Worldwide home network penetration is expected to climb from 24.8 per cent in 2013 to 33.2 per cent by 2018. Growth is driven by the continued spread of broadband services and demand for multiscreen video services. What is seen as commonplace in mature markets, including server provided broadband routers with integrated Wi-Fi access points and […]
Culminating a dramatic six-year period of growth, the global market for professional broadcast equipment and services reached $63 billion in 2013, up 52 per cent from $41 billion in 2007, according to findings from the IHS Technology Professional Video Research practice. The rapid growth has been driven by a significant rise in shipments of customer-premises […]
Reports from European retailers show that Google’s streaming stick has been selling well since it launched two weeks ago. Some say that the device has generated demand that compares to Apple’s iPad. Google hasn’t released any firm Chromecast sales numbers, but some of the retailers that Google has been partnering with have been a bit […]
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, and Aspera, an IBM company and creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s large data at maximum speed, have announced a new high-speed option for Akamai customers to accelerate upload and distribution of rich media content […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]