Tony Cross, Chief Architect of Australia’s nbn (National Broadband Network), has announced in his Keynote Address at the Broadband World Forum 2015 event in London that the company has conducted its first trial of new copper acceleration technology G.Fast and hopes to be in a position to launch the technology in 2017. “We have conducted […]
Cable MSO Charter Communications is testing a new ‘remote DVR’, according to an FCC filing from Cisco in support of the proposed Charter/Time Warner Cable merger. Cisco and Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, entered into a strategic agreement January 2015 through which Cisco will supply key products in support of […]
Suddenlink has selected ARRIS’s Service Provider Wi-Fi solution to deliver carrier-grade Wi-Fi to its commercial customers throughout its 17-state area. ARRIS’s turnkey Service Provider Wi-Fi solution enables Suddenlink to provide its commercial customers with a simple Wi-Fi experience that offers seamless hand-offs between Wi-Fi zones. “Our customers are always looking for new ways to stay […]
Cisco has announced an agreement with SK Broadband to deploy a next-generation converged cable access platform (CCAP) across its national footprint. SK Broadband is a Tier 1 Internet broadband service provider in Korea with five million subscribers. With the DOCSIS 3.1 capabilities of the Cisco cBR-8, SK Broadband can immediately expand Gigabit or multi-Gigabit services […]
Insight and analytics source IHS has raised its outlook for the broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) market, which includes DSL, cable, fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), residential gateways and mobile broadband CPE. In a September report, the firm noted it increased its 2019 worldwide broadband CPE forecast by 8 per cent, to $12.4 billion. “The primary source for […]
Growth in Ethernet switching continues, with worldwide revenue up 9 percent sequentially in the second quarter of 2015, reaching a total of $5.6 billion, according to the IHS Infonetics Ethernet Switches report. “A rebound in North America and China, coupled with strong uptake of 40GE solutions in data center environments, drove Ethernet switch revenue in […]
IHS has conducted in-depth interviews with service providers across the globe who use residential gateways to provide broadband services and found that only 31 per cent of respondents plan on virtualising their residential gateways by 2017. “Despite the obvious benefits of virtualising residential gateways in the home-namely shortening of provisioning time and elimination of truck […]
Arris Group has announced that Turksat, Turkey’s leading satellite communications and cable TV operator, has selected its E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) to prepare for future IP interactivity and higher speed broadband services. Turksat said it selected the E6000 CER to support today’s CMTS requirements and also to support the company’s strategic transition to Converged […]
Netgem, a provider of telcoTV, has announced its ‘Fiber & TV as a service’ solution bringing TV services and unlimited premium content at a super fast speed of 200 Mbps, thanks to FTTH technology. The solution provides immediate access to the world of sophisticated TV (multicast bouquet, premium unicast channels, TVoD, SVoD, EST, Replay services, […]
Residents of Huntingdon – a market town in Cambridgeshire – have became the first people in the UK to take part in the field trial of a new type of ultrafast broadband technology from BT which will allow people to stream live ultra-high-definition 4K video content to multiple devices at once. The trial, which is […]