Cable / Telecom News

Network traffic cops

OTTAWA - Serendipitously gathered together on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Rogers WAVE, the first North American high speed Internet on cable service, SCTE-Ontario members heard first hand that if traffic isn’t managed smartly, cable services, VOIP especially, will suffer. About 100 of the chapter’s 400+ members came together at the Ottawa Travelodge West last Thursday and www.cartt.ca was there. John Downey, broadband network engineer at Cisco; Tony Faccia, vice-president networks and capacity planning at Rogers Cable; Tom Donnelly, co-founder and v-p sales and marketing at Sandvine; and Lindsay Schroth of research company Yankee Group all made presentations,...