CABLE-TEC 2010: Cable industry plotting full IPTV move. But when? And how?

By Alan Breznick

NEW ORLEANS - In a cable first, industry engineers are now openly debating how to make the big jump to IPTV as they aim to stretch their networks’ reach to all IP-enabled video devices. The problem is that they don’t really know how much bandwidth, time and effort the move will require just yet.Gathered here for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers’ (SCTE’s) annual Cable-Tec Expo show last week, senior technology executives from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Cisco Systems and SCTE said MSOs will soon begin their much-anticipated IPTV migration by simulcasting some linear channels in both the...