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DATE: 10/21/2008
EVENT: Advanced Advertising for Cable: Winning Back the Ad Dollar
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DATE: Monday, October 20, 2008
LOCATION: Hilton New York, New York
EVENT: Ethernet Expo 2008
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DATE: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
LOCATION: Hilton New York, New York
EVENT: Enterprise Day at Ethernet Expo 2008
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DATE: Monday, October 27, 2008
LOCATION: The Westin Dallas Park Central, Dallas
EVENT: Green Telecom: 2008
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DATE: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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DATE: Tuesday, December 02, 2008
LOCATION: The Westin Times Square, New York
EVENT: The Future of Cable Business Services
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Comcast Tunes Up SDV Tuning Adapters
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OCTOBER 8, 2008 - Video management firm will use Plaxo's technology to give its platform better search, discovery, and social recommendation features
TWC Activates ActiveVideo
OCTOBER 8, 2008 - Time Warner's Oceanic division gives ActiveVideo a coveted showcase market for its interactive television platform
Jury Clears Cox in Verizon VOIP Row
OCTOBER 7, 2008 - The MSO is off the hook regarding Verizon's VOIP patents, a decision that may bode well for other cablecos
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OCTOBER 7, 2008 - Dish will pay about $104M to TiVo after the Supreme Court declines to hear the 'Time Warp' patent case
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Telcos Beware: Cable Takes Aim at Targeted Advertising
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BY GRAHAM FINNIE, CHIEF ANALYST
Policy Rules?
OCTOBER 8, 2008
It's time for telcos to take another look at policy tools and realize there is more to policy than policing
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Companies
Alcatel-Lucent (5537), AT&T; (1714), BellSouth (841), BT (1149), Cablevision (420), Cisco (4856), Comcast (1307), Cox Communications (625), Deutsche Telekom (751), eBay (Skype) (329), Ericsson (1382), France Telecom (900), Google (458), Huawei (849), Intel (1114), Juniper (1892), Microsoft (1023), Motorola (1239), Nokia Siemens Networks (2451), Nortel (3742), NTT (117), Siemens (1353), Sprint (1018), Telefonica (382), Time Warner Cable (647), Verizon (2311), Vodafone (465), Yahoo (327)

Broadband
Access equipment (1946), Access technologies (2182), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (354), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (892), Cable TV chips (177), DSL (1924), DSL chips (191), DSLAMs (654), Free-space optics (31), FTTx (1851), Gaming consoles (37), Gaming servers (22), Media adapters (10), Municipal networks (100), PON (988), PON chips (189), Satellite (350), WiMax (776), Wireless LAN (344)

Cable Digital
Cable Modems (350), Cable/MSO equipment (2631), CableLabs (265), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (180), DOCSIS (583), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (125), Head-ends (108), PacketCable (97), QAM (207)

Chips, Components & Subsystems (Sponsored by Intel� Embedded and Communications Alliance)
ASICs & FPGAs (81), ATCA (408), ATM chips (13), Comm chips (2210), Dispersion compensators (144), Lasers (884), Modulators (150), Mux/demuxes (294), Network processors (856), Optical amplifiers (336), Optical channel monitors (90), Optical components (2639), Speciality fiber (77), Switches & OADMs (378), Transceivers (1158), Transmission fiber (408), Variable optical attenuators (138)

Ethernet (Sponsored by Cisco)
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1346), Access devices (231), ATM switches (334), Circuit emulation (18), Converged access (91), Ethernet chips (504), Ethernet equipment (1707), Ethernet over copper (203), Ethernet PONs (142), Ethernet services (1559), Ethernet technologies (445), Multipoint (120), Multiservice edge equipment (128), Multiservice provisioning platforms (608), Multiservice switches (381), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (200), Point-to-point (126), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (124)

IP & Convergence
B-RASs (221), Cell/WLAN (75), Compression equipment (10), Core routers (1179), DNS (50), Edge routers (1502), ENUM (49), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (472), GMPLS (77), IMS (980), IMS Control Layer (27), IMS Service Layer (26), IP equipment (1039), IP software (350), IP technologies (1389), IPv6 (66), Layer 3 VPNs (138), MPLS (680), MPLS (1673), Multicast (29), P2P (234), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (124), QOS (334), SIP (358), Traffic managers (753), Wireline/Wireless (53)

Mobile/Wireless
3G Evolution (139), Carrier WiFi (179), CDMA (3G) (247), Core Network (139), EV-DO (101), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (70), GSM/EDGE (340), HSDPA/HSUPA (272), IMS Core (41), Mobile/Wireless (4876), Packet Core (44), Radio Access Network (184), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (36), Transmission (36), UMTS(3G) (267), Voice Core (20), WiMax (776), Wireless Backhaul (170), Wireless Chips (162), Wireless LAN (344)

Optical Networking
40-Gbit/s transmission (386), Core optical switches (750), CWDM (282), DWDM (1736), Long-haul WDM equipment (559), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1113), Metro WDM equipment (699), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (367), Optical equipment (1703), Optical switches & crossconnects (394), Optical technologies (352), Sonet/SDH (989), Sonet/SDH chips (316), Wavelength services (244)

Security
Anti-virus (27), Denial-of-service attacks (39), Encryption (82), Endpoint security (20), Firewalls (56), Intrusion detection & prevention (38), IPSec VPN (797), Security (1722), SSL VPN (861), URL filtering (11), User authentication (18)

Services Software
Activation (405), Billing systems (656), Content/software downloads (210), Customer relationship management (172), Data Integrity (14), Element management systems (28), Fault management (57), Inventory management (135), Mediation systems (192), Messaging (188), Middleware (45), Mobile location (35), OSS (2199), Performance monitoring (260), Policy control (199), Provisioning (502), Revenue assurance & fraud management (308), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (271), Service management (129), Service-oriented architectures (268), Services (1971), Web gateways (39), Web services (92), XML (48)

Test & Measurement
Access equipment Access test & measurement equipment (114), Comm chips Comm chips test & measurement equipment (29), Ethernet equipment Ethernet test & measurement equipment (131), IP equipment IP test & measurement equipment (95), MPLS MPLS test & measurement equipment (12), Optical components Optical components test & measurement equipment (103), Optical equipment Optical test & measurement equipment (827), OSS OSS test & measurement (1037), Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1585), Test & measurement (1470), VOIP equipment VOIP test & measurement equipment (137)

Video (Sponsored by Ericsson)
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (180), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (559), Content delivery network (CDN) (306), Content protection (181), DVRs (356), Internet Video (438), IPTV (2675), Middleware & business support systems (467), Set-top boxes (1126), Stored video servers (281), TV (2264), Video equipment (2221), Video services (3515), Video software (1129), Videophone (162), VOD (1916)

VOIP
Application servers (161), Centrex (183), Conferencing (68), Contact centers (36), Enhanced voice (26), Enterprise (565), Media gateways (321), Messaging (57), Presence management (36), Residential (648), Session border controllers (364), Signaling gateways (90), Softswitches (1036), VOIP chips (151), VOIP equipment (3241), VOIP services (3532), VOIP software (555), VOIP VPNs (23), Wholesale (212)

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