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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
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
