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Verizon's Once a Century Upgrade
New Local Content Workshops Are Forming “Once a century upgrade,” is how Shawn Strickland, Verizon Communications’ Vice President of Video Solutions characterized Verizon’s FIOS network. Since FIOS is fundamentally a fiber to the home approach, Verizon is essentially replacing their existing copper. He explained that RF remains the lowest cost for distributing broadcast video and…
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A Tribute to YP Chen
Yin Pao Chen was not a particularly imposing individual. His somewhat slight build betrayed the athletic competitiveness he once had as a high school baseball player in Taiwan. He also was not one to brag about his academic achievements or his business accomplishments. He was simply a man of integrity whose bedrock adherence to principles…
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….The Rest of an Extreme Makeover Story
New Local Content Workshops Are Forming HTC was proud to be one of the sponsors of the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” for the Wilson family living in an HTC service area off of Highway 90 in Longs, South Carolina. HTC provided free wireless access for the media and spectators, wireless internet access for the builders,…
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Security Card Eliminates Set-Top
Pictured Above – Laurent Jabiol – President/co-founder Neotion Neotion introduced a MPEG-4 decoder that fits inside a smart card. This effectively eliminates the need for an MPEG-4 set-top for any television with a smartcard interface (apparently in Europe, the Smartcard interface has been mandated for years). This box is being used in conjunction with PC…
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Is WiMAX Market success dependent on new Consumer Electronic (CE) devices? A Prescription for WiMAX Success
By Alan J. Weissberger, alan at viodi.com, www.viodi.com/weissberger/ During an April 18th telebriefing, the Yankee Group predicted a proliferation of WiMAX enabled CE devices in 2008-09. The hypothesis is that WiMAX device strategies aim to disrupt the status quo for service distribution- away from traditional CPE (modems, integrated adapters for notebook PCs) and into Consumer…
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A Potential WiMAX DoublePlay in the 700 MHz Band
By Alan J. Weissberger, alan at viodi.com When the US government ordered the transition to digital TV by Feb. 19, 2009, it did so to reclaim radio spectrum and reallocate the frequencies to public safety organizations and commercial broadband networks. In particular, frequencies until now used by UHF television are being opened up by the…
