Jeff Finkelstein Archives

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.

Full-Band Capture Takes the Stage

By Jeff Finkelstein — For anyone who has been in cable a long time, for some of us a very long time, we remember how challenging it was to troubleshoot plant impairments in the headend and field. Not just in finding and correcting, but in dealing with the equipment we used in the day.

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.

No Matter Where You Go, There You Are…

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.

Would You Like Fries With That?

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.

E = MC2 (Energy = Milk * Coffee2)

By Jeff Finkelstein – The first step major step towards modularity in DOCSIS networks came in the form of M-CMTS. The modular CMTS decomposed the PHY from the MAC by using edge-QAM modulators to provide the physical layer.

Art and Innovation

By Jeff Finkelstein – In my last article, I discussed briefly the concept of corporate anti-bodies that try to shut down attempts to advance technology which may solve problems that do not exist yet. If we relied solely on those individuals to make the decisions, it is unlikely things would have moved at the incredible rate of change we have seen in many industries, including ours

It’s all about Spectrum

By Jeff Finkelstein – Cable technologies across a diverse range of business fields where technology plays a significant part. While I would not label it strictly a technology-based problem, it is the basis of how many companies enhance their product sets by using new and advanced technologies to drive improvements to customer experience