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This is the Winter of Our Discontent

By Jeff Finkelstein – Regardless of what your possible future path contains, be it DOCSIS® 4.0 ESD, FDX, or a PON variant (heads-up, keep your eyes on the C-PON initiative, as it looks very interesting), there was something for you with much information to digest.

Doctor, Doctor, It Hurts When I Do This

By Jeff Finkelstein – The only true way to understand how bad our technology addiction has become requires us to put it aside and walk away.

When Life Hands You Bananas, Make a Banana Split

By Jeff Finkelstein – While our customers, companies, employees, us, and our networks are stressed from the effect of isolation, there are learnings we can take away even in these times. I’ll give you my list of top three learnings.

Battle Royale: FDX vs ESD

By Jeff Finkelstein — If you have been in the cable industry for a while, you are used to reading and hearing about new technologies on the horizon. It seems that almost daily we are inundated with the promises of new technology that will solve all our problems.

Complexity is Complex

By Jeff Finkelstein — For the past few months many photons and electrons have nobly given their ever so short life for the singular purpose of informing the industry about DOCSIS 4.0.

There Are No Straight Lines

By Jeff Finkelstein — For those who have been following my column on a regular basis, you may remember a few articles talking about new technologies on the horizon. Just when you think it is safe to get into the technology water, up pops a new technology that confuses things.

No Matter Where You Go, There You Are

By Jeff Finkelstein — In this issue of the Futurist article, I am going to discuss a topic I have covered before but is worth repeating. That topic is why we set a roadmap

Cable’s Future’s So Bright We Gotta Wear Shades

By Jeff Finkelstein — As a “Futurist” and innovator, I spend a lot of my time researching and chatting about past, current, and future technology trends, while trying to figure out where our industry possibly needs.

The Transformation of the Internet

By Jeff Finkelstein — The Internet has become part of the daily lives of millions and millions of users. In fact, most of us would have a difficult time going through our days without it.

Yoga for DOCSIS

By Jeff Finkelstein — I am amazed at how the flexible, yoga-like abilities of DOCSIS allow us to continuously improve it with incremental evolutionary changes that leverage past efforts. Thanks to the continuing work by CableLabs, vendors and operators, the useful life of the cable plant still has a long, long way to go.