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1. 1. CT's Video Report

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   Published on: 5/4/2006   Last Visited: 6/17/2006

   "We designed our global resource session manager to work with any of the Motorola or Scientific Atlanta technologies," said Cliff Aaby, C-COR's VOD Product Architect, "At the (NCTA) booth, we demonstrated that we're not only able to do switched digital, but that we can do it in an open environment."
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   To that end, Aaby said C-COR's backoffice reporting system will give cable operators a clearer view of what broadcast channels are actually being viewed, which could help in negotiating packages from programmers.
   
   While SDV deployments are expected to pick up steam next year, especially in bandwidth-constrained systems, there's still some work that needs to be done with standards and technologies. Aaby said that while TWC seems to favor remote procedure calls as the application interface between global session resource managers and modulators, other operators might prefer an XML interface.
   
   "It's a new technology, so there are a lot of opinions about the best way to implement it," Aaby said

2. 2. Broadbus

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   Published on: 3/1/2005   Last Visited: 11/15/2006

   Opinions diverge on the challenge of finding the right technical people who can act as what nCUBE (now C-COR) VOD Product Architect Cliff Aaby calls "the technical backstops to these advanced services."
   
   The multi-disciplinary engineers who are managing the burgeoning on-demand infrastructure largely come from within MSOs. "They're growing these guys internally," says Aaby.
   
   LaJoie notes that it takes both personnel who are growing from within the field as well as newcomers to cable who are more system-aware. And he downplays the difficulty of acquiring the latter category of skills: "The reality is that if you could figure out how to make a cable television system work, operating and managing an IP network with its associated systems is relatively straightforward," he says.
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   Cliff Aaby, VOD product architect for nCUBE, analyzed more than 200 trouble tickets. He classified them into the following five buckets, with the first three buckets comprising some 80 percent of the total:

3. 3. nCUBE - Press Releases

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   Published on: 12/5/2003   Last Visited: 1/13/2005

   Cliff Aaby presenting on optimizing VOD architecture
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   nCUBE VOD product architect Cliff Aaby will present his white paper, "Optimizing the Headend for VOD," June 17 at 8.a.m. and June 18 at noon during the workshop, "Optimizing Interactive Networks for VOD: An Alternative Approach."