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What message is one sup-posed to derive from a once-stodgy industry, celebrating its real successes in keeping current, opening its big annual show with a rapper who last saw the pop charts 22 years ago?

Then again, maybe you can just take Hammer performing “2 Legit 2 Quit” at face value…

Shortly after Hammer quit, NCTA president Michael Powell took the stage to extol the virtues of cable, backed by video sequences – nicely synchronized with points in his speech – that included a cav-

alry charge, beaming children, and Ol’ Glory waving in the breeze. If there was a slice of apple pie, we missed it. On the

other hand, one of those wom-en in one of those images was certainly somebody’s mom.

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Broadcom is introduc-ing a headless video gateway IC that can be used to power boxes that can deliver both IP and QAM video.

While larger MSOs are collaborating on map-ping out a path toward a converged network that serves a variety of cus-tomer premise equipment (CPE) that can range from simple, inexpensive one-way DTAs to complex and expensive gateways, middle-tier and smaller cable operators lack the resources – and perhaps even the need – for such sophisticated plans.

Meanwhile, a hybrid de-vice delivering both QAM and IP could provide a path towards two-way IPTV that can be taken advantage of when the need arises.

As Broadcom points out, its new, single die IP/QAM solution, the BCM3385, allows cable operators to transition to an all IP video network at their own pace with a single, unifying software

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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: (from left to right) CNN’s Jake Tapper with Roku GM of content and Services Steve Shannon, Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge, Twitter COO Ali Rowghani, Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman, and Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff.

Arris execs speak about Moto integrationExcutives from Arris pro-

vided insight into the integra-tion of Motorola into the com-pany’s product line and overall vision during a press briefing at The Cable Show on Monday.

After showing off its wares at the Anga Show last week, the Cable Show marked the first time in the United States for Arris to show how it has ex-ecuted on its vision for blend-ing the former Motorola Home product lines into its own.

“We’re real excited,” said Ar-

ris’ Bruce McClelland, president, network and cloud, global servic-es. “This is kind of our coming out party in some ways for the new company together. We’re a little less than 60 days into putting the companies together. There’s a lot of enthusiasm within the employee population to move forward as a combined

company and a lot of enthusiam from customers as well.”

McClelland said Arris was focused on enabling video on multi-screens, the migration to IP networks and the connected home experience.

On the cable modem teri-mation system (CMTS) front, Arris still sees its E6000 Con-verged Edge Router (CER) as its flagship, but will continue to support the former Motor-ola BSR and Arris C4 CMTS

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Cox Communications and Cisco have taken the cable industry’s converged cable access platform (CCAP) for a test-drive in two trials.

In addition to Cox, Com-cast and Time Warner Cable have also kicked the tires on CCAP, which will eventually combine edge QAMs and cable modem termination systems into one ultra-dense platform.

Cisco’s Mark Palazzo, vice president and general manager of the company’s cable access business unit, wrote about the trials in his blog.

“For what was phase one, we suggested that service

providers begin combining video and data QAMs,” Pala-zzo wrote. “That’s easy to say until you start running out of rack space. We quelled those concerns with our (then-new) high-density, universal edge QAM — the RF Gateway-10 (RFGW-10). Fully loaded with ten 8-port DS384 card (128 QAMs per port), it supports over 10,000 QAMs per chassis – or 160 Gigabits per second.

“This year, we’re deep into phase 2, and current events in CCAP are about continued scale and market momentum. On the scale front, and since last year’s Cable Show, we doubled downstream capacity,

and quadrupled upstream ca-pacity. Cox Communications completed two CCAP trials with us, involving the 3G SPA and the PRE5. Its plan is to combine our new CMTS modules and high-den-sity DS384 line cards in the RFGW-10, so as to double downstream capacity, and to simultaneously quadruple wide area network backhaul capacity, all in the existing (uBR10012) chassis.”

While Cox’s trials involved a modular approach, Cisco also has its fully integrated cBR-8 in the works. At last year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, Cisco showed the cBR-8 in a

whisper suite, which is also where it resides at this week’s Cable Show. n

Comcast announced today that it has launched Xfinity Home Control, which allows subscribers to remotely adjust thermostats or lighting without the professional security monitoring that is offered with other Xfinity Home services, which are now called Xfinity Home Secure.

