelligence
May 31, 2011 8:45 pm | by Dave Caputo, Co-Founder and CEO of Sandvine | CommentsInternet penetration is reaching a saturation point in mature markets, especially in fixed access networks, so service providers cannot depend primarily on new subscribers as a source of revenue growth.
The Evolution of Residential Gateways
May 31, 2011 8:40 pm | by Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief | Comments“A residential gateway is a home networking device used to enable the consumption of any content, on any device, in any place, at any time.”
In Perspective - The Value Divide
May 31, 2011 8:35 pm | by Brian Santo, Editor-in-Chief | CommentsThe potential problem is creating yet another digital divide, this one between “high-value” and “low-value” customers.
Memory Lane - Walk This Way
May 31, 2011 8:30 pm | by Stewart Schley Media & technology writer, Denver, Colo. | CommentsIt didn’t hurt that a Japanese executive named Akio Morita happened to have a fondness for opera, a habit of flying across the Pacific on business trips and the control of a multi-billion-dollar global consumer electronics company called Sony.
Ciciora's Corner - Digital Dementia
May 31, 2011 8:25 pm | by Walt S. Ciciora, Expert On Cable and Consumer Electronics Issues | CommentsIt is no longer possible to drink and watch TV. You have to be sober to be able to use the remotes!
Open Mic - Cable Leads the Way On IPv6 Transition
May 31, 2011 8:20 pm | by William Check, Senior Vice President of Science & Technology, and Chief Technology Officer at the NCTA | CommentsWhat is the IPv6 transition? The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) – the coordinating body that manages the worldwide distribution of IP addresses – announced earlier this year that it had run out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses.
Engineering Wise - The Road to Expo and Beyond
May 31, 2011 8:15 pm | by Mark Dzuban, President and CEO of SCTE | CommentsEven though we’re five months from the hubbub of a week of Expo-related activity, there’s a distinctive feeling that the technology community is starting to coalesce around the event.
Capital Currents - Good Luck to a New Mobile Phone Competitor
May 31, 2011 8:10 pm | by Jeffrey Krauss President of Telecommunications and Technology Policy | CommentsWhat do you think about starting up a new mobile phone company to compete with AT&T and Verizon? Starting from scratch?
WEB Extras - June 2011
May 31, 2011 8:00 pm | CommentsWebinars: Cashing in with connection-oriented Ethernet – June 29! & Premium content to any device: It's all about protection! - Daily News & Blogs - CED’s Facebook page.
Spanning the Globe: CED’s 2011 CTO Roundtable
April 30, 2011 8:55 pm | by Mike Robuck, Senior Editor | Comments...The real trick is serving all of the subscribers’ current whims while also planning for future network needs. Not to worry though: CED’s roundtable of chief technology officers has the answers.
CED Up Front - May 2011
April 30, 2011 8:50 pm | by CED Staff | CommentsMobile 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 | CommentsEstablished 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 | CommentsAmong 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 | CommentsMedia 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 | CommentsThere’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...
