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September 29, 2016

EDUCATION

How Digital Collaboration Technology is Transforming Education

Contemporary education systems face a range of challenges, including delivering on their equity commitments and ensuring that all students regardless of location or socio-economic status have access to a high quality education.  While governments have invested in a range of proactive initiatives to…

September 28, 2016

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Upskill U on Gigabit & the Great Migration

Submitted by Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, the Editor of Upskill U at Light Reading While the number of gigabit broadband deployments are rapidly increasing, service providers continue to face growing challenges in identifying the right architectures to support advanced networks, how to migrate from legacy…

September 28, 2016

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Multimedia Millennials: Cable operators offer more apps and streaming services to young consumers

According to Pew Research, one-in-seven Americans are television “cord cutters”, Millennials’ (18 – 34 year olds) are leading the way in bypassing traditional TV viewing with video streaming services, leading to a generation of cord cutters and cord nevers. According to new research from The D…

September 28, 2016

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If Video Monitoring & the CCAP Transition Are On Your Cable-Tec Expo Shopping List…

By Daniel Etman, Director of Product Management, Cable Access Business, Cisco We go into this year’s SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo with considerable momentum in the industrial transition to CCAP (or, the Converged Cable Access Platform) — and as trials and deployments get underway, we continue to b…

September 27, 2016

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Why Ron Hranac is the Standard of Excellence

By Sean Welch, vice president and general manager, Cable Access BU, Cisco It wouldn’t be a Cable-Tec Expo without our own Ron Hranac parading a convention badge with a trail of award ribbons cascading nearly to his knees. After all, he’s been a (very) active SCTE member since 1979, and is a self-dia…

September 23, 2016

HEALTHCARE

A Modern Approach to Patient Sitting

Studies show that up to 15% of patients may fall one or more times during their hospital stay – with some incurring a serious injury. Traditionally, 1/1 patient sitters have been used to help prevent falls and alleviate the risk of patient roaming.  While this is a viable, albeit costly, solution, i…

September 22, 2016

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Full Duplex DOCSIS®: Near Fiber Optic Capacity with Coax Cable

Some people think coax cable is past its prime and can’t keep up with fiber, but that’s not true. This past August at the CableLabs Summer Conference, Cisco unveiled a new silicon reference design for Full Duplex DOCSIS® technology which can deliver near fiber optic capacity over an existing cable p…

September 20, 2016

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We Won!

Written by Christelle Gental  IBC 2016 treated us with the hottest weather in 20 years – and with the prize for the Best Stand Design in its size category – described as providing an ‘inviting, stunning and fresh approach’! What a wonderful surprise and amazing reward for the team who worked hard fo…

September 19, 2016

EDUCATION

Universidad EAFIT: Transforming Educational Experiences

Universidad EAFIT was at a pivotal network point. Faculty wanted the ability to use new, and more demanding applications including video content. Pervasive wireless access had become a necessity for an enriched student experience. EAFIT took this opportunity to refresh the network to empower educato…