Communications Technology this Month

Planning 2001

In our annual two-part roundup, we offer planning strategies to help you get your plant in shape for the new year.

• Operators’ Plans
  Senior Editor Natalia Feduschak reports explains why industry insiders predict next year will be a "golden era" in television.
• Tomorrow’s Headends
  ADC’s Sara Manderfield and Ross Ruschmeyer provide tips to ensure your system is equipped for tomorrow’s technology challenges.
• Media Streaming
  Contributing Editor Arthur Cole outlines tips for easing your planning process for media streaming.
• Enhanced Services
  Philips’ Jan van der Meer describes the latest multimedia apps for enhanced broadcast services with complementary delivery over IP.
• QoS over VoIP
  Cisco Systems’ Mark Bakies explains how broadband operators that implement a QoS system may improve reliability.
• Planning for PODs
  Scientific-Atlanta’s Anthony Wasilewski discusses point-of-deployment (POD) modules are critical to making retail set-tops available.

Video Compression
ANTEC’s Jim Farmer details three ways to remove frame-to-frame redundancy—one of the main sources of redundancy in picture content.

Need Fiber?
Deployment Editor Jonathan Tombes offers strategies to alleviate your fiber shortage.

Fiber-to-the-Home
Contributing Editor Monta Monaco Hernon reports on the progress of fiber-to-the-home.

Expansion Loops
CommScope’s David L. Jones explains the dos and don’ts for using expansion loops in cable plant.

Network Maintenance
InteQ’s Bruce Bahlmann explores how today’s problems with network management could propel a push for more open systems and standardization.

Columns

Broadband
CT Senior Technical Editor Ron Hranac explains babbling set-tops, transient hum modulation and other potential reverse path nightmares.

Telephony
Telephony Editor Justin Junkus discusses systems integration needed to provide IP-enabled customer services.

Certification
SCTE Director of Certification Gary Selwitz outlines the organization’s latest Broadband Services Technician program.

SCTE Message
SCTE President and CEO John Clark offers a sneak peak at Emerging Technologies 2001, to be held Jan. 8-10 in New Orleans.

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