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The Technology Behind Baseball on Opening Day

Here’s how the game goes from field to screen. Spring is in full swing, which means one thing: baseball is back. — And it’ll be with us through the fall; over the coming months each team will battle it out over 162 games, which equates to roughly 7,300 hours of play — plus playoffs. While you might be suitably psyched
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Online Video Rides Mobile Tidal Wave

TV Everywhere has expanded the video experience to any screen, at any time, and anywhere. And mobile online video viewing in particular is leading the way. Adobe’s recently released U.S. Digital Video 2014 Inaugural Report captures this fascinating online video trend. When it comes to authenticated video, which includes online apps and websites that require a cable subscription login, almost
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Comcast Ups Cable’s Gigabit Parade

Cable’s plan to deliver gigabit broadband speeds to residential customers has been in the formative stages for years as improved technology is making wide-scale deployment more possible. But even before the next generation software platform known as Gigasphere is market ready, several cable operators are pushing ahead with significant gigabit offerings. Last year Brighthouse announced it would be bringing gigabit
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INTX 2015 Exhibitor Spotlight

INTX 2015 is hosting some of the biggest, brightest names in the Internet and television industry today. But what makes INTX especially unique is the small, emerging businesses that have the great ideas of tomorrow. We had the chance to speak with three of these exhibitors, ContentWise, DOGTV and Gone Viral TV, about what they bring to the TV and
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Statement of NCTA Regarding Committee Approval of Protecting Cyber Networks Act

“NCTA commends the House Select Committee on Intelligence for its action marking up the bipartisan Protecting Cyber Networks Act (H.R. 1560). This action marks another step forward in our collective efforts to improve America’s cyber readiness by sharing threat indicators. Chairman Nunes and Ranking Member Schiff, with Subcommittee Chairman Westmoreland and Ranking Member Himes, have worked to advance a bill
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Correcting the FCC's Puzzling Comments on Pole Attachments

The adoption of the Open Internet Order has triggered much discussion about one of our favorite topics – pole attachments. As this is one of the most arcane topics within the FCC’s jurisdiction, it is not surprising that the public discourse is not always entirely accurate. We want to set the record straight. Cable has advocated for low pole attachments
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Will the FCC Play Games with the National Broadband Map?

This week’s release of the final version of the National Broadband Map is a milestone. Beginning with funding from the 2009 stimulus bill, NTIA – a part of the Commerce Department – has supervised the collection of state broadband data and published the results twice a year. NTIA deserves credit for successfully managing this first-of-its-kind project, which generally has proven
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Behind The Numbers: Growth in the Internet of Things

The Internet isn’t merely developing, it’s exploding, and the numbers prove it. Take a look at our graphic below — it shows the advancing surge of connected devices using the Internet. And today, there are more connected devices than there are human beings on the planet. This expansion isn’t just from cell phones, tablets and computers – it’s thanks to
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Cybersecurity Achieves a New Milestone

Two weeks ago we highlighted the cable industry’s continuing commitment to cybersecurity. This ongoing work reached a new milestone yesterday with the adoption of the communications sector’s ground-breaking report on Cybersecurity Risk Management and Best Practices by the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC). With the participation of over 100 subject matter experts from the cable, wireline, wireless,
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Statement of NCTA Regarding Committee Passage of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act

“NCTA commends the members of the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence for passage of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S. 754) in a strong bipartisan 14-1 vote. The release and introduction of the bill yesterday marks an important step forward in our collective efforts to improve our nation’s cyber readiness and share critical information on evolving cyber threat indicators. The
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