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SCTE Forms Amateur Radio Club

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
SCTE (www.scte.org) recently formed the SCTE Amateur Radio Club that will bear the FCC-issued call sign, W3HFC. Open to all Society members, the club will serve to increase awareness of the vital need to equip today’s technical workforce with a sound working knowledge of RF. “Although many new technologies are being adopted by the cable industry, [...]
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Peterka Named Verimatrix CTO

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
Petr Peterka is the new CTO at Verimatrix (www.verimatrix.com). Prior to this, he was a distinguished member of the technical staff in the CTO’s office at Motorola’s Home and Networks Mobility Team. He has been active with standards organizations including DECE, DLNA CPS, ATIS, SMPTE, Coral, DVB, ITU-T and others, and has worked with Hollywood studios, [...]
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TOA Tech Names Allen President of European Ops

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
TOA Technologies (www.toatech.com), which offers SaaS solutions for mobile workforce management, named Richard Alden as president of its European operations. He was formerly the CEO of Spanish cable operator ONO.
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Bowick Joins Inlet Tech BoD

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
Industry vet Chris Bowick has joined the board of directors at Inlet Technologies (www.inlethd.com). Bowick, currently president of The Bowick Group LLC, retired as SVP of engineering and CTO of Cox in June 2009.
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SeaChange Announces Exec Staff Changes

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
SeaChange International (www.schange.com) announced the departure of Ed Dunbar, who had held the role of president and COO. Yvette Kanouff was promoted to president, where she will be responsible for the company’s business development, overall product strategy, product management, communications and investor relations. Additionally, Erwin van Dommelen was promoted to president of SeaChange Software, where he [...]
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BigBand Networks Announces Exec Changes

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
BigBand Networks (www.bigbandnetworks.com) recently announced a wide range of executive changes. Mike Pohl was appointed as a non-executive chairman of the board of directors. His appointment will separate the roles of CEO and chairman. Amir Bassan-Eskenazi will continue to serve as BigBand’s CEO and will be responsible for executive management of the company. In addition, [...]
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Charter and One Economy Partner for Free Internet Service

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
Charter Communications and One Economy, a global non-profit organization that leverages the power of technology to improve the lives of low-income people, will partner with local community agencies in a pilot program to provide up to 1,000 St. Louis area households with free Internet service, training and affordable technology. Charter will provide approximately $700,000 in [...]
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VITA Awards Cox Business Services Internet Svcs Contracts

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) awarded Cox Business statewide contracts for Internet services in selected speed tiers and zip codes. The contract now provides a vehicle for Cox to provide both Cox Business Internet and Cox Optical Internet to State customers through the VITA ordering process. Cox Business Internet has speeds that range from [...]
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Neutral Tandem Selects Cisco

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
Neutral Tandem (www.neutraltandem.com) a provider of tandem interconnection services to wireless, wireline, cable and broadband telephony companies, selected the Cisco (www.cisco.com) ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers to support its new Ethernet exchange service.  Neutral Tandem’s Ethernet eXchange is said to fill a void in the Ethernet market by providing Ethernet service providers a more [...]
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Time Warner Launches DOCSIS 3.0 in North Texas

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
Time Warner Cable launched wideband Internet in North Texas propelled by DOCSIS 3.0. Residential customers can get speeds up to 50 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream for $99.95 per month. In related news, TWC will be offering wideband Internet service to Western New York as of April 5, offering download speeds of up to [...]
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Cablevision du Nord Deploys Mixed Signals

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
Mixed Signals’ (www.mixedsignals.com) Sentry and Medius digital content monitoring solutions are being used by Cablevision du Nord, a Canadian cable op. Cablevision is the largest cable operator in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Québec, providing cable TV and high-speed Internet to tens of thousands of subscribers in 50 municipalities throughout the province.
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BlackArrow and Fox Trial Advanced Ad System

