Cable-Tec 2006: Cable is still waiting to make the switch

DENVER – Cable's deployment of switched digital video, or switched broadcast, has been just on the horizon for a little while now. People still talk about it and say they believe in it, but it isn't happening on a mass scale, yet. However, it's coming. Of the cable CTOs at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo here in Denver, Time Warner Cable's Mike LaJoie seemed most bullish. TWC has deployed SDV in two systems, Austin, Tex., and Columbia, S.C. and "other than a few hiccups, the switching technology we're using is working very well," he said during the breakfast session Wednesday morning...