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I had maintained another domain called Crusin' Over Cable, and I kinda thought the name was a little long, so I registered this domain to replace crusinovercable.net. I'm not going to drop the Crusin' domain just yet, but I am redirecting it here.

 

I want to change the scope of this site though. I work directly with the cable TV industry, and there are some pretty cool things happening that may change what we do on "the last mile". I am a cable modem consumer (on a Comcast (formerly Adelphia cable system) and I'll try not to let that fact obscure my vision. :)

 

Telephone companies are launching video services, and there's fiber optic High Speed Data (HSD - like Verizon's FiOS, etc.), and power utilities are moving into this space now (gee, what took them so long?). Cable is still the leader in market penetration over DSL, and they are actually gaining new video subscribers again, but the lines are bluring. Congress is working on "Net Neutrality" laws to prevent any Internet access provider from degrading the performance of application services that they are not directly providing, like VoIP, or video. State-wide or even national franchises are part of the future. Cable TV operators have never been exclusive franchises, its just very hard to overbuild one and get enough subscribers to pay back the investment.

 

So, what is this site about? Heck, I don't know where its all going, but I thought that I could share my experiences and maybe you can get something from it.