Communications Technology this Month

Features

Powerline Technology
Senior Editor Natalia A. Feduschak illuminates powerline technology and operator concerns that it will become an effective competitor in the transmission of voice, video and data.

Western Show Wrap-Up
Deployment Editor Jonathan Tombes and Senior Editor Natalia A. Feduschak review highlights from this year's Western Cable Show.

Home Networking
Contributing Editor Arthur Cole describes how the latest development in the home networking arena will force cable operators to face new technology standards and create products that can "talk" to each other.

Open Access
Alopa Networks' Bruce Bahlmann delves into open-access connectivity management in this second installment of his series.

CableLabs' Y2K
CableLabs reviews the successes of OpenCable's past year and takes a look at the year ahead.

MAC Sublayer
In our second installment on the media access control (MAC) sublayer, Thomson Multimedia's Louis Litwin explains how to make network traffic more efficient with dynamic allocation protocols.

Digital Signal Carriage
In our final installment on digital data, Cisco Systems' John J. Downey explains how "must carry" rules affect over-the-air channels, and how to transfer digital data without having to convert to analog.

Columns

Broadband
Senior Technical Editor Ron Hranac reviews his Western Show picks.

Telephony
Telephony Editor Justin Junkus takes a look at cable telephony's future, and how cable's reorganizations might affect its technology.

Certification
SCTE Director of Certification Gary Selwitz explains how to prepare for the technical-foundation portion of the Society's Broadband Service Technical certification program.

SCTE Message
SCTE Vice President of Operations Marv Nelson asks broadband professionals to help update SCTE's certification training.

News & Opinion

• Editor's Letter
  
• Pulse:
  • Cox to Provide Broadband Services to State of Arizona
  • Liberate Lines Up nCube VOD Engine
  • New Lab Reduces Service Rollout Times
  • Wave7 Optics Takes 'Off-the-Shelf' Approach
  • Cable Center Supports Oral History Program
  • Digital Recording Coming to Set-tops
  • Deployment Watch Monthly Update
  • Fixed Wireless Start-up Targets Untapped Markets
  • AT&T Affirms MSTV Pact
  • OpenTV Accelerates ITV
• Marketplace

Reference

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