Tapping the Braintrust: cable's ctos speak out on interactive TV, advanced services rollouts

摘要

The cable industry's chief technologists are under immense pressure to lay the foundation that will allow their companies to roll out myriad new services, including digital TV, interactive services, high-speed data and telephony. But as deployments move ever closer, new issues and obstacles crop up. CED Editorial Director Roger Brown, Multichannel News Technology Editor Jeff Baumgartner and industry analyst Leslie Ellis recently convened a roundtable to explore these issues. On the call were Mark Coblitz, VP of Strategic Planning at Comcast Corp.; Nick Hamilton-Piercy, CTO at Rogers Cablesystems; Greg Braden, executive vice president of engineering and telephony operations at AT&T Broadband; Chris Bowick, senior vice president of technology development at Cox Communications; and Jim Chiddix, CTO of Time Warner Cable. What follows is an edited transcript of the conversation.