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Viewers Find DVRs Indispensable

Ethernet Testing—More Standardization Needed

Comcast Delivers at the DNC

Silicon Image Wows Crew at Summer Conference

End Approaching for Set-Top?

Bandwidth Model Finds Good Fit


Survey: Online TV Grows in Popularity

ActiveVideo Hires VP/GM

Camiant Supports NGOD, ISA

SCTE Canadian Summit Slated for February

Blonder Tongue Founder Passes

Harmonic to Show Multi-Screen Video At IBC


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Columns

Editor's Letter: Beyond HDTV?

Broadband: How Fast Is RF?

Bullpen: Dumb Pipe vs. Dumb Monitor

Reality Check: The On-Demand User Interface Dilemma


Features

Back Office, Front Burner

Hot initiatives ranging from content integration to e-commerce to targeted ads call for an open and flexible reference model.
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IPTV: Global, But Not Dominant

But various hangups distinguish actual deployments in such places as Sacramento and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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Service Assurance Metrics

How to use service assurance software to raise service levels while driving cost out of the business.
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PacketCable Security

From BASIC, secure or hybrid flow, to filters at IP router or DOCSIS 1.1 modems to BPI+, there are many options...
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VIDEO OF THE DAY
Why the Digital Television Transition?




Watching the PacketCable Barometer

By Justin J. Junkus

CableLabs' current activities may not be a foolproof indicator of cable's future service offerings, but history indicates that they correlate well with how we got to where we are today.

DOCSIS-compliant plant and customer premises equipment (CPE) implementations preceded high-speed data offerings as a way to meet customer needs for data transport that matched the rapidly increasing processing power of personal computers. Similarly, PacketCable 1.0 through 1.5 found its way into cable networks in anticipation of the carrier-grade residential telephony offerings that have become a staple of cable's marketing mix.

These technology implementations have a common thread. Technology that has gained acceptance has been defined by CableLabs specifications.


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