一開始當然要先梳妝打扮一下，這裡要清乾淨
那裡也要清乾淨才行.....
看到對方開始打扮起來，這邊這個也不落人後，開始整理門面....
開始吸引對方的注意，用力地抖起羽毛.....
這個就不用說啦，馬上有效果，女方看得心花怒放，一直撲上來.....
唉呀，要看鏡頭阿，竟然偏到另一邊去了......
寫在頭前
一直飛來飛去，好像蜜蜂一樣一直採密...
相機的速度跟不上他的翅膀，所以怎麼拍都是模糊的...
側面空中暫留，趕快又拍了幾張，大概看得出翅膀的殘影.....
終於休息停在樹上了
BroadLogic’s TeraPIX processor enables cable operators to increase bandwidth and triple their digital spectrum. This additional bandwidth offers cable operators the equivalent of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network performance, and allows them to transparently deliver dozens more high definition (HD) channels, video-on-demand (VOD), VoIP, and ultra-high-speed cable modem services to subscribers, without the need for extensive network upgrades.
“We appreciate the recognition as a Gartner 'Cool Vendor.' We have developed a breakthrough technology that cost-effectively solves a critical problem for an entire industry,” said Danial Faizullabhoy, CEO of BroadLogic. “In order to remain competitive, cable operators must find the bandwidth to offer additional services. BroadLogic’s processor is the only solution that offers sufficient bandwidth without the expense of ripping up streets or burdening consumers with additional equipment.”
Cable systems in North America are in a bandwidth crunch. While satellite and telecommunications competitors offer more HD channels and new services over all-digital networks, 70 percent of a cable operator’s downstream bandwidth supports the analog channels used by a large percent of the existing customer base, which the operations cannot afford to lose. Operators have few choices. They can replace the cable running to homes, require a set-top box on every analog device in every home, and implement stop-gap measures that offer only short-term help, or deploy BroadLogic. With the BroadLogic solution, one “Residential Gateway” using the BroadLogic BL80000 TeraPIX is placed outside the home. The cable operator can then go “all digital” up to the home, recovering all the bandwidth dedicated to the analog signal, while the BL80000 can serve the entire digital lineup, as well as other services, to all the existing analog devices in the home without any set-top boxes.
About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
About BroadLogic
Headquartered in San Jose, California, BroadLogic designs and supplies breakthrough video-processing technologies that enable broadband network operators to maintain their competitive edge by offering next-generation video-on-demand, digital-video, voice, and high-speed data services to more consumers. BroadLogic’s patented technologies power devices that simultaneously process an order of magnitude more video content than conventional approaches, helping operators maximize revenue gains while controlling operational and capital expenditures.
BroadLogic said Thursday it’s getting set to test its technology with at least five major cable firms, potentially saving cable operators massive expenditures on network upgrades.
The privately held San Jose-based company declined to name the cable companies involved, but said it has commitments to conduct both lab and field trials to test whether digitizing cable transmission streams can indeed triple the cable firms’ available bandwidth.
| ‘The more choice consumers have, the more bandwidth is needed.’ -Thomas Ayres, BroadLogic
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One of the commitments certainly came from Time Warner, which is one of the two most recent investors in BroadLogic.
Time Warner, which owns Time Warner Cable, the second largest cable operator in the United States, and Rho Ventures plunked down $20 million in the company about two years ago (see BroadLogic Boosts Cable).
At that time BroadLogic estimated it would be in field trials by mid-2005. The degree of difficulty has ratcheted up since then because of the increased network demands of HDTV and video-on-demand.
Much to Prove
BroadLogic will have to prove its processor-based technology can hold up under the rigors of increasing consumer demand for high bandwidth-consuming services.
Another key factor will be determining whether the new technology will require expensive add-on devices, particularly at the customer end of the cable connection, where upgrades can be very costly.
BroadLogic’s processors promise to digitize traffic streams on the cable network. Digital transmission is far more efficient than analog transmission, which eats up huge amounts of bandwidth in the cable firms’ hybrid fiber-optic/coax networks.
