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HGI, BBF talk device template for smart home

HGI and Broadband Forum (BBF) will discuss, during a Smart Home Task Force meeting of HGI, recommendations for a universal template which will facilitate interworking between home devices and smart home applications. The universal template is a component of a logical abstraction layer that is used to provide smart home services to broadband consumers. The […]

March 13, 2014

Liberty Global boosts German services with ARRIS

IP, video and broadband technology specialist ARRIS has confirmed that Liberty Global, the world’s largest cable provider, is deploying its E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) to its leading German subsidiary, Unitymedia KabelBW – enabling enhanced and uninterrupted entertainment and broadband services with 1 Gbps capacity. Liberty Global is dramatically expanding ARRIS’s E6000 CER footprint, which […]

March 12, 2014Colin Mann @ Cable Congress

Record cable subs boost TiVo

A record 313,000 cable MSO subscriptions added in the fourth quarter helped advanced television entertainment market specialist TiVo report its best-ever full-year Service and Technology revenues. Reporting financial results for the fourth quarter and Fiscal Year ended January 31, 2014, Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo, said this was another solid quarter for TiVo […]

February 27, 2014By Colin Mann

Wi-Fi embedded in 57% of all CE devices

Global shipments for Wi-Fi enabled Consumer Electronics devices grew 19 per cent year-over-year to reach 1.9 billion units in 2013 according to research from Strategy Analytics. Over 4 billion Wi-Fi enabled consumer electronics devices are now

February 27, 2014

Qwilt, Procera partner for caching

Qwilt, a provider of online video delivery and transparent caching solutions, and Procera Networks, the global Internet Intelligence company, have announced a partnership to offer network operators a best-of-breed transparent caching and Internet Intelligence solution that addresses network challenges resulting from the rapid growth and consumption of online video. Qwilt’s QB-Series transparent caching technology and […]

February 25, 2014

ADB ships 50m devices

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has shipped its 50 millionth device. With each broadband gateway featuring 30 million lines of code and the new Wideband set-top box 100 million lines, ADB’s software engineers’ code would now stretch to the edge of our solar system. Every year, 55 million TV viewers consume 80 billion hours of TV […]

February 24, 2014

Tilgin strengthens Flexible Premises Portfolio with new advanced Home Gateways

Tilgin, a provider of solutions for multi-play and next-generation broadband access, announces the launch of new Home Gateways at the FTTH Council Europe Conference, from 18 – 20 February 2014, at Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm. Tilgin’s flexible premises solution is an all-encompassing concept that offers operators a simplified option for the deployment and maintenance of their FTTH […]

February 18, 2014

Cisco: 11-fold increase in mobile data traffic to 2018

According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2013 to 2018, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase nearly 11-fold over the next four years and reach an annual run rate of 190 exabytes by 2018. The projected increase in mobile traffic is partly

February 6, 2014

New patented method for broadband delivery

DTVCast, a  developer of wireless broadband technology, has been granted a patent that enhances the use of UHF broadcast TV spectrum for high speed broadband and content delivery services. Through the use of sectorisation of TV spectrum, the new patented method quadruples the broadband throughput capacity of a single existing or new broadcast TV channel […]

January 30, 2014

Entropic solutions for India pay-TV market

Entropic, an expert in semiconductor solutions for the connected home, announced the availability of its award-winning c.LINK Broadband Access products for the India Pay-TV market. Entropic will have its Broadband Access products on display at the 22nd Convergence India 2014 Conference, held in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, from January 21-23, 2014. Entropic’s c.LINK technology is […]

January 21, 2014