Communications Technology this Month

Features

Interactive Applications
The promised land of interactive apps beckons, but getting there requires optimizing, integrating, transcoding and otherwise working hard to get it right.

Optical Node Segmentation
Take two amps, convert them to nodes and you won't even need to call your network engineer in the morning.

Cable Modem Tutorial
In part two of his tutorial, Professor Hranac explains initialization, looks closer at DOCSIS and discusses data service operations.

Glossary of Cable Modem Terms
From "CATV" to "USB" -- the essential cable-modem lingo.

Set-Tops Special Report

• Digital Deployment
  Half-a-million digital set-tops and 500 digital headends? AT&T's Margaret Gaillard tells how she won this war.
• Next-Generation Set-Tops
  Welcome the new class of advanced set-tops, but don't bid the current generation farewell.
• Set-Top Design
  Don't neglect the RF front-end of advanced boxes. Output power, linearity, harmonic distortion and noise performance still matter.

• Radio Shack, Circuit City...and Cox?

Drop Clamp Methods
Test results show that spiral grip and 2-4-2 wrap have their problems, but coaxial drop clamps look like winners.

Widening the Stream
Operators should take another look at streaming video. Here's the case for an IP multicast-enabled, thin-client-based approach.

Internet Innovation
Since an initial period of rapid change when it was first becoming popular, the Internet has remained relatively static. That could change soon.

Columns

Broadband
Senior Technology Editor Ron Hranac revisits the question of always-on Internet connections and offers six tips for greater security.

Telephony
Telephony Editor Jay Junkus decrypts the network interface device (NID) and suggests a big future for this little box.

SCTE Message
The SCTE's online job bank connects engineers, managers, technicians and installers with leading broadband industry employers.

Industry Insider
CT Publisher Tim Hermes thought broadband leaders needed a low-stress weekend, and did something about it.

News & Opinion

• Editor's Letter
• Pulse: Gunning for Businesses
• Pulse: Concurrent Signs on with Liberate
• Pulse: Videotron Deploys PowerTV
• Pulse: Digital Insertionâs Standards and Challenges
• Pulse: Cox Videoconferences with RoseTel
• Pulse: Overbuilders Get Analyzed
• From the Pipe: DSL Security Scare Could Alarm Cable Modem Subs
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• Vendor Connection

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