Xfinity Home Control provides customers with the ability to get real-time text and email alerts when doors and windows open or close; watch live streaming video of their home via wireless cameras; and manage home devices including lights and thermo-stats remotely or by using automated schedules.

Comcast is offering Xfinity Home Control service starting at only $9.95 per month. A “starter pack” of Xfinity Home Control monitoring equipment is available starting at $99.95.

“The home control market is grow-ing tremendously, and it’s being driven by innovative technology, affordability and consumer demand,” said Mitch

Bowling, senior vice president and general manager of new businesses for Comcast Cable. “With the launch of Xfinity Home Control, we’re adding yet another way customers can re-motely manage their homes anywhere and at anytime.”

Xfinity Home was first launched in Houston three years ago and has been rolled out across Comcast’s footprint.

Comcast also officially announced EcoSaver today, which is a cloud-

based offering that can help custom-ers potentially reduce their energy use and save money on their utility bills year-round.

The EcoSaver service, paired with the Xfinity Home thermostat, learns the unique heating and cooling pat-terns of a home and makes automatic and incremental adjustments to the thermostat based on real-time weather data, the thermal characteristics of the house and the temperature preferenc-es of the occupants. The homeowner maintains full control over the ther-mostat. Over time, the system adapts to user inputs to help reduce energy while keeping the home comfortable.

Earlier this year, EcoFactor won an award from GTM Research for its work with Comcast’s Xfinity Home service.

Last week, Comcast and Osram Sylvania announced an agreement to offer energy efficient light bulbs that can be controlled remotely from anywhere through the Xfinity Home platform. n

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LG debuts line of “Smart” set-top boxesLG Electronics has intro-

duced a line of what it’s calling smart set-top boxes (STBs), a set of IP boxes that can be used to deliver live, linear TV programming as well as over-the-top (OTT) services.

LG’s Google TV based IPTV STB supports services including live TV, VOD, a Chrome web browser and ac-cess to the Google Play store. The LG IPTV STB can run any HD media application de-veloped for the Android plat-form. The system has the built-in phone to TV and second TV content sharing capabilities, the television can continue to be the center of media in the home, displaying streaming content directly from other devices on the home network.

The box comes with its own

graphical user interface (GUI) which includes features such as the smart channel guide and a screen for controlling a home automation, monitoring and control system.

LG’s DLNA compliant NetCast OTT box enables advanced media sharing capa-bilities; remote management, and the ability to connect to a home video gateway in order to receive terrestrial or Pay TV programming and VOD.

The company has also cre-ated an Ultra HD set-top box, in advance of 4K content becom-ing available, and an IP STB runs OpenTV 5 middleware, supports progressive download and adaptive streaming, and also features Nagra conditional ac-cess, and wireless connectivity.

Yet another product in the

line is described by LG as a low-cost MPEG 4 cable STB with downloadable conditional access security, 256 QAM, 64 QAM and 8 VSB modulation.

Finally, LG has a new Wi-Fi dongle that allows users with Miracast smartphones to easily mirror the phone’s screen di-rectly onto the big-screen TV, using only a Wi-Fi connection.

LG is at the Cable Show showing premium cable ser-vices on LG Smart TVs and smartphones, including a demonstration of a catch-up TV service from Rogers Any-place TV that includes a user interface optimized for the intuitive LG Magic Remote, “HBO GO” video-on-demand on the TV using a Miracast smartphone, and home moni-toring/control that leverages

the largest display in the home to check security cameras and adjust lighting.

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Espial will be showing the features of the Espial STB Client during dem-onstrations at The Cable Show this week.

The client, which is based on Comcast’s Refer-ence Design Kit (RDK), is a middleware and toolset solution that leverages HM-TML5 and open Web stan-dards. The demonstration will highlight an advanced user experience on set-top boxes (STBs) based on HTML5 3D capabilities.

“As a strong proponent of open standards, Espial leads the industry in deliver-ing a STB user experience based on RDK and HTML5,” said Kirk Edwardson, direc-tor of marketing at Espial. “By extending the capabili-ties of RDK with high-per-formance video applications and advanced HTML5 3D effects, MSOs can deliver a compelling and captivating STB user experience for IP video services.”

The Comcast RDK was designed to cut down on the time it takes to innovate on set-top boxes, gateways and other consumer electronic devices in customers’ homes.