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
BlackArrow (www.blackarrow.tv) partnered with Fox Cable Networks to trial the BlackArrow Advanced Advertising System across the VOD content of FX, National Geographic Channel and SPEED. With the BlackArrow system, Fox is testing the ability to deliver addressable advertising to viewers in multiple cable markets. The programmer is using the BlackArrow Sales Suite to customize on-demand [...]
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Comcast and Augusta Deliver Masters in 3D

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
Comcast and The Augusta National Golf Club announced a partnership to deliver The Masters Tournament in 3D. Consumers with new 3D televisions and 3D-enabled PCs will be able to watch the Masters broadcasts live in 3D from April 7-11. The event marks a series of industry firsts — the first live next-generation 3D broadcast of [...]
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Product News: March 18, 2010

By bgrstaff | Published: March 17, 2010
Cisco Tees Up for Next-Generation Internet • Moxi Shines at SCTE Innovation Showcase • BigBand Doubles Down on HD and Stream Processing Capacity • Mixed Signals Beefs Up Video/Audio Error Resolution Capabilities • Blonder Tongue Extends Digital and Encoder Lines • New Associates of Applied Science Degree Offered by Jones/NCTI • RGB Adds to Broadcast Network Processor Line • Cable Show Technical Program Features Top CTOs, CIOs • Clearfield Intros New WDM Packaging • New VoIP Team: Sigma Systems, Cedar Point • IneoQuest Expands Microsoft Mediaroom Line and IPTV Support Solutions • Quintech Debuts RF Matrix Router • 
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SCTE Engineering Professional Program Certifies First Individuals

By bgrstaff | Published: March 3, 2010
Jason Byrd of Suddenlink and Randy Dart of Charter are the first individuals to certify in SCTE’s (www.scte.org) Engineering Professional programs. Byrd is the first to earn the SCTE Internet Protocol Engineering Professional (IPEP) certification. Dart is the first to earn the SCTE Digital Video Engineering Professional (DVEP) certification.
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Incognito Adds to Global Sales Team

By bgrstaff | Published: March 3, 2010
Incognito Software (www.incognito.com) added Roy Kraft and Hector Villalvazo to its global sales team. Kraft joins the company as the sales director, North America East while Villalvazo joins as pre-sales manager for Mexico, Caribbean and Central America. In other appointment news, Incognito also named Patrick Kinnerk as product manager.
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SCTE in Search for CTO

By bgrstaff | Published: March 3, 2010
SCTE (www.scte.org) has created an opening for a chief technology officer, and has instituted a search process to identify potential candidates for the position. The CTO, who will report directly to SCTE President/CEO Mark Dzuban, will be responsible for driving technical leadership and innovation that can help the cable industry achieve several critical goals: Further [...]
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Tuomi Joins Aurora as VP of WW Sales

By bgrstaff | Published: March 3, 2010
Pirjo Tuomi joined Aurora Networks (www.aurora.com) as vice president of worldwide sales. Tuomi, who has 20 years experience working with telecom and cable equipment companies around the world including Vello Systems, BigBand Networks and Nortel, will lead Aurora Networks’ global sales efforts.
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MTV Networks Int’l Orders Miranda Viewers

By bgrstaff | Published: March 3, 2010
Miranda Technologies (www.miranda.com) reports that MTV Networks International, Amsterdam (MTVNI Amsterdam) has ordered two Kaleido-X multi-viewers and an NVISION 8576 enterprise class router for a system expansion, which will allow playout of up to 75 channels from July 2010.
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Bejing Gehua Picks BigBand Edge QAM

By bgrstaff | Published: March 3, 2010
Beijing Gehua Cable TV Network (Gehua Cable) picked BigBand’s (www.bigbandnetworks.com) edge QAM BEQ platform to deliver its new interactive HDTV and broadband internet services. Gehua Cable operates the broadcasting and cable TV network as well as reception and transmission of broadcasting and cable TV programs within the Beijing municipal area. The large-scale cable network covers [...]
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