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Pace: 2013 ahead of guidance

Pay-TV and broadband service provider technology provider Pace has announced an unaudited update for the financial year ended December 31st 2013 ahead of preliminary results to be announced on March 4th 2014 which suggests that its Full Year 2013 performance is expected to be ahead of guidance. Pace reports that: Full year revenues expected to […]

January 9, 2014

SoftAtHome gives wings to Ultra-Fast 1Gbps Internet-Box

SoftAtHome, provider of home operating platforms enabling convergent services for the Digital Home, has announced that its software is powering the ultra-fast 1Gbps Home Gateway for Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms provider. The Internet-Box, launched in November 2013, is available to Swisscom residential customers for browsing the Internet at speeds up to 1 Gbps over the […]

January 8, 2014

Cisco floats Videoscape into the Cloud

In a further move distancing video delivery services away from the customer’s set-top box and the operator’s network infrastructure, Cisco has announced an expansion of its Videoscape TV services delivery platform to include a host of new cloud video capabilities, including an industry-first Videoscape ‘as-a-service’ offering and open cloud software technologies based on OpenStack. These […]

January 7, 2014By Colin Mann

Qualcomm boosts Ultra HD TVs, STBs

Qualcomm’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, has revealed the Qualcomm Snapdragon 802 processor, the first fully integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed for next-generation Smart TVs, smart set-top boxes and smart digital media adapters. The Snapdragon 802 processor is designed to power the latest smart TV experiences at Ultra HD resolution, including seamless decoding of Ultra HD video […]

January 7, 2014

Cisco tops 4 out of 5 video infrastructure segments

New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco has maintained its leadership in four of the five main video infrastructure market segments, though in video client hardware and software (which includes set-top boxes, residential gateways and associated software/middleware) it slipped to third ranked position, being overtaken by Pace. In the other major change […]

December 31, 2013

2013/14 inflection point for broadband by satellite

NSR’s Broadband Satellite Markets 12th Edition report forecasts the entire broadband satellite market’s installed base of VSAT sites, broadband access subscribers, trunking and backhaul sites will increase by just over 5 million by 2022 and generate $9.9 billion in revenues. Fully 87% of this growth will come from new subscribers to satellite broadband access services […]

December 17, 2013

SK Broadband deploys Arris E6000

SK Broadband, an integrated communications company in South Korea, is deploying the E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) from Arris Group, enabling the service provider to launch its new 1GB data service, as well as enhanced entertainment experiences. The Arris E6000 CER is a Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) that has been deployed worldwide and now […]

December 4, 2013

UK superfast take-up accelerates

According to BT Group, net FTTx additions for external providers increased by more than 300 per cent during in the three months to end September 2013. “Superfast broadband is where the UK is heading and the consumers agree. Virgin Media, BT, Sky and TalkTalk amongst others all show strong results for their higher bandwidth tariffs […]

November 19, 2013

Slingbox arrives in Brazil

Echostar-owned Slingmedia is deploying its Slingbox-350 models in Brazil.  The Sling technology allows users to use the device to shift incoming broadcast content to any other device via WiFi, 3G or 4G connections. Brazil is the first Latino country to get Slingbox, which can be used by any of the region’s pay-TV operators including Sky […]

November 14, 2013By Chris Forrester

Smart home start up backed by GE 



New York based Quirky has said it has had received $79 million in an investment round led by General Electric, as well as existing VC investors Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The deal builds on an existing partnership struck in April between GE, which is promoting an “industrial internet”, and Quirky, which […]

November 13, 2013