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BTR is proud to bring you a great selection of this year’s Diamond Technology Reviews in this special video showcase.
We invite you to relax, grab a cup of coffee and watch the full showcase or select an individual company vignette. Continue reading
The results are in! The elite scoring products of the 2011 BTR Diamond Technology Reviews cover the entire gamut of broadband technology. From ad insertion to multiscreen to almost more QAMs than you can count, our 11 industry judges have selected the best of the best from a huge field of submissions. Find out who scored a perfect 5 Diamond score and see some great newcomers in this year’s Diamond Technology Review special report. Continue reading
Enabling cable operators to provide consumers with an integrated linear and VOD viewing interface across mobile, PC, tablet and TV screens, SeaChange’s Nitro impelled the judging panel to declare it “powerful” and “revolutionary.” Nitro’s HTML-5 and Java Script foundation lets … Continue reading
Designed to allow cable operators to aggregate multiple HDTV programs received in IP format and to deliver them over a standard coaxial distribution network, the EQAM-420A was ranked a “well-designed” and “flexible” edge QAM unit by the Diamond judges. The … Continue reading
A next-generation probing technology, the Expedus ASM is used to monitor, analyze and troubleshoot adaptive streaming protocols in CDNs. It simultaneously emulates multiple client endpoints, ensuring both live and VOD adaptive streaming assets are available 24/7 at any geographical location … Continue reading
RGB’s TransAct Packager segments streams using adaptive streaming technology to deliver video and audio to PCs, mobile devices and set-top boxes. The system ingests H.264 encoded video streams carried in an MPEG-2 transport stream and produces segment output in Apple … Continue reading
Sunrise Telecom carries an array of cable testing gear, and the CM3000 Series is its latest line of field spectrum/DOCSIS 3.0 network analyzers. Intended for plant maintenance personnel as a comprehensive tool, the series can perform preventive maintenance and troubleshoot … Continue reading
Tektronix recently upgraded its Sentry digital content monitor to identify overly loud ads across the entire channel lineup so that operators can adjust ad volumes (per compliance requirements for the fast-approaching CALM Act deadline). Existing Sentry users (which include nine … Continue reading
Motorola’s new broadband device connects via Ethernet to WiFi routers to allow consumers to watch all their subscribed, live TV on a connected IP device anywhere around the home. MSOs can use Televation to increase ARPU and extend their brand … Continue reading
Harmonic’s new universal edge QAM solution can deliver up to 648 QAM channels per 2-RU chassis, and its NSG 9000 HectoQAM doubles the RF port density of its competitors, according to the company. One of several dense QAM contenders in … Continue reading
The only product to receive 5 Diamonds this year, CommScope’s new LxS-16016 Universal Edge QAM had the Diamonds judges doing double takes: At first glance it appears fairly innocuous, but upon realizing it provides up to 160 QAM channels, on … Continue reading
A year after we launched BTR, our brain trust looked at the industry and came to the realization that there really was no tangible recognition program for outstanding and technically innovative products. While there has always been several publications – both print and online – serving this market, it was a niche that we felt needed to be filled. So, in 2005 we launched BTR’s (then-BGR’s) Diamond Technology Reviews. Continue reading
Application Form Now Available – Early Bird Deadline: July 22, 2011
The BTR Diamond Technology Reviews (“the Diamonds”), now in its seventh year, is a renowned industry program that was developed to recognize some of the top products and solutions available to the cable industry as determined by a stellar panel of MSO engineering experts.
Engineering executives from Bright House, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Suddenlink, Sunflower Broadband and Time Warner Cable will serve as third-party judges for the 2011 Diamonds. The names of the 2011 panel members will not be released prior to the review process in the interest of maintaining the full independent integrity of the ranking process. Continue reading