But BroadLogic is not alone in offering the cable industry bandwidth-saving options. BigBand, a marketer of switched digital video technology, has just completed successful field tests with Cablevision.
Comcast has also confirmed that it is involved in testing switched video (see Comcast Makes the Switch).
No Competition
But BroadLogic does not see video switching as solely a competitive technology.
“Switched video has its strong point in infrequently viewed content such as video-on-demand,” said Thomas Ayres, BroadLogic’s vice president of engineering. “If you look at channels that are highly watched, switching does very little for you, so we are very complementary technologies.”
“We are in the age of consumer choice,” he added. “The more choice consumers have, the more bandwidth is needed, and that choice can be video or data. It’s about pleasing the consumer.”
The company will enter the market as a cable upgrade, but according to BroadLogic CEO Danial Faizullabhoy, it will not be limited to just cable operators.
“We bring efficiencies to any pipe that’s carrying analog traffic, whether it’s fiber-coax hybrid or fiber only,” Mr. Faizullabhoy said.
“As a matter of fact, fiber is very unfriendly to analog, so by pulling analog off of fiber, you relax some of the design constraints and you make the network that much more efficient,” he concluded.
Cable TV giant follows Cablevision and a band of startups in freeing up bandwidth for HDTV.
January 26, 2007
Comcast confirmed Friday that it is testing the real-world reliability of switched digital video, a TV service delivery technique that could delay the need for heavy expenditure on overall network upgrades.
The technology promises to breathe new life into the cable operator’s fiber-optic/copper hybrid networks. Those networks are beginning to wilt under the immense bandwidth demands of HDTV.
Comcast, the largest cable TV operator in the United States, is at least the second major cable carrier to test the technology. Shares of Comcast fell $0.10 to $43.39 in recent trading.
Cablevision, the fifth largest cable operator in the U.S., said this week it has successfully completed the biggest-ever deployment of switched digital video in the country. The rollout occurred in the New York area.
The testing and deployment of switched digital video is extremely good news for a small clique of privately held firms such as BroadLogic, of San Jose, California, and BigBand Networks, of Redwood City, California.
BigBand’s life as a private company is on life support since the six-year-old company filed for an IPO in December.
BigBand, which is in a quiet period, counts nine of the top 10 largest cable operators as its customers. The company provided the key pieces of technology in Cablevision’s deployment of switched video.
Analog to Digital Switch
In November, BroadLogic said it began marketing a video processor technology that promises to triple cable operators’ network capacity. The company’s TeraPIX technology increases the bandwidth to the home by digitizing the video streams (see BroadLogic Boosts Cable).
Analog transmission eats up 500 megahertz of a typical 750 MHz connection, while digital transmission makes much more effective use of bandwidth. By freeing up bandwidth, cable operators can better serve their HDTV customers.
Cablevision announced nine international packages on foreign language channels that will be delivered via its switching technology. The channels will be presented in Spanish, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, and other languages.
With BigBand’s switched broadcast system, only digital TV programs currently being requested by customers will be delivered on the network.
In the current state of the art, all programs are sent to all homes on the network simultaneously even if no one is watching a majority of the programs. In the switched system, only programs that are being watched will be sent, freeing up bandwidth.
Comcast is currently testing switching technology in two undisclosed markets. The carrier said it plans to implement the technology later this year, but refused to disclose which vendor’s technology is being used.
Startup wants to triple cable TV bandwidth by reclaiming analog capacity with digital efficiencies.
November 6, 2006
On the eve of the United States mid-term elections, BroadLogic, a startup focused on the cable industry, rolled out on Monday its “November Surprise,” a video processor technology that promises to triple cable operators’ network capacity at a time when bandwidth is in massive demand.
It is BroadLogic’s second November Surprise in two years. In November 2004, the company announced that it had received a $20-million third round of investment led by the U.S.’s second largest cable operator, Time Warner, and another New York City investor, Rho Ventures (see Time Warner's Expensive Upgrade).
San Jose, California-based BroadLogic announced the availability of TeraPIX, a processor that will be the key component in a gateway device that could be installed at each subscriber’s residence.
