By The Phantom — I, Phanty, started to say something last time, but ran out of space just as I was getting to the point. Now if I can just remember the point I was trying to make, I’ll continue this month and see if I can make said point.
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By The Phantom — We’ll warn you up front: we ain’t telling you nothin’ this quarter. Well, maybe we’d better explain pronto, before you stop reading.
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By The Phantom — Looks as if a project the industry has been working on for at least eight years, maybe longer, is coming to fruition. That is the idea commonly called remote PHY.
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By The Phantom — When I decided to haunt the cable TV industry, I had to disguise myself as a human student and go back to school to pick up some book-learning on this thing called electronics. When I was there, we had a saying that 50% of what we were learning we would never use, and 50% of what we were going to need, we were not being taught. So why not scrub the half that we didn’t need and replace it with what we did need?
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By The Phantom — Well, heck, everyone else writes about it without knowing what it means, and so shall I. Some of the definitions you see for the IoT (Internet of Thingsfor those of you living under a rock) are pretty wild. Electronic Designtried recently to summarize several serious definitions.
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By The Phantom — Hey, with all the interest in fake news recently, it’s kind of refreshing/alarming to remember that people have been hearing what they want to hear for a long time. And engineers have often been the bearers of bad tidings, who get ignored.
Read MoreBy The Phantom -As this is written I still can’t get my head around all the disasters that have happened recently. What, five major hurricanes in a short period of time, two impacting some of the same areas, earthquakes in Mexico, wildfires in California. And that just brings us up to when we started haunting our old manual typewriter to write this article
Read MoreBy The Phantom – Standards bodies anticipate needs and develop standards, and nobody comes to the party. That’s one of the hazards of standards development. Standards are almost always developed by volunteers from companies who are interested in products based on the standard, and those companies spend a lot of money on top engineers working on the standard
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By The Phantom – So it is in cable TV, our beloved industry. I’d say that the third generation is hard at work now, building on the analog and basic digital transmission of the second generation, developed as I and my cohorts haunted the industry.
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