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NCTA: Carriage, access, rate regulations should go
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Data from 2010 just adds to the growing body of evidence that the multichannel video marketplace is increasingly competitive and that any regulations adopted when it was otherwise — as in the
1992 Cable Act — now need to be shown the door, as it were. That is according to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's supplementary filing in the Federal Communication Commission's video competition report, which says the FCC should tell Congress that the 1992 Act regulations, are no longer necessary to protect consumers or jump-start competition. It also argues that the remaining basic-tier rate regulation should go the way of the rest of the rate regulations, which
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Expo Awards nominations due next Monday
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Annually, SCTE recognizes, honors and celebrates individuals and organizations that are setting the pace for the society and industry. We look forward to you
joining us Nov. 15 at the Annual Awards Luncheon during SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
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Voting open for Regional Representative Election 2011
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The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has announced its Regional Representative Election 2011. Voting opened June 1 and concludes Friday, July 29, at 5 p.m. Eastern time. Five Regional Representative positions are up for election this year. The candidates nominated to serve their respective SCTE Regions are as follows.
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Spectrum incentive auctions proposal clears Senate committee
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Wireless carriers and TV broadcasters — and by association the cable industry — were tuned in when the Senate Commerce Committee released its marked up version of a bill that authorizes incentive auctions of broadcast spectrum. While the bill, which passed 21-4, allocates a valuable block of airwaves to public safety agencies and funds a nationwide network for first responders, the telecom community was more interested
in its implications for broadcasters, mobile carriers and, in the end, cable operators because it encourages broadcasters to relinquish "unused" spectrum for wireless auctions. While the broadcasters would reap financial rewards from the auctions, there has been mixed reaction about participating.
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The price is wrong, ACA tells FCC about programming, retransmission
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American Cable Association members — generally small independent cable operators — "pay disproportionately higher prices for video content" because TV stations and national cable networks
"routinely abuse their market power," ACA President and CEO Matthew M. Polka said in comments aimed at the Federal Communication Commission's upcoming report on the status of competition in the video delivery space. ACA members have long railed that their smaller status allows stations and network content providers to charge more per subscriber than what the giant MSOs pay: "About 30 percent more on average for national cable programming," the organization said in its appeal to the FCC.
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Forget fiber: Cable shows off 4.5 Gbps speeds
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The cable business isn't going to cede its share of the broadband market by waiting around for coaxial cable to become obsolete, and now those providers won't have to make an expensive transition to a fiber-to-the-home infrastructure to achieve gigabit networks. Cable equipment provider Arris has demonstrated that it can deliver speeds of up to 4.5 gigabits per second by upgrading the existing cable broadband networks. Today's cable
networking technology, known as DOCSIS, currently is deployed by providers such as Comcast in a version known as DOCSIS 3.0, and ISPs are using it to deliver up to 200 Mbps downstream. But Arris has upped the ante by allocating more channels for broadband and bonding them together, enabling speeds of up to 4.5 Gbps downstream and 575 Mbps up.
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Register today for the June 20 Tom Polis Classic Golf Tournament — space limited
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 The SCTE Foundation is proud to present the 9th Annual
Tom Polis Classic Golf Tournament, honoring the legacy of Tom Polis, a noted cable pioneer and SCTE supporter. All of the proceeds from this year's event will go to support and promote the educational assistance and career development of SCTE members through the grants programs.
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2011 Women in Technology Award call for nominations now open
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Created in 1995 to recognize and honor leading women technology professionals, the annual Women in Technology Award acknowledges the achievements of one woman
who has demonstrated outstanding personal and professional growth and significantly contributed to the cable telecommunications industry. The Women in Technology Award is presented in partnership with the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Women in Cable Telecommunications and Communications Technology magazine.
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What is...RF Theory? Primer available free to members
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Learn how RF (radio frequency) waveforms relate to the most basic waveform in nature: the sine wave. We'll show you the three attributes that define a waveform, and which waveforms generally are known
as RF. You'll learn the definition of impedance and how it affects the performance of RF circuits, and how modulation is used to transport signals via RF and other waveforms. You'll also learn about noise and how it affects signals. Finally, you'll learn about some of the characteristics of RF signal travel in transmission medium.
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SCTE-Tuck Executive Leadership sets 2012 program dates
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Following a highly successful inaugural class earlier this spring, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth College have announced that the second
annual SCTE-Tuck Executive Leadership program will be conducted April 30 to May 5, 2012. Leveraging the expertise of the world-renowned Tuck School of Business and input from cable thought leaders, the 2012 SCTE-Tuck Executive Leadership session will offer rising and established executives a unique opportunity to build the communication, leadership and business skills that are needed to attain and retain technical and business leadership in today's competitive market.
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Can the elimination of ad skipping save VoD?
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Dean Denhart thinks one way to draw media buyers to cable video-on-demand may involve the disablement of the fast-forward function in 30-minute programs, and the delivery of fewer but more targeted ads.
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Cable Show 2011: TiVo opens up 2 new boxes for cable
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TiVo — working overtime to win business from cable operators — will offer MSOs two new set-top options including its first quad-tuner DVR and has enhanced its iPad app to integrate with
cable video services. TiVo Premiere Q is the company's first quad-tuner gateway set-top box, a higher-end option than its flagship Premiere dual-tuner DVR. In addition, TiVo is rolling out Preview, its first non-DVR HD set-top box.
