The ARRIS Story: Taking Flight

Posted by on Sep 20, 2021 Back in the fall of 2019, a friend from the cable industry approached me with a very big writing project. The mission? Helping two executives tell the story of their company. The friend was Lela Corcoros; the two execs were Bob Stanzione and Dave Potts; and the company was ARRIS. Fast forward to today. Finally, the book is out. Across 18 chapters, we recount the fascinating history of ARRIS,...
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Achieve Low Latency with M-ABR and Chunked CMAF

Posted by on Jun 26, 2019 In a paper I wrote earlier this year, I addressed a dilemma facing OTT video service providers. Namely: Demand for live streaming is growing, yet so is aversion to “live” video compromised by high latency. The sponsors of this paper were video delivery solutions provider Broadpeak and THEO Technologies, developer of a universal video player. The technologies they recommend can...
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What Makes Craft Beer and Tech a Good Fit?

Posted by on Jun 20, 2019 Craft beer is on the agenda at the Richmond Technology Council (aka RVATech). This year the regional business association began billing its “Tech on Tap” events as a part of a “brewery tour.” The third of four separate events was held June 19 (Juneteenth!) at Väsen Brewing Company. The sponsor: Dynatrace, a global company specializing in application performance monitoring and enterprise cloud...
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Blockchain: Beyond Hype and Toward Wider Use

Posted by on Feb 5, 2019 Over the past year, blockchain began coming into its own. It remains the foundation of digital currencies, but is now more widely diffused, independent and less subject to inflated expectations than it was at the start of 2018. Many industries are now looking into the distributed ledger technologies once exclusively associated with cryptocurrency. In a lecture I heard last April sponsored by...
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5 Ways DOCSIS Networks are Changing

Posted by on Nov 14, 2018 The cable industry’s DOCSIS networks are again in transition. A panel organized by Broadband Technology Report on Wed, Oct. 24, at this year’s SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo captured several impending changes. One reason for these options is the flexibility of DOCSIS, which has already undergone considerable evolution. Another is the stability of DOCSIS 3.1, the latest version. “It’s worked better...
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CBRS: The 3.5 GHz Wireless Revival

Posted by on Nov 10, 2018 At trade shows it is now common for scheduled talks occur on the show floor. At the year’s SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in Atlanta Ga, on Tues., Oct 23, the floor-based Innovation Theater featured execs from ARRIS and ARRIS subsidiary Ruckus Wireless for a discussion of 3.5 GHz band Citizens Band Radio Service (CBRS). Expo organizers named this session “CBRS: The Future is Here.” And this future...
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