| Top Stories - September 25, 2014 | Liberty Global CEO: RDK 'A DOCSIS Moment' For Cable
Liberty Global faces different competitive pressures in Europe and other parts of the world than some of its U.S. MSO peers, but the need to achieve scale across the board is critical for the entire cable industry, Mike Fries, Liberty Global's president and CEO, said during Wednesday's opening general session at the 2014 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo. More»
Energy2020: A Great Big Call to Arms
The cable industry is aligning to massively improve its energy footprint by the year 2020, industry stalwarts said at a standing room-only afternoon session on Wednesday at the 2014 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo. More»
Balan Nair To Chair 2015 SCTE Cable Tec-Expo
Balan Nair, the executive vice president and chief technology officer of Liberty Global, has been tapped to serve as the program committee chairman for the 2015 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, set to run from October 13-16 in New Orleans. More»
Greg Babinski Wins 2014 Cable-Tec Games
Greg Babinski, a system technician with Bright House Networks in New Port Richey, Fla., outpaced a field of 30 competitors here to take down the 2014 SCTE International Cable-Tec Games title. More»
The Softer Side of Mike LaJoie
There was no talk of OFDM, or DOCSIS 3.1, or WiFi, or any of the hard-core tech fare that typically characterizes an SCTE Cable-Tec Expo general session, when Time Warner Cable chief technology officer Mike LaJoie sat down Wednesday with his friend and former colleague Yvette Kanouff, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Service Provider group. More»
Keeping an Eye Fixed on the Future
If you can imagine a world without on-demand services, cable telephony, or broadband, then you can imagine what it was like when a group of cable television professionals convened in 1969 with a straightforward objective — improve the delivery of cable television in the present and in the future to create an environment for engineers to collaborate and learn. More»
You Say You Want a Revolution?
Disruption and change are historically not high on the cable industry's to-do list, but those are two things Gainspeed is offering as the startup pitches a "virtualized" form of the Converged Cable Access Platform that, it promises, will help operators boost capacities, simplify their networks, and drive down costs. More»
The 'Internet of Things' Is Becoming a Huge Thing
The "Internet of Things" — a catch-all term for taking connectivity beyond PCs and mobile devices to include items ranging from Web-enabled home monitoring gear to wearables — is starting to become a big thing, and a trend that is poised to benefit the cable industry in many ways. More»
Cable Faces Uncertain Path to IP Multicast
For cable operators, Internet-protocol video is a mixed blessing. Delivering content via IP to the home is definitely the trend, and a direction that all content distributors are working towards as video is consumed on a variety of screen types. More»
RDK Breaks Away From The Set-Top Box
The Reference Design Kit (RDK), a preintegrated software stack originally developed for video set-tops and client devices, is making progress on a new front that will add DOCSIS -powered modems and all-service gateways to the product mix. More»
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