Leslie Ellis is owner of Ellis Edits Inc. and Translation-Please.com, a Denver-based analysis/writing firm specializing in the technologies used in cable, multichannel and broadband delivery systems. Specific focus is "translating" the dense language surrounding the technologies and technology strategies of service providers, and particularly cable service providers. ...read more
| Spring 2012 -- Interesting Stuff in Cable Tech Roundup
Spring is a good time to pull up, look around, and regroup around the boatload of interesting stuff that’s happening in cable tech circles. In no particular order, here’s my list, culled from various batches of notes:
1. Fiber shortage? Hard to imagine, given the fiber glut left in the wake of the cra....read more |
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| Somebody Please Bring HD Voice to the U.S.
Writing about something you have to hear to believe is as vexing, if not more, than writing about what you have to see to believe. But even that comparison is a start. Let’s assume that we all lived through the first days of HDTV. (Mine was at the Atlantic City Convention Center, on the boardwalk, in the early ‘90s. T....read more |
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| Inside the Comcast RDK, Part 2
This week’s translation steps farther into the parts of the Comcast “RDK” (reference development kit), the software effort aimed at shaving a year off the time it takes to launch new cable ga....read more |
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