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2014 CTO Roundtable Cuts A Wide Swath Across The Industry
2014 CTO Roundtable Cuts A Wide Swath Across The Industry
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significantly, and it will help us as well. Suddenly the in-home experience is no longer going to be
the limiting factor. It used to be that even when we had a 100-megabit product and somebody
had an old 11.n that operated only in 2.4, they just didnt hit a 100 megabits because you had a
crappy access point.
Werner: We all feel that first of all that the FCC did a very good job there. They
had a lot of people weighing in on both sides and they came up with a very good
answer for the consumer. Wi-Fi is becoming a much larger used service. Its one
that is used both in the home and out of the home. Its great to take DOCSIS 3.1
up to a gigabit per second but you can't always get it to the devices. Most of
devices that are being manufactured out there are capable of operating in these
new bands, so I think its great.
Jensen: We have a managed Wi-Fi solution that we sell to our residential customers. We have a
number of venues in our footprint that we have established hotspots that are available to our
subscribers and non-subscribers on a purchase basis. Wi-Fi is a tough animal right now in my
opinion. It is tough from an engineering perspective to plan a network when the fundamental
technology specifications change every two years.
So weve gone from N to AC now, and as the tea leaves indicate were moving to I believe
AH next. How do you plan for a network when you have that kind of volatility? Thats a real
challenge.
And then on top of that, youve got LTE unlicensed that may be impeding the ability to provide
Wi-Fi in the traditional sense. There are a lot of factors in this, and as a smaller operator we
arent as attuned to the transport corridors.
So were going to continue to watch what is happening. As weve seen the larger operators
cooperate, the smaller MSOs have not really been able to play in that and were hoping that in
some form or fashion we can federate to allow our customers to roam and allow our other MSO
customers to roam into our area. So there are just a lot of variables there.
Hart: For us I think it will be a combination of both customer and community
Wi-Fi.
Well be making more announcements in the near future. Particularly around
what were trying to do from a community and metro perspective and then were
also taking a look at the in-home Wi-Fi service, trying to improve the service and
capability.
Kanouff: I think that theres so much that we can do with Wi-Fi. Theres no
doubt that its really becoming so much more important in our service offering.
As to what services we offer, theres so much flexibility and were looking at all of those things;
what services we can use to further stretch Wi-Fi and give our customers more flexibility.
CED: Does it seem feasible for a cable operator to use a Wi-Fi first strategy that adopts
Wi-Fi over cellular?
Kanouff: As far as specifically being a replacement service for LTE, thats not what were looking
at at Cablevision, but were certainly looking at the broad gamut of the other services and what
we can do for connectivity.
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Its kind of the virtual library where you can check out a wide variety of e-books. Scribd is a
monthly subscription and you have access to thousands of e-books.
Brown: Ive downloaded the Metawatch app.
Metawatch is one of these smart watches that has some interesting capabilities, so lots of things
are at your wrist. Its very convenient for notifications and things like that. Rather than having to
be so obvious as to haul your smartphone out from your pocket, now you can be very subtle and
look at your watch.
The other one is the Narrative app. Its a little wearable that has a camera on it and every 30
seconds it takes a picture and then it creates your life narrative. It records all of these pictures in
the cloud so you can go back and review the highlights of your day and all sorts of things. Its the
ultimate in narcissism. Its all about me.
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