Features

Cable-Tec Expo Wrap Up
Financial realities set the tone at the Cable-Tec Expo, driving technology closer to the bottom line and sharpening everyone's focus. Brisk floor traffic, tight schedules and a good measure of fun.

Readers' Choice Winners
Acterna, C-COR.net and CommScope captured top honors in Communications Technology's annual new products contest.

Planning Series, Part 1
Communications Technology begins its annual planning series with two feature articles this month. Watch for Part 2 in September, when we present additional features to help with 2003 planning.

• Small Business Services
  With potentially $100 billion a year in revenues at stake, the small business market represents a largely untapped reservoir of cash for cable operators. Vendors are launching a variety of new products to make your entrée to this market smoother.

• Training Boosts Bottom Line
  With a little planning, you can equip your employees with the knowledge they need to do the job right the first time, saving your company time and money.

Columns

Broadband
Ron Hranac reviews his top technology picks from SCTE's 2002 Cable-Tec Expo.

Telephony
Jay Junkus continues to examine the debate surrounding a centralized versus distributed approach to deploying voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephony equipment.

SCTE Message
SCTE's Marv Nelson shows how the Society is making training both affordable and available to all of its members.

Industry Insider
The American Cable Association's Matthew Polka outlines the success that some small cable operators have had in obtaining EAS waivers from the Federal Communications Commission.

News & Opinion

Editor's Letter
Deep in the heart of Texas

Pulse

• Liberty Media has begun a VoIP trial in its Liberty Cablevision system in Puerto Rico.
• Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) innovator, TollBridge Technologies has ceased operations. What does this mean for VoIP's future in cable?
• Operators and vendors involved in developing interoperable transponder standards have expressed "extreme disappointment" in the SCTE's refusal to develop and maintain a media access control (MAC) layer test tool.
• Pulse-LINK, a San Diego-based developer of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, has proposed doubling the cable industry's bandwidth using the equivalent of a "sub-nanosecond Morse code."

Training
Fiber-optic fundamentals, part 1.

Marketplace
Finalists in the 2002 Readers' Choice Awards.

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