By Sherita T. Ceasar — From new streaming video opportunities to IoT options and Wi-Fi networking, the way cable leverages its networks to meet customers’ needs is undergoing waves of transformation. In recent years, the pace of evolution from traditional video architectures to more agile IP networks has quickened and shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon.
Read MoreBy Steve Heeb — Why has RDK decided to participate at SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® this year? SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo is now the largest cable telecom event in North America, and it provides a key gathering place for technical decision makers from across our industry. From our perspective, Expo provides us with a unique forum to discuss the global activity driving the RDK community, including CPE manufacturers, SoC vendors, software developers, system integrators, and service providers.
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By Ed Marchetti — In an industry in which metrics define every aspect of network performance, it’s not a leap to apply the same evidence-based approach to the interactions that connect our workforces, our businesses and consumers. As research becomes increasingly sophisticated, we’ve seen greater evidence of the paths that lead from engaged and knowledgeable employees to satisfied customers and company success.
Read MoreBy Steve Heeb – Why has RDK decided to participate at SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® this year? SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo is now the largest cable telecom event in North America, and it provides a key gathering place for technical decision makers from across our industry. From our perspective, Expo provides us with a unique forum to discuss the global activity driving the RDK community, including CPE manufacturers, SoC vendors, software developers, system integrators, and service providers.
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By Kevin Hart — Cox’s Kevin Hart is serving as Program Chair of SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo for the second time this decade. Broadband Library caught up with him for an inside view on what to expect in Atlanta.
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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 Clarke Stevens — A big problem with the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) is the number of standards and proprietary systems. Apple, Google and Amazon each have proprietary approaches. IoT-related standards are available from IEEE, IETF, W3C, ISO/IEC and virtually every other standards body. Even organizations trying to comply with standards are forced to choose between incompatible options.
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By Marty Glapa — We are wirelessly connected nearly all the time via mobile phones, smart devices, PCs, or smart TVs, terminating on technology-specific wireless access nodes. We are also frequently hardwire connected via devices such as phones, TVs or PCs, through various copper, fiber, or coax technologies terminating on technology-specific wireline access network nodes. And, we are often simultaneously using wireless and wireline services.
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By Steve Goeringer — Blockchain is one of today’s most discussed and visible technologies. Some technologists consider blockchain to be the most significant technological innovation since the dawn of the Internet. Many researchers have begun to see blockchain applied to Internet of Things (IoT) security, providing better consumer control and transparency of privacy rights and options, private and public sector voting, and more. And yet, to a significant segment of the population, blockchain remains a mystery. What is it? And how can it apply to the cable industry?
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By Jeff Howe — Cable operators have many options available to augment their existing HFC networks, but no clear path forward. Fortunately, there are several potential evolutionary paths — standalone or in combination — that can be tailored to specific applications.
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