SCTE Canadian Summit 2012: Cable engineers plot IP video push

By Alan Breznick

TORONTO – Now that they have started to embrace IP video technology, cable engineers are busily figuring out the best way to make the big transition to all-IP service delivery. Speaking at the SCTE Canadian Summit here earlier this week, MSO technologists spelled out various ways that they could use bonded DOCSIS 3.0 broadband channels to transmit IP video signals to customers’ homes. “We see the future as getting IP content to the home,” said Dermot O’Carroll, senior vice president of access networks for Rogers Communications. “In a cable company, getting IP to the home means using DOCSIS.” In a...