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The History of Cable Television

  • NCTA - The History of Cable

  • Media Technology - Laying Tracks: A Brief History of Cable Television

  • PCTA - The History of Cable Television

  • 50 Years of Technology -Landmarks of Technology in the Cable Television Industry
    | Intro | 1950's | 1960's | 1970's | 1980's | 1990's | Cable Pioneers |

  • Cable World's "Cable television - The First 50 Years"
    Chapter 1An Industry Is Born
    Introduction: Revolutionaries With a Vision
    An Industry Is Born
    The NCTA Through the Years
    Chapter 2A Hell of a Business
    A Hell of a Business
    Chapter 3The Big Players Arrive
    The Big Players Arrive
    The Great Pay TV Experiments
    Coming of Age: Cable Gets Its Own Trade Press
    Chapter 4 The Dark Ages
    The Dark Ages
    Engineers Form the SCTE Trade Group
    Chapter 5The Satellite Breakthrough
    The Satellite Breakthrough
    Chapter 6The Programmers
    The Programmers
    Chapter 7The Growth Era
    The Growth Era
    Chapter 8 The Deregulation Era
    The Deregulation Era
    Chapter 9Big Money
    Big Money
    Chapter 10 Return to Releg
    Return to Releg
    The Door-To-Door Billionaire
    Chapter 11 The Dawn of Digital
    The Dawn of Digital
    Chapter 12 A Bright Future
    A Bright Future



    FAQs on Cable Modems

    FAQs provided by Cable ISPs
  • The Bridge
  • EarthLink
  • EastLink (formerly Andara)
  • HSA - High Speed Access
  • MidcoNet
  • Mountain Cable-Internet
  • Optimum Online
  • PeRKInet
  • PlanetCable
  • RoadRunner
  • GTE's WorldWind
  • VertoNet.com

    FAQs provided by Cable Modem Vendors
  • General Instrument
  • Motorola


    Tutorials and White Papers

  • What is a Cable Modem?
    Rolf V. Ostergaard, 1998

  • Cable Modem Impact on Service
    Jessica L. Kemp, University of Maryland Baltimore, December 10,
    1996

  • The Integration of Data Services
    John West

  • Internet Access Through Cable TV
    Dr. Matjaz Debevc, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
    Science - Slovenia, May 1996

  • Evolution of Cable Television to Interactive Communications Service Provider
    Jim Connors, SunSoft Eastern Area Systems Engineer, not dated

  • Getting Your Cable Modem Working With Windows for Workgroups Using Microsoft's
    TCP/IP Stack

  • Integrated Digital Services over Cable Networks

  • Security in DOCSIS-based Cable Modem Systems

  • The First Amendment Versus Municipal Regulation of Cable Television - A White Paper

  • Cable Television: Advanced Technologies


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