Interactive TV Platforms
CT Contributing Editor Art Cole reviews some of the interactive TV platform that can help you cash in on those expensive upgrades.
Network Management
MediaOne’s Bruce Bahlmann guides you through the process of choosing a network management system.
Cable 2K Wrap-Up
The spirit of NCTA’s theme, "The Face of Cable is Changing," was tangible everywhere at its annual cable conference. Whether you attended the general sessions, technical panels, or strolled through the exhibit halls, you couldn’t escape cable’s growing presence in telephony, high-speed data, and digital interactive television.
Signal Leakage
CT Senior Technical Editor Ron Hranac warns how not to violate an often overlooked FCC signal leakage rule that many cable operators miss. Low leakage levels that create interference to licensed over-the-air users such as ham radio operators could make you liable.
High Standards
CT Deployment Editor Jonathan Tombes takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers’ engineering subcommittees, which have the crucial task of developing cable industry standards in this age of fluid, interoperable technologies.
Web Security
CT Contributing Editor Monta Monaco Hernon offers strategies on making access to the Internet via cable modem more secure, including coverage on the latest improvements in filtering and firewall capabilities.
New Board Members
CT talks with Eric Brownell, M.J. Jackson, Percy Kirk and Bob Foote -- the newest members to be elected to the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers’ board of directors for the 2000-2001 term, and who represent a third of the nation for SCTE.
Interview with a Leader
CT Editor-in-Chief Rex Porter chats with Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers’ Region 10 Director Wes Burton.
Broadband
CT Senior Technical Editor Ron Hranac discusses whether wireless technology is cable’s foe or friend. His answer may surprise you.
Telephony
KnowledgeLink’s Justin Junkus reviews the basics of traffic engineering as a foundation for cable engineers getting into IP telephony.
Analysis
CT Editor Jennifer Whalen explains why the rigors of adding telephony to your system are worth the rewards.
SCTE Message
Marianne McClain describes her freshman year as the SCTE Region 11 board member, and reviews some of the society’s milestones.
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