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Building a Maintenance Program

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Greg Allshouse
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How in-depth is your facilities preventive maintenance (PM) program? Does your organization use an actual PM program, or do you repair only as necessary (ROAN)? Just like your personal vehicle, facilities systems come with recommended maintenance schedules. Preventive maintenance requires … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged facilities maintenance, In the Network, preventive maintenance

Q1 Financials: Interesting Exceptions

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Ron Hendrickson
Ron Hendrickson

Sometimes the exceptions tell you more than the rule does, and that’s certainly so with cable operators’ financial results for the first quarter of 2012. A couple cable ops have actually gained video subscribers. For several years now, cable has … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged Business Services, Cablevision, data, GCI, Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, verticals, video, voice

The Streaming Dream and Linear Legacy

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Ron Hendrickson
Ron Hendrickson

With all the streaming video news that keeps coming out, one has to wonder how much longer ordinary linear video is going to last. Parks Associates recently released research indicating that more than 25% of all video viewing in U.S. … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged Multiscreen, streaming video, video

Hot Topic: Adaptive Bitrate VOD Transcoding

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Andy Salo, RGB Networks
Andy Salo, RGB Networks

- SPONSORED CONTENT – VOD transcoding is getting a lot of attention these days. Not that it ever went out of style, but lately it’s become front and center again for many video service providers (VSPs). I am on several … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged Multiscreen, RGB Networks, video, VOD

Facilities Management: When to Get Formal

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Greg Allshouse
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Facilities management (FM) practices vary widely within the cable operations landscape; not every cable operator has a formal system in place, and FM practices can even vary within the same company. There may be home-grown spreadsheets, just a collection of … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged facilities management, In the Network

The New World of Advanced Advertising

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Carl Weinschenk
Carl Weinschenk

The goal — monetizing advanced advertising — is clear. That’s about all that is clear, however. Philip Knightbridge, CTO and Fellow at IBB Consulting, suggested that the mercurial evolution of this promising revenue generator will test cable operators. A good … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged advanced advertising, In the Home, In the Network

Facilities Management for Cable Ops

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Greg Allshouse
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As the cable industry’s physical networks and equipment have become more complex over the years, so has the need for our headend and hub site buildings to provide a clean, temperature controlled, reliably powered environment for that equipment. This is … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged facilities management, In the Network

Multiple Paths to SCTE-130 Implementation

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Carl Weinschenk
Carl Weinschenk

The mechanics of getting the right spot to the right device at the right time are tremendously tricky. The task involves stringing together a long list of devices that implement standards under the SCTE 130 banner. Essentially, there are five … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged advanced advertising, SCTE 130, standards, video

Time to Rethink Data Spectrum? What Say Ye?

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Ron Hendrickson
Ron Hendrickson

All the signs are pointing to a coming boom in Internet traffic, so it would be wise to get ready for it. Is it time to rethink how much spectrum cable operators allocate to data? The idea isn’t new. European … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged cell backhaul, data, Internet, verticals | Leave a reply

All This Fuss Over Three Hours a Month?

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Carl Weinschenk
Carl Weinschenk

Cable television operators should take solace — actually, a good deal of solace — from a report released this week by Juniper Research, an organization based in Great Britain. The study concludes that by the year 2014, average monthly viewing … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged In the Home, Multiscreen

Uptick on Advanced Advertising

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Ron Hendrickson
Ron Hendrickson

Apparently today is advanced advertising day for cable. Pret’ near everything newsworthy to come over the wires this morning has involved advanced advertising in one way or another. Probably the biggest blip on the radar was a bit of research … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged advanced advertising, video

You want to know more about MPEG DASH?

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Andy Salo, RGB Networks
Andy Salo, RGB Networks

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It was bound to happen at some point. MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) has been ratified and is on its way to becoming an industry-accepted standard. There will still be a few bumps along the way, but it seems that streaming industry vendor development is moving along well. Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged MPEG, MPEG-DASH, Multiscreen, RGB, RGB Networks

All Politics — and All Cable — is Local

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Carl Weinschenk
Carl Weinschenk

It may be an oversight due to the nature of local reporting — the reporters are good, often very good, but have to cover dozens of topics and aren’t able to dig too deeply or even totally understand each one … Continue reading →

Posted in BGR Blog | Tagged Comcast, data, franchise, video, voice

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    In today’s cable systems, moves, adds and changes are done manually. This is becoming an increasingly cumbersome approach as the overall number of programming streams and the type of services represented increases. The answer to this challenge – which will grow greater over time if not addressed – is to automate these activities. Continue reading →

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    Virtually all cable operators will be offering multiscreen services in the near future, if they are not already. It will be table stakes: To not be in the game will not be a realistic option. The key is to acknowledge this, and to deploy platforms and procedures that maximize revenue, minimize expenditures and make multiscreen service provisioning as efficient as possible. Continue reading →

  • Multiscreen Leaders 2012: Winning in a Tough Game Multiscreen Leaders 2012

    Multiscreen is the buzzword of the decade … and for good reason. To compete in such a tough environment, however, platforms must be efficient and rock solid. BTR’s Multiscreen Leaders 2012 series presents six such solutions. Watch and see how Envivio, Tektronix, Verimatrix, Motorola, IneoQuest and RGB Networks help you thrive in this brave new world. Continue reading →

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  • Building a Maintenance Program Allshouse

    How in-depth is your facilities preventive maintenance (PM) program? Does your organization use an actual PM program, or do you repair only as necessary (ROAN)? Just like your personal vehicle, … Continue reading →

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    Sometimes the exceptions tell you more than the rule does, and that’s certainly so with cable operators’ financial results for the first quarter of 2012. A couple cable ops have … Continue reading →

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