Features

IP Basics
What is IP? How does it assist in the transmission of voice, video and data? What's an IP address? A host? A node? Our editors review some of the basics.

IP and Service Delivery
Arris Broadband reviews HFC techniques for delivering voice, video and data services over IP.

IP Over HFC
For the IP/HFC network to become reality, cable operators will have to focus on core network elements including: the role of edge devices, CMTS requirements, routing issues and transport options.

It's a Wrap
Comcast takes the lead, as Broadband PlusÑthe once and future Western ShowÑrefocuses on technology.

Columns

Broadband
Ron Hranac picks his favorite products from the Broadband Plus show. What's on his list? Everything from home networking equipment to toneable conduit to DOCSIS testing gear.

SCTE Message
John Clark, SCTE's president/CEO, invites everyone to Philadelphia, Pa., to attend the 20th Anniversary Cable-Tec Expo and Annual Engineering Conference, May 11-14.

Industry Insider
Steve Necessary, CEO of Concurrent Computer's Xtreme Division, notes that the time is finally right to launch video-on-demand. Consumers are ready; technology is mature; and content is poised for growth.

Backtalk
Laura Hamilton notes how engineers must prepare their HFC nets to meet HDTV's voracious appetite for bandwidth without impinging on current voice, video and data services.

News & Opinion

Editor's Letter

Optimize
In this new department, we look at ways that you can use anti-spam software to save money in your data network, as well as how Comcast is using past lessons-learned to speed upgrades of its acquired AT&T Broadband plant.

Maximize
New this month, this section covers Cablevision's plans to trial VoIP in Long Island by mid-year and other network-maximizing plans by Charter, Comcast and Time Warner Cable.

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