Multichannel News Show Tech Report: Day 02

Top Stories - April 30, 2014 Cable Show: Comcast Going Big With WiFi   Using a mix of quasi-public hotspots deployed in outdoor locations, businesses and on customer-side DOCSIS gateways, Comcast said its WiFi network will span 8 million hotspots by the end of the year. More»   Cable Unveils 'Gigasphere' Brand   DOCSIS, the acronym long tied to cable's broadband platform, isn't going away, but it's going to be pushed far into the background as far as consumers are concerned as operators prepare to deploy a next-generation version that promises to pump out multi-gigabit speeds. More»   Cable Show: MSOs Prepared To Enter Gigabit Era   In a wide-ranging discussion at The Cable Show on Tuesday, a handful of the cable's top tech and engineering execs said technologies such as DOCSIS 3.1 position them well to offer Gigabit-level broadband services as they increasingly find themselves matched up with competitors such as Google Fiber and AT&T and the potential expansion of the telco's fiber-based "U-verse with GigaPower" platform. More»       Cable Show: Fries: Netflix Exposed 'Functionality Gap'   Cable industry execs here generally dismissed that the rise of Netflix exposed a failure of the cable industry, but one acknowledged that the streaming giant has at least taught the industry a valuable lesson. More»    Cable Show: Cablevision Ups Interactive TV Ad Platform Cablevision Systems is making notable improvements to its interactive advertising capabilities with the deployment of ActiveVideo's new CloudTV AdCast platform later this year. More»     Cable Show: Enhancing Customer Experience Requires Balance "Understanding how consumers use the device is one of our biggest challenges," Alix Cotrell acknowledged during the Cable Show panel session "Breakthroughs in Content Navigation and Customer Experience" here Tuesday. More»   Pace Tightens Ties To The RD   U.K.-based set-top maker Pace said its "Elements" middleware platform is now fully compliant with the Reference Design Kit (RDK), the preintegrated software stack for IP-capable gateways and set-tops that's being managed by Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Liberty Global. More»   Cable Show: This Technology Takes New Ad 'Trajectory'   This Technology, a company that specializes in advanced ad systems and "alternative content" delivery, has issued the 2.1 version of Trajectory, its dynamic ad insertion platform, and has moved ahead with a company rebranding effort. More»   Cable Show: Technicolor Demoes High Frame Rate 4K During the Cable Show in Los Angeles, Technicolor is showing off what the company is billing as the "world's first `high-frame-rate.'" More»

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