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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By Jeff Finkelstein — In the beginning there was DOCSIS 1.0 and small integrated CMTSs with or without telco return. And it was good, but not great.
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By Jeff Finkelstein — Like many of my and later generations, I spent time working in a fast food restaurant as a way to make money while in college. Having gone to college at 16 years old my work choices were limited by: the distance to where my dorm was located as I did not have a car and took public transit.
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