Analog to Digital
Because of the popularity of cable-ready devices, many subscribers today receive roughly about 80 channels without the benefit of set-top boxes. But analog delivery of 80 channels eats up a significant amount of bandwidth: 500 megahertz of a typical 750MHz network.
By switching to digital delivery, cable operators can get back a lot of that bandwidth because of the efficiencies inherent in digital delivery. But that would require the distribution and installation of a set-top box and a remote control for each TV in each home—an expensive proposition.
The BroadLogic gateway allows the cable companies to apply the efficiencies of digital delivery without installing set-top boxes at each TV set. However it does involve the installation of a gateway either inside or outside the customer’s premise, an expensive but longer-term solution.
If the TeraPIX technology works in the field and can be installed at a reasonable cost, it will allow cable operators to gain significant bandwidth without having to invest billions of dollars on an overall network upgrade.
Winning Ticket
For eight-year-old BroadLogic, this could be a winning ticket in a very expensive lottery that started more than two years ago when the cable operators invaded the turf of the phone companies by offering voice service.
The two largest phone companies responded by investing billions in fiber-optic upgrades of their networks, to offer pay TV service.
The demands of high-definition TV and on-demand TV, both of which consume additional bandwidth, have placed additional stress on the cable TV networks.
Cable operators have been casting about for novel ways to make the delivery of these new services less bandwidth-consuming. BroadLogic’s new processors offer an option—an option that has been pending for some time.
In August 2002, BroadLogic received a $12-million cash infusion from a team of investors led by Cisco Systems, Intel Capital, August Capital, CDIB Venture, and Walden International.
In November 2004 the company got a $20-million investment from Time Warner and Rho Ventures.
照片：2007年 高雄某路邊餐廳
照片：200X年，師大音樂系館前
照片：199X年，娘娘的畢業演奏會
照片：199X年，某同學音樂發表會
照片：1993年 澎湖, 本來想跟娘娘合照，卻跑來一堆不速之客
照片：1993年 澎湖，娘娘釣起一條小魚，還好意思叫我照相
照片：1993年 澎湖，看起來很像春嬌與志明
照片：1993年，澎湖，應讀者要求，與班花組合照
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照片：Arches National Park
照片：秋天的優勝美地國家公園
先說清楚，這不是我兒子（我兒子應該會更帥一點，嘿嘿）
這也不是我女兒，（我女兒應該會更可愛一點）
因為很久沒見到Stella跟他兒子了，所以我想趁著有時間，找他們一起出來走走也好，
難得有這種機會，我當然要來試試看開帆船的滋味，怎麼說呢，當船長的感覺實在是太棒了。
出發前清點人數，講解注意事項
中華少棒加油
小時候在電視上看到僑胞們在海外替我們的少棒隊加油的情景，似乎還留在我的腦海，
然而，今天，換成我在場邊替這些小將們加油打氣，在興奮之餘，
看到我們的場邊觀眾的表現，說真的，實在是讓我有點失望。
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會知道這場比賽也是因為壘球隊隊長寫信告訴大家，要記得去加油，
我們想說反正週末也沒啥事情，所以就跑來湊湊熱鬧，也看看我們的少棒到底有多厲害。
場地還不算難找，只是老美還真的不忘做生意，看小孩打球也要收錢，
好吧，算了，反正都來了，一個人八塊美金就給他了，一進場，你馬上就知道自己該坐到哪裡去
觀眾席的一邊已經坐滿了我們拿著國旗的僑胞，出乎我的意外的是，
在這裡我們竟然能夠掛國旗，而且比賽開始還要唱兩隊的國歌，
天阿，已經好久沒唱過國歌了，帶頭領唱的是校長，
然而對方派出的是兩位美女來領唱，當場就被比下去（請參照照片)
比賽開始，兩邊的球員一上場，光是看體格，我們就大對方一截，
場邊的老美還一直說，我們是否派了超齡的小孩來打，
說真的，看起來還真的有點大人打小孩的感覺，有點好笑
