By Ron Hranac – The days of designing, building, and operating service provider networks in silos has finally sunset. Make way for converged IP networks where the “network” is truly an end-to-end solution integrated and automated for networking, security, and compute.
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By The Phantom – Don’t believe me about the polarization thing? Hold a pair of polarized sunglasses backwards over one eye and rotate them 90 degrees while watching an LCD screen.
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By The Phantom — The company found that productivity in many cases went up, not down as many bosses had feared. Employees learned the joy of working in PJs.
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By The Phantom — Fast forward a century, we are in a pandemic, a divisive political season, and are dealing with a rapidly-changing technology landscape brought about by a technology for interconnecting computers, televisions, and other appliances not imagined earlier in our lifetimes.
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By The Phantom — HFC technology as knocking twisted pair off the hill, but you’d be making a fatal mistake if you thought that we can stay on the hill forever
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By The Phantom — So, we keep hearing all this stuff about artificial intelligence (AI). Here we are, talking about artificial intelligence, and we haven’t gotten the real thing figured out yet.
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By The Phantom — So, smart cities are all the rage today, huh? Now just what does that mean? I didn’t think cities were animate objects that could have a characteristic like “smart.”
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By The Phantom — There was an event of significance to our beloved industry that occurred last summer, the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing of Apollo 11. Heck, we weren’t even haunting the cable TV industry back then.
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By Mark Dzuban — With our 50th anniversary behind us and a wonderland of new opportunities ahead, is there a better mantra for — dare I say it? — our next 50 years?
Read MoreBy Ron Hranac — The earliest cable networks were one-way — that is, signals could be transmitted only from the cable operator’s headend to the subscriber. Those one-way networks worked well for delivering primarily video services. When two-way technology was developed to support interactive services.
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