Highlights of the demon-stration include an HTML5 electronic program guide, video-on-demand wall, multi-screen place shifting, favorites, and video and social media apps. Leveraging the Espial STB Client, cable oper-ators can easily and efficiently deliver blended Web and TV services to customers. n

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Quantenna Communications bows 802.11ac chip for cable operators

Wi-Fi chip vendor Quantenna Communications announced that its 4x4 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions, which can be used in home gateways by cable operators, are now supported by Intel Puma 6 reference designs.

Using Wave 2 MU-MIMO chipsets, Quantenna delivers a fast and reliable wireless streaming of bandwidth-intensive data, such as video content, throughout the home to multiple devices. Products based on Quantenna’s 11ac Wi-Fi solution will also act as an open access point that interoperates with all third-party clients, such as laptops, tablets and smartphones.

“Quantenna’s 4x4 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology is rapidly emerging as a primary

way to deliver pay TV and broadband services to multi-room deployments. Our 4x4 solutions are successfully deployed with many major service providers worldwide due to the wire-like quality and whole-home coverage they deliver. Our signal reaches farther, transmits faster and stays steadier than any other available solution,” said Dr. Sam Heidari, CEO at Quantenna. “We are delighted to be bringing the same quality to the cable MSOs for their video deployments and multimedia gateways by enabling the Intel Puma 6-based Video Gateway platforms with this technology.”

Quantenna’s 4x4 solutions work with all third party clients

and any consumer devices in any MIMO configuration, in addition to being future proof by being Wave 2 ready.

“The cable industry is adding wireless streaming of video and content throughout the whole home,” said Ran Senderovitz, general manager, Intel Service Provider Solutions. “Quantenna’s 802.11ac solution integrated with Intel’s Puma 6 MG DOCSIS Video Gateway platform will enable OEMs to differentiate their platforms, and allow cable operators to improve the TV viewing experience on Intel-based devices such as Ultrabook computers, all-in-one PCs, smartphones and tablets.” n

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Sigma Systems enables Cable Bahamas’ VoIPCable Bahamas has tapped Sigma Systems

to help provision its residential voice services throughout Nassau, Grand Bahamas, Abaco and Eleuthera.

Cable Bahamas is using Sigma Systems’ service fulfillment solutions to automate the provisioning of its SIP-based residential VoIP service.

The platform allows Cable Bahamas to configure and activate the telephony switching platform, voicemail system and numerous device types that subscribers use for their VoIP service.

“Sigma has been critical to the rapid and successful launch of our residential VoIP services,” said Blaine Schafer, vice president, information technology and telecom services at Cable Bahamas. “With Sigma, we have been able to easily introduce new service tiers, expand our regional roll outs, and ensure error-free, automated provisioning for subscribers. The ability to quickly automate our VoIP service fulfillment will help us to maintain our margins for these services, while reducing any service

interruptions for our customers.”Sigma enables a distributed architecture with

centralized management, operation and storage of all configuration, operational and subscriber and device information. It integrates with an operator’s existing OSS and BSS systems, via a single API for provisioning, monitoring and querying. It supports TR69, DOCSIS, PacketCable, OMA-DM and other leading protocols and standards such as support for proprietary SIP devices.

“Cable Bahamas is indeed one of the most technologically advanced broadband providers today,” said Alejandro Couce, Caribbean and Latin America head of region at Sigma Systems. “The company has responded quickly to their consumers’ demands for new, innovative and affordable services. Sigma’s catalog-driven OSS solutions allow them to accelerate and automate the fulfillment of new services, and to expand and add services over time, while maintaining low operational costs.” n

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RGB showcases TVE platformsRGB Networks is showing

its TV Everywhere offerings that deliver premium live and on-demand IP video services to multiple screens, while also enabling monetization of these services through ad insertion and other value-added offerings.

Consisting of several next-generation products for live, on-demand and time-shifted delivery, RGB’s “Multiscreen 2.0’ help cable operators expand and streamline their TV Everywhere deployments, while generating new revenues. The new Video Multiprocessing Gateway Gen 2 and Ad Insertion for Multiscreen (AIM) solution are two key components of RGB’s second-generation offerings that will be

highlighted at the show.“Cable operators are eager

to expand their successful TV Everywhere deployments and to leverage all these new screens to generate new revenues. At The Cable Show we will highlight how they can use RGB’s Multiscreen 2.0 solutions do just this,” said Simone Sassoli, vice president, product marketing and business development for RGB Networks. “Targeted advertising has long been on cable operators’ wish lists and RGB’s AIM solution

makes this dream a reality. “Integrated with our

second generation VMG platform, operators now have the transcoding and adaptive streaming scale and capabilities they require to see a return on their multi-screen investment.”

The Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) Gen 2 is a carrier class transcoding platform features high-density real-time transcoding, which doubles that of RGB’s original VMG. n

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interface supporting DOCSIS, voice, routing and legacy set-top box applications.

OEMs can use the chip to create a hybrid video gateway with com-bined 32x8 channel bond-ing, DOCSIS wireless voice gateway, and com-plete set-top box video functionality, including real-time hardware quad transcoding.

Set-top box functional-ity includes advanced de-coder with HEVC (H.265) which enables UltraHD (4k) video.

Networking options include a gigabit Ethernet switch, MoCA 2.0 and dual-band concurrent 5G WiFi connectivity. n

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We’re in Washington, D.C., and the point was to remind political critters in the audience that cable has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the past two decades, blazed the path for broadband – the platform for so much business innovation and consumer opportunity, and regulators ought to keep a light touch.

Next up was a panel that included CNN anchor and session moderator Jake Tap-per, Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge, and a clutch of top executives from agile new companies that are perceived as disrupting com-munications and entertain-ment industry models in one way or or another.

Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff, Jawbone CEO Ho-sain Rahman, Twitter COO Ali Rowghani, and Roku GM of content and Services Steve Shannon, were all quite en-thusiastic about being comple-ments to the cable industry, With Rowghani talking about projects to integrate Twitter with TV, Shannon noting that 70 percent of Roku users kept a cable connection, and Rahman referring to collaborations with Comcast. Bankoff looked a bit uncomfortable saying so, but he said that Vox Media could be a

complement to cable. With Tapper playing

provocateur, all allowed that they’d prefer it if the cable industry could move faster.

Bankoff took the oppor-tunity to provide a little mini-lecture on how cable could learn from Silicon Valley’s approach of agile manufactur-ing: try things out, and if you make a mistake, fix it. Rah-man piled on: if things fail, let them fail quickly, move on quickly, see what sticks, then figure out how to monetize it.

“Have a willingness to fail,” Blankoff responded.

Rutledge reminded that cable is spending billions of dollars a year on technology, and though he allowed he’d like to move faster, he noted – in what might have been a not-so-subtle dig back at the other panelists, “it’s amazing how quickly new capacity gets filled with applications.”

Rutledge then turned it around, cautioning program-mers “anything that you put anywhere is going to end up on any screen, and you can’t control it. There’s no way to control where you content goes ultimately, and if you think you can segregate where it goes by calling this the Inter-net and this the TV, somebody will build a box that will dis-abuse you of that notion.” n

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Azuki Systems has revised its video platform so that it can deliver not only to secondary screens – tablets, smartphones, and the like, but now it can deliver directly to main television screens.

In addition to enabling a migration from QAM (quadrature amplitude modu-lation) to IP video, this new facility in the Azuki Media Platform 4.0 gives service providers the ability to en-able collaboration among all screens, paving the way for personalized services.

Azuki is calling the combi-nation its MSO Solution, the ability for cable operators to reclaim QAM bandwidth and boost advanced services, while reducing video delivery costs and offering TV Everywhere services to new and existing subscribers.

MSOs can use the Azuki Media Platform to deliver lin-ear TV (both SD and HD) by edge-based adaptive bitrate (ABR) unicasting, distributed over the network only when requested, enabling an expan-sion from 80 HD channels to over 500 HD channels.

The company’s MSO Solu-tion also assumes the use of

either an IP-based set-top box or a hybrid STB to de-liver cloud-based time-shifted TV services on any channel. Azuki estimates that operators can reduce consumer premise equipment costs by 60- to 80 percent by using IP video, largely by eliminating the need for multiple tuners and CableCards.

The Azuki Media Platform is a server-based system that operators can install in their own datacenters or have hosted. Azuki said it employs virtualization techniques to automatically adapt to any back-office system, provision-ing system, video delivery network and device to ensure maximum compatibility with existing infrastructure.

