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Cable / Telecom News March 11, 2011 15 years ago

Next-generation services, Werner keynote, highlight third annual SCTE Canadian Summit

EXTON, PA – This year’s SCTE Canadian Summit attracted approximately 700 attendees, including an increased number of representatives from countries beyond North America, plus 10 first-time vendor exhibitors, organizers said Friday. Kicking off with a keynote address by Comcast EVP and CTO Tony Werner, the two-day event featured a sweeping look at what is on the horizon for the industry. Next-generation panels addressed video architectures, access platforms, and provisioning and management, while other presentations targeted topics like business services, fibre-to-the-home, home networking and gateways, optimizing upstream capacity, and the coming transition to IPv6. “SCTE Canadian Summit continues to evolve as a focal… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News March 9, 2011 15 years ago

Analog shut-off: U.S. moving to mobile TV while Canadians still talking transition

By Steven James May TORONTO – Nearly two years after its switch to digital TV, the American broadcasting industry has turned its attention to some of the new potential digital can deliver. When the American presenters rolled into Eaton Theatre at Ryerson University Tuesday for SMPTE Toronto’s meeting on Canada’s upcoming digital television transition, their enthusiasm for the ATSC and ATSC Mobile TV digital television standards was palpable. With the U.S. digital television transition well behind them, speaker Jerry Whitaker, vice president for standards development at ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) reminded everyone that his organization continues to offer grants… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News March 9, 2011 15 years ago

SCTE Canadian Summit: Comcast CTO Werner (a former Rogers engineer) sees cloudy future for media

TORONTO – Peeking through the network clouds, Comcast CTO and executive vice-president Tony Werner has seen the future and it is digital rights management. In a keynote address at the SCTE Canadian Summit Tuesday morning, Werner predicted that “physical media will disappear” by 2020 as “digital assets move to the cloud.” As a result, he said, consumers will largely acquire the rights to use digital media content in certain ways, instead of buying huge computer hard drives, Blu-ray players, and other devices, or building collections of DVDs, CDs, tapes, books, newspapers, and other physical assets. “Life is not about having big… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News March 9, 2011 15 years ago

Rogers spending big to stay ahead of huge network growth. Without that, congestion would overwhelm

TORONTO – The fact that Industry Minister Tony Clement doesn’t see or believe in network congestion should be taken as a point of pride by Rogers, according to its SVP Access Networks, Dermot O’Carroll. During the opening panel session Wednesday morning at the third annual SCTE Canadian Summit, moderator Leslie Ellis, asked O’Carroll asked what he thought of the usage-based billing fracas and about how the Industry Minister (the primary politician who oversees the telecom business in Canada) recently took to Twitter to say he doesn’t believe there is network congestion.

Radio / Television News March 9, 2011 15 years ago

Analog shut-off: Heritage Committee slams digital transition efforts

OTTAWA – Those in charge of the digital television transition have dropped the ball in informing Canadians on the impacts of the change to DTV, said some MPs during The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage meeting this Monday. The Department of Canadian Heritage, which has taken the lead on the digital TV transition file, has set up a web site (www.digitaltelevision.info.gc.ca and www.televisionnumerique.info.gc.ca) and a toll-free number that are supposed to provide Canadians with information on how the transition may affect them. Despite these initial efforts, committee members questioned why a broad public awareness campaign has yet to… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News March 8, 2011 15 years ago

SIRT Centre ramps up training for film, TV professionals

TORONTO – New funding from the Ontario government will help Toronto’s Screen Industries Research and Training Centre (SIRT) to position itself as a regional training facility for film and television, the organization says. Funding from the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC) in addition to partnerships with I.A.T.S.E. 667 (International Cinematographers Guild), the Directors Guild of Canada (Ontario), ACTRA – Toronto, and FilmOntario means that training at the facility will encompass all guilds, unions and associations within the film, television and gaming sectors. "We’re developing new partnerships inspired by OMDC’s funding with both industry groups and academic institutions wanting to collaborate on training for the… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News March 7, 2011 15 years ago

Liberals, NDP, wade into UBB’s muddy waters

OTTAWA – For even more proof on how political the issue of usage-based billing (UBB) has become, one need look no further than at a few press releases that arrived in Cartt.ca’s in box on Monday. The first was from the Liberal party calling on the CRTC “to protect open, affordable Internet access” by expanding the scope of its review of its initial decision on UBB. In the release, Liberal Industry, Science and Technology critic Marc Garneau also encouraged Canadians to sign a petition at a website featuring the title “Don’t give the CRTC a second chance to make the same mistake”,… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News March 7, 2011 15 years ago

Of RFoG and DPoE: Two new cable fibre specs gain approval as industry pushes towards all-fibre nets

DENVER – Looking towards the future, two cable industry standards groups have adopted two different sets of technical specifications aimed at spurring the industry’s deployment of all-fibre networks. In late December, the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) finally approved its Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG) standard after more than two years of discussion and sometimes testy technical debates. The new RFoG specs enable cable operators to extend fibre lines all the way to homes and businesses without needing to switch out their existing headends, back-office systems, set-top boxes, cable modems, or other equipment. As a result, MSOs now have… Continue Reading

Cable / Telecom News March 3, 2011 15 years ago

700 MHz Auction: Wireless newcomers want it all set aside for them; an analysis

“WE’RE AT SUCH A significant spectrum disadvantage, we think government should level the playing field,” says Globalive CEO Tony Lacavera about the wireless auction of 700 MHz spectrum, expected in late 2012. So significant is that disadvantage, the federal government should set aside all of the spectrum and bar any wireless company which holds 800 MHz spectrum (each of the big incumbents, that is) from participating in the 700 auction. “We know we’re making a pretty significant ask here, but on the other hand, the incumbents have incredible swaths of spectrum,” added Lacavera (whose wireless company operates as Wind, of course)… Continue Reading

Radio / Television News March 2, 2011 15 years ago

CMF invests $11.5M in interactive projects

TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) is investing $11.5 million in 36 new interactive projects that were submitted in the second round of its Experimental Stream. The CMF offers financial assistance to support projects at the production, development or marketing stages of their completion. In production, the CMF is investing $8.6 million in 17 new projects, in development, it is investing $1.9 million in 13 projects, and in terms of marketing assistance, it will invest $960,000 in 6 projects. "We’re proud to announce our participation in funding these projects”, said president and CEO Valerie Creighton, in the announcement. “The wealth of content and… Continue Reading

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