Cable Show 2009: CTOs talk bandwidth reclamation

WASHINGTON D.C. – When governments talk about reclamation, they generally are talking about land – either dumping vast quantities of earth into an ocean or other body of water in order to expand their land mass where none previously existed, or restoring certain regions to their natural state after they were clogged with pollution or some industry had used it up. When cable engineers and their bosses talk about reclamation – but it’s about expanding their bandwidth – and how they can find new bandwidth where it was once all used up. In what was dubbed the CTO session yesterday,...