Personalized TV experi-ences include: time-shifting on any device, start-over TV, catch-up TV, network DVR, multi-screen collaboration, companion remote (consum-ers can control content on the set-top box – browse channels, find and select what to watch, when and where – without disrupting viewing on the main screen), multi-screen entitlements, and more. n

Azuki Systems unveils MSO Solution

Concurrent software manages VOD / CDN storageConcurrent has developed a video

archiving system that matches the popu-larity of any given video asset to the most cost-efficient storage option available as that asset waxes and wanes in popularity.

The company said an unidentified major customer is testing the product, a software element of Concurrent’s Media-Hawk video processing platform.

As service providers extend the num-ber of titles accessible to consumers for

playback on any device and launch new applications like network DVR (nDVR), there is an increased need for large capac-ity video storage libraries, the company noted. The goal associated with storing all of that on-demand and time-shifted video content is to minimize storage costs.

Throughout a content asset’s life-cycle, its consumer viewing profile may vary from high demand to low demand depending on its release or record date,

inclusion in marketing promotions, or a multitude of other factors, Concurrent said. The company’s software is designed to follow business rules to reposition content assets over time as changes in the viewing profile occur.

As a content asset’s demand profile de-creases, it will be automatically transferred to low cost, high density storage systems to make room for more popular content on higher performance storage tiers. n

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Combined, Motorola and Arris have seven differ-ent QAM platforms, which McClellan said Arris would continue to support as long as its customers bought them. Arris sees the former Motorola Apex 3000 Edge QAM as a leading platform going forward.

“QAMs are a sticky platform and companies tend not to want to change them,” he said.

On the customer premise front, Arris executives said the combination of its Moxi gateways and DreamGallery, which was part of Motorola’s Medios platform, provided the best of both worlds for customers’ home networks and second-screen devices.

Using HTML5, Dream-Gallery allows cable opera-tors to render rich user in-terfaces in the cloud that can be displayed on legacy set-to boxes as far back as the 2003-2004 era. With Moxi the gateway architecture can reformat and deliver signals

to devices around the home, as well as serve up apps to subscribers.

In January, Shaw Com-munications delivered its new UI over both the Moxi and DreamGallery systems. Arris’ John Burke, senior vice president corporate strategy and development; president converged solu-tions, said that eventually the Moxi features would be de-ployed via DreamGallery to devices as Arris moves from hardware to software-based initiatives.

When asked whether there was more momentum for headed or headless gate-ways, Arris executives said there was no simple answer. Whether cable operators picked a headed or head-less gateway could depend on the number of triple play or double play subscribers they served. Larry Robinson, president, customer premises equipment, said how net-works evolve, with DOCSIS densities included, would determine configurations, but there currently was no right answer between the two. n

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Comcast’s Reference Design Kit (RDK) is one of the hot topics at The Cable Show and itaas is showing its development, integration, testing and support capabilities for the RDK.

The main demonstration is a home network leveraging the RDK with a media gateway connected to an IP client box and controlled by a tablet. With this type of application consumers can stream video from the media gateway to multiple devices including a tablet for viewing and control of channel tuning and DVR. Itaas is also supplying information on its RDK training and support program that is available to all RDK licensees.

Itaas is also showing the Time Warner Cable IntelligentHome application running on an Internet connected TV. Itaas provided the smart TV expertise in porting this application and will be demonstrating control of security, remote cameras and lights via the TV remote and the Intelligent-Home system.

Itaas has also taken the wraps off of a standalone environment, which is called the Hardware Development Platform (HDP), that provides a way to develop, test, and demonstrate RDK applications. Using the HDP, RDK licensees can work on RDK-based solutions without the need for extensive headend infrastructure. This solution combines a media gateway with software developed by itaas that provides access to the RDK functionality including access to audio/video content.

“Many developers do not want to invest in a complicated headend or test equipment in order to develop new solutions,” said Jatin Desai, CTO of itaas. “This platform allows RDK licensees to get started on RDK development projects quickly and provides a faster, simpler way to validate functionality and demonstrate new solutions.” n

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Building a viable business model for TV Everywhere is a tedious and complicated pro-cess, with authentication and measurement issues the leading prerequisites.

That was the conventional wisdom shared by panelists during Monday’s Au-thenticate Me, Baby: Consumer Behavior in the TV Everywhere Era session.

“Content is out there on multiple devices, and the value is making sure people have ac-cess to content and that the measurement of views has currency. We can’t stick our heads in the sand,” cautioned Mike Biard, EVP of distribution for Fox Networks.