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Bloomberg files complaint against Comcast with FCC
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As promised, Bloomberg officially has asked the Federal Communications Commission to require Comcast to move Bloomberg Television into "existing news
neighborhoods" on its systems, saying that not to do so violates a condition in the FCC's order approving the NBCU deal. In a complaint filed June 13, Bloomberg said that Comcast's assertion that it does not have such neighborhoods and that any "neighborhooding" requirement applies to any future such possible news is off base.
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Maryland leaders celebrate federal dollars for broadband
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Many of the leading members of Maryland's political class — including Democrats Gov. Martin O'Malley and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski — converged June 13 in a nearly empty warehouse in Howard
County to celebrate some federal stimulus funding that is continuing to flow to the state. A $115 million federal grant is being used to expand broadband access throughout Maryland. June 13's event marked the opening of a "logistics center" in Elkridge that will serve as the beachhead for a 10-jurisdiction consortium, including Montgomery and Prince George's counties, that is slated to receive the bulk of the federal money.
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Wisconsin public Internet fights telecom attempts to kill it off
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The University of Wisconsin's Internet technology division and a crucial provider of Internet access for Wisconsin's educational system are under attack from that state's legislature and from a local telecommunications association. At issue is the WiscNet educational cooperative: The nonprofit provides affordable network access to the state's schools and libraries, although its useful days may be numbered unless the picture changes
soon. Under a proposed new law, the University of Wisconsin system could be forced to return millions of dollars in federal broadband grants that it already has won, spend far more money on network services, and perhaps even withdraw from the Internet2 project.
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Register for SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2011 today to save more than $100!
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 The SCTE Cable-Tec Expo — the industry's engineering show of the year — hosts thousands of annual attendees and provides the opportunity to discover and learn first hand about the latest in cable telecommunications technology, products and services in one
cost-effective setting. The SCTE Cable-Tec Expo will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center, Nov. 15-17, as part of Cable Connection-Fall that unites multiple industry events at one time and place.
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Register for Fundamentals of IP Networking in Cable Networks and save $25
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As the cable industry continues to move toward an IP infrastructure for video, voice and data, it is critical to have the knowledge to support the Internet Protocol (IP). This course is designed to
provide cable operator personnel the practical knowledge, application and problem solving of Internet Protocol version 4/6 (IPv4/6) addressing in cable networks.
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Reliable ASI and SDI IP transport is now a realistic, affordable option for cable operators’ contribution applications. The
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Time Warner Cable to pay $260M for some NewWave operations
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Time Warner Cable agreed to acquire NewWave Communications' cable systems in Kentucky and western Tennessee for $260 million. Under the deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter, Time Warner
will add about 70,000 basic video subscribers, 42,000 Internet subscribers and 26,000 phone subscribers.
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Midcontinent Communications purchases systems from US Cable
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Midcontinent Communications is purchasing the Minnesota and Wisconsin cable systems of US Cable. The systems pass approximately 86,000 homes and serve approximately 33,000 customers. Ninety percent of the US Cable customers are served by a fiber network, fed from a single cable headend.
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SCTE Capacity Management Symposium scheduled for Nov. 14 in Atlanta
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Join SCTE for the one-day Capacity Management Symposium on Nov. 14 prior to the start of Cable-Tec Expo. The Capacity Management Symposium will address the challenges that technicians, engineers and
managers face in planning, optimizing and running cable networks in the face of increasing application and service bandwidth needs. Take away an understanding of the latest thinking in traffic modeling and growth, an improved ability to perform comprehensive capacity planning and management tasks, and an ability to apply network capacity considerations to individual service optimization. Registration is available. Register by Nov. 3 and receive more than $100 in savings!
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SlingLoaded is TV Everywhere now. Subscribers can access their content from anywhere. Operators get a scalable, cost-effective solution and a fast-track to new revenue. MORE |
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Top cable engineers see bumpy, passable road to IPv6
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A pair of top cable engineers — Jay Rolls, senior vice president of technology for Cox Communications and Kevin McElearney, senior vice president of network engineering for Comcast — see the move from IPv4 to IPv6 as a challenge that can be overcome. But not without some bumps along the way. "The interesting thing about the v6 transition is that we can do all we want to prepare for that but it's really an entire
ecosystem. There's a lot of interdependence between the operators and the other people offering services on the Internet ... and there will be some bumps on the road; we foresee that for sure," said Rolls, speaking as part of a webcast introducing Cisco's upgraded line of ASR 9000 service routers. McElearney even took issue with the thought that the industry is transitioning to IPv6.
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Missed the SCTE IPv6 course? Take it on demand
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Participants in on-demand courses can start these courses any time and are encouraged to contact the instructor for questions and discussion. They will have
access to the online presentations for eight weeks after they begin a course. Participants spend approximately six to 12 hours per week, on average, completing the various course activities in order to maximize the learning benefits. A certificate is presented after successful completion of the course and the evaluation form.
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SCTE/ARRIS pocket guide PDF download available free to members
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The Data Handbook is a handy pocket reference that places much of the industry stuff you want to know at your fingertips. Topics include safety, RF data and calculations, maintenance and
troubleshooting, international television formats, cable, taps, and passives calculations and manufacturer losses, fiber data, symbols and acronyms, and data transmission. It's loaded with practical applications and opportunities for skill building. New content on packet transport (MPEG/IP) has been incorporated into this edition.
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Register for Understanding Cable Technology today!
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Understanding the technologies supporting today's cable telecommunications architecture is critical to making informed business decisions, thus maximizing your organization's potential. In addition to
learning about the core hybrid fiber-coaxial architecture, you also will learn about the technologies used to deliver high-speed data, video, IP telephony and networking the subscriber's premises. The course then will explore holding it all together with operation and business support systems. In the conclusion, learners will get a glimpse of the future.
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