cptmilesPremium
join:2004-04-22
Swayzee, IN | Standards I own a small cable company in Indiana (300 subs) along with a telephone and Internet company. I have IPTV via FTTH and ADSL2+ experience in a former life. I paid a consultant a lot of money to come in and help me make some service plans and one of the partners made a point to me that has really stuck.
If you know anything about old world telephony and the days of Belcore and Bell labs you know that the traditional telephone companies know how to do voice. It has been perfected, if you will, from years of experience and R&D.
Well, cable has done the same thing with video.
I believe that unless the big cable companies begin to use IP technology to deliver video for their main feeds, IPTV will never be more than glimmer of hope to succeed. RF, QAM, and any other video delivery system has been perfected by the big cable co's. They combined forces and employed Motorola, Scientific Atlanta, and other vendors to produce a product that works for all of them, not dissimilar to what the telcos did in the early years.
They know that IPTV is the future, but they also know that this may be the only way the telco's can compete with them on a large scale (Verizon is using cable co technology), thus they are in no hurry to perfect the product. If the telco's ever want this to work they should consider joining forces on at least an old Belcore mentality.
Otherwise it will be a long, arduous and expensive journey for all of us. | |
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  jgkoltPremium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH | Re: Standards well if that is true (sounds pretty good) what if fios and uverse get a good foothold, will the cable companys be scrambling to keep up?
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 |  elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | Re: Standards atlest here in Mediacom land ATT is the one playing catchup
with 15/1 and a good HD line up ATT is pwned | |
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| | jgkoltPremium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH | Re: Standards yeah in internet speeds att is playing catch-up here but the dsl has reliable(ly slow) speeds that don't fluctuate like my time warner internet does. My time warner internet speed fluctuates from 15 mbps to 831k. Usually around 1 or 2 down when it should be at least 10mbps up to 15.
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join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | Re: Standards well since Mediacom split the node im on speeds here are 14-15Mbps all the time and word is there upping speeds this spring to 20/2  | |
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| | | | | That's why I dropped Time Warner. I was supposed to be getting 8 Mb, but once the evening time rolled around, I'd be lucky to get even 1 Mb. Unfortunately, AT&T only offers 3 Mb DSL to my place and I'm not holdnig my breath for anything faster anytime soon. And certainly nothing to rival FIOS. | |
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| | | No really IPTV is fiber to the node, which cable co's have been doing it for years now.
verizon is the innovator in todays market. i give them that | |
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| | | | Re: Standards Cable companies don't use IPTV. FTTN is a generic term...and if yoiu wanted to be technical then the phone companies have been doing that since MUXs came out. | |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Telco/Cable companies don't have a reason to make perfect products anymore. They need something that is "good enough" to prevent a mass exodus of customers to the competitor. Since most consumer's choice is Cable or Satellite, and if they are lucky, Telco TV. Any of those 3 have little incentive to do any serious upgrading. Digital cable still has crashing boxes 7 years later and anytime it rains in the picture MPEG compression turns it into 56K streaming video. Everyone says OTA HD is better than satellite and cable. Guess why? Satellite and cable don't need to do any better to keep the majority of their customers. A PR/Ad/smear campaign will always be more effective in getting customers than any capitol upgrades, since most people don't and cant see a difference. None of the 3 will upgrade drastically, since the longer they put off upgrades, the more profit they see. | |
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