SCTE Canadian Summit: Comcast, TWC Scuffling Over CMAP?

By Alan Breznick

TORONTO - Despite attempts to smooth over their differences, Comcast and Time Warner Cable appear at least somewhat at odds over a proposed next-generation architecture for the cable industry. Hints about potentially key technical differences between Time Warner’s new convergence edge project and a similar project pioneered by Comcast kept cropping up at the SCTE Canadian Summit here the past two days. Although cable executives tried to downplay any differences between the two initiatives, it appears the two biggest U.S. MSOs may be charting somewhat divergent paths on the new architecture, frustrating the original goals of cable technologists, aggravating equipment...