Digital experience intelligent edge platform Akamai is partnering with smart home services specialist Plume. The partnership gives Akamai’s entire global customer network, sales and go-to-market teams immediate access to Plume’s services platform to accelerate the deployment of new and highly-personalised Smart Home Services for broadband subscribers. The partnership will also combine Akamai Security and Personalization […]

Liberty Global’s UK unit Virgin Media has announced a new “game-changing” Intelligent WiFi Plus service that will give millions of customers the UK’s fastest widely available broadband speeds throughout their homes, at a time when fast, safe, secure and highly reliable WiFi ia crucial. The Intelligent WiFi Plus service consists of new features on Virgin […]

Personalised Smart Home Services specialist Plume is reporting record growth and adoption of its portfolio of advanced Smart Home Services and Communication Service Provider (CSP) applications, which now power more than 20 million active households around the world. Through 2020, Plume has been scaling rapidly and is currently averaging approximately 1 million new home activations each […]

According to a report by Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telco, networks, and data centre IT industries, total global revenue for broadband access equipment increased to $3.1 billion, up 1 per cent in Q3 2020 year-over-year. Growth came from spending on cable infrastructure and CPE equipment, as well as sustained spending […]

Irdeto has announced the launch of Keys & Credentials for Routers – an OEM-independent managed service offered to the ISP industry for their Broadband Customer Premise Equipment (CPE). As ISPs roll-out smarter CPE to deliver new revenue-generating cloud services, security threats and IoT attacks increase in an already attractive space for hackers and cyber pirates. […]

Iskratel, the European provider of sustainable broadband-access solutions, has launched its new Innbox U92, that provides a multi-gigabit experience over copper, fibre or mobile on a single home-networking device. The new device equips operators with a single, universal home gateway for customer premises, regardless of broadband-access technology. “We are very pleased to unveil Innbox U92, […]

Viasat of California is in the final test stages of its antenna development programme for SES and its Middle Earth orbiting satellites. Prototypes should be delivered early in 2021. SES’ Stewart Sanders, EVP/O3b mPOWER Programme Lead at SES, in a statement said: “The flexibility designed into the Viasat phased array antenna will enable our current […]

Israel’s Gilat and satellite operator SES have extended their existing technology relationship with a “multi-million-dollar follow-on order” for high-speed modems. Gilat’s modems will deliver multi Gb/s throughput, targeting high-end services over SES’s O3b and O3b mPOWER MEO satellite constellation. Gilat’s high-throughput modems will support SES in delivering fiber-equivalent services for government and high-end enterprise solutions. […]

Elon Musk is inviting consumers in rural America to install his Starlink satellite broadband system, at a cost of $99 a month. They also have to pay $499 for the antenna and its associated kit. However, it is widely accepted that Musk’s SpaceX is swallowing some of the antenna’s costs. As recently reported, the search […]