 Communications Technology this Month
December 2000
Features
Margaret Gaillard
Last year's Women in Technology Award recipient Sally Kinsman turns the spotlight on this year's winnerMargaret Gaillard, AT&T Broadband's director of technical operations.
Upstream Power Measurements
CT Senior Technical Editor Ron Hranac and Cisco Systems' Mark Millet explain how to perform upstream power measurements using the zero-span method.
Jumpin' On The BroadBandwagon
CT Contributing Editor Monta Monaco Hernon previews the products, exhibits and workshops you'll see at this year's Western Show.
Audio Compression
Wave7 Optics' Jim Farmer illustrates the basic principle and techniques behind audio compression.
Open Access
In the first of our three-part series, Alopa Networks' Bruce Bahlmann advises how you can overcome the major obstacles to open access.
MAC Sublayer
Thomson Multimedia's Louis Litwin defines the media access control (MAC) sublayer and how it affects your network, in part one of our series.
Regulatory Roundup
CT Deployment Editor Jonathan Tombes guides you through the legal cases and regulatory issues that have impacted cable operators this year.
Home Networks
C-COR.net's Tony Ghaffari clarifies why broadband installers and technicians need to understand the basics of home networking.
Set-Tops
CT Contributing Editor Arthur Cole reports that set-tops are poised to become a key component of consumer equipment, with the cable industry gearing up by tailoring new hardware, software and standards.
Application Service Providers
Lucent's Pablo L. Martinez explains the relevance of the application service provider model to cable networks.
Upgraded Cable
Time Warner Cable's Paul Gemme and CommScope's Christopher Gemme help you decide when it's time to fix aging cable plant or invest in system upgrades.
Digital Signal Carriage
In the second of a three-part series, Acterna's John J. Downey outlines modulation schemes and the affects of digital on existing analog channels. He also offers tips on placing your digitally modulated carriers.
Virtual Private Networks
University of Southern California MBA candidate Mark C. Rodrick explains virtual private networks, and how they can elevate cable operators above mere "transport" providers.
Columns
Broadband
CT Senior Technical Editor Ron Hranac explains the service-call percentage tracking as a means of gauging the cost of a cable system's corrective maintenance activities.
Telephony
KnowledgeLink's Justin Junkus conducts a verbal "tour" of a telephone company's central office side-by-side with a tour of a headend equipped for cable telephony.
Standards
SCTE Digital Video Subcommittee (DVS) recently developed a step-by-step definition of its point-of-deployment (POD) module which characterizes the POD features and download.
SCTE Message
Since SCTE received American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accreditation in 1995, the number of companies contributing to the standards-developing process has steadily grown each year.
News & Opinion
Reference
Access Intelligence's CABLE GROUP
Communications Technology | CableFAX Daily | CableFAX's CableWORLD | CT's Pipeline
CableFAX Magazine | CableFAX databriefs | Broadband Leaders Retreat | CableFAX Leaders Retreat
|
