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Terayon hit the modem jackpot, shipping its one millionth DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem. In commemoration of the event, Terayon?s CEO Zaki Rakib presented this shiny gold DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem?number one million?to Greg Butz, senior vice president of marketing and business development for Comcast?s High-Speed Internet division.
?A broadband engineer today who doesn?t understand the economics of what they?re doing won?t be doing it for long.?
? Jim Kuhns, director of network engineering, Optinel, in an interview with CT?s Pipeline.
?I assure you that in the thick of things, we have little clue what we are hatching. Maybe my colleagues at the telephone companies know more (and aren?t saying) about the broadband world, but I doubt it.?
? Comcast CTO David Fellows, in the forward of Rouzbeh Yassini?s new book, Planet Broadband
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Tandberg Television appointed Oran Cassem its new chief technology officer. He comes from Imagine Broadband, where he was chief operating officer. |
Artel Video Systems added three new members to its Technical Advisory Board. The new members include Thomas Elliot, executive consultant at CableLabs; Robert A. Luff, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Nielsen Media Research; and David Feldman, corporate vice president of technology at Charter. These new members join founding TAB member, Wendell Bailey, president and CEO of Strategic Technology International, in working with Artel on the development of new products targeting the cable television industry.
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Roy Thompson is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing for Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc.?s cable and communications group. |
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Planet Broadband
Cable modem pioneer Rouzbeh Yassini has a new book out. Published by the Cisco Press, Planet Broadband chronicles the development of the nascent broadband market and its transforming influence on our lives. The book sells for $29.95. ISBN: 1587200902. www.ciscopress.com.
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Broadband Entertainment: Digital Audio, Video and Gaming in Your Home
In his new book, author Scott Kipp examines the evolution of the entertainment server?what it means, how it works and how it will shape the future of entertainment. Broadband Entertainment also covers the history of high-tech entertainment?from Atari to the Xbox, mono to surround sound, and black and white television to HDTV. The book sells for $29.95. ISBN: 0-9741410-1-1. .
In an article on video-conferencing in our October issue, we mistakenly characterized the compression technology described by Jack Nester, CEO and co-founder of Telecompression Technologies. The technology actually consumes 16KB/16KB (kilobytes) upstream/downstream, according to the company. We apologize for any confusion.
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