The cable industry, along with its pro-gramming and advertising partners, may not have a choice but to foster the growth of content across multiple platforms, said Ron Lamprecht, EVP of digital distribu-tion for NBC Universal.

“Consumers expect to see content ev-erywhere and we’re simply following our consumers. We have no choice. We must

be in it.”Being in it means developing a work-

able means of authenticating and measur-ing audiences and who gets paid for what, which lies at the heart of issue.

“TV Everywhere has always been re-ferred to as a product, but it’s a process and moves independently. iPad, Xbox and oth-ers have complementary business models, so we must work within their eco-systems. But authentication is new and it’s very hard,” said Jeremy Legg, SVP of business development and multiplatform distribu-tion for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Hard or not, the risk will be worth it, explained Marcien Jenckes, SVP and GM of video services for Comcast Cable.

“Ubiquity of content and authentica-tion across the board are very important so we have to take the risk and offer the multiple platform experience.”

Digital rights are part of the TV Every-where equation as well. Added Jenckes:

“Rights are very multi-tiered and some content providers don’t have rights to some content. But we’re closer than we’ve ever been to delivering a full experience and to critical mass.”

The advertising piece to the model re-mains a puzzle, however, with the ad indus-try having to make some hard decisions.

“Now the ad industry is having to make decisions on how ads are bought and sold—digital or linear,” Legg noted.

And the technology? “We’re not fully in control of the technology. There are too many devices and we don’t control the full path. So it’s up to programmers and dis-tributors to come up with the technology, and that will take time,” Lemprecht said.

In the meantime, the stakes are rising, concluded Rob Thun, EVP of business operations for Univision Communications.

“These are table stakes down the road. There’s not a direct ROI for TV Everywhere yet, but we know we need to be there.” n

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Alticast paves the road to all IP

Alticast will be demonstrating prod-ucts at The Cable Show that enable cable operators’ transition to all-IP ar-chitectures.

Alticast will be showcasing IP migra-tion paths, downloadable and executable (D&E) conditional access and digital rights management (CAS/DRM), inno-vative user interface designs, companion applications and several IP set-top boxes based on the Comcast Reference Design Kit (RDK) software platform.

Alticast’s AltiProtec D&E is a down-loadable conditional access product that provides operators the flexibility to use a variety of CAS solutions from various vendors thus replacing embed-ded as well as CableCard-based security. AltiProtect DRM extends the same level of protection and flexibility for multi-screen devices.

Alticast will show several IP set top boxes based on RDK and featur-ing Alticast’s Application Framework technology. These boxes will highlight several cable operator user interfaces. The RDK was designed to provide the industry with a single software platform in order to shorten development cycles and deliver new economies of scale, as it enables new services and additional rev-enue streams. n

Alticast is located in booth 1803.

Envivio displays TV Anytime featuresEnvivio has a full slate at The Cable

Show. The company’s solution for TV Anytime features time-shifted TV, net-work DVR, catch-up, start-over and ad insertion on any screen. This demonstra-tion will be show at both at Imagine Park and in Envivio’s booth.

Envivio has been selected to pres-ent at the Imagine Park showcase, in the “Internet of Everything” session today at 2:45 p.m. The company will demonstrate a high quality connected TV experience that offers HD video quality better than tradi-tional MPEG-2 technologies, while signifi-cantly lowering bandwidth requirements.

Envivio said its software-based ap-proach enabled cloud TV, reduces infra-structure investments and facilitates up-grades to advanced formats such as HEVC (H.265) encoding and 4K Ultra HD TV.

Envivio’s compression and video pro-cessing solutions will also be featured as part of Sequencia’s private cloud demon-stration in booth 1645.

“Envivio offers unique software-based encoding and video delivery solutions, sup-porting everything from enhanced MPEG-2 TV services to next generation HEVC and network DVR on any screen,” said Arnaud Perrier, vice president of solutions marketing at Envivio. “The Cable Show is an important forum for us to showcase our innovative products and meet with leading North American cable operators.” n

Envivio is located in booth 600 at CableNet.

Si, Willie and Phil Robertson from A&E Networks’ “Duck Dynasty” helped open the 2013 Cable Show, appearing in a video in which they persuaded A&E CEO Abbe Raven and Cox Communications CEO Pat Esser to personally hook them up with cable service – “and maybe one o’ them black box-es?” Raven and Esser are the Convention Committee co-chairs.

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