Advanced Television

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TiVo enables OOH streaming

DVR pioneer and advanced television services specialist TiVo has enabled out-of-home (OOH) streaming on the TiVo Roamio Pro and TiVo Roamio Plus DVRs, allowing users to stream and download live TV and recorded content to smartphones and tablets from anywhere. “Until now, your shows have been locked up in your set-top box at home,” said […]

October 25, 2013

Pace buys Aurora for $310m

Pay-TV and broadband services technology specialist Pace has entered into a conditional agreement with advanced, next-generation Optical Transport and Access Network solutions provider Aurora Networks to acquire the company in a $310 million cash deal that it says will strengthen Pace’s position as a market-leading solutions provider for the Pay-TV and broadband industries. According to […]

October 23, 2013

Extra spectrum needed to support WiFi

“There is something of a meeting of minds, or at least of objectives, in the UK today. Local authorities need to deliver services and improve access. Consumers like wifi when they can get it and operators need small cells. Common goals are often easier to achieve,” says Oliver Johnson, Chief Executive at Point Topic. WiFi […]

October 17, 2013

nVoy Certification for hybrid home networking

Establishing the certification regime for hybrid home networking is a major step forward for the nVoy programme. The test house has been selected, and the certification test plan has been verified against several silicon platforms to validate product interoperability. nVoy Certification is now primed to take hybrid networking to the next phase of growth. By […]

October 16, 2013

Lantiq, Netgem DSLTE System

Lantiq, a supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies, and Netgem, a technology provider of innovative video solutions for the connected entertainment market, have revealed Hybridge, a combined xDSL and LTE Residential Gateway. The rising need to access high-definition video streams, including on-demand and OTT content, on multiple screens leads to an ever growing […]

October 15, 2013

Expanded bandwidth multi-tap 1.2 GHz by Antronix

Antronix has announced its current Milenium series MGT multi-taps have been extended to a frequency range of 1.2 GHz via proprietary technology enhancements.  All current and future Milenium MGT2000-SE series video multi-taps and faceplates incorporate this enhanced technology and will extend the available frequency range by 200 MHz, surpassing the current industry standard of 1.0 GHz […]

October 10, 2013

ADB to debut ultra-broadband gateways and cloud-based multi-screen solutions at BBWF 2013

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a supplier of advanced solutions for the connected home, will introduce its cloud-based multi-screen IPTV solution and several new ultra-broadband and fibre devices on Stand G28 at Broadband World Forum 2013, 22nd-24th October, Amsterdam. These new products enable operators to reduce operating costs and increase ARPU as they expand their ultra-broadband […]

October 9, 2013

Snell Sirius and Halo routers for Beeline TV

Beeline TV, a growing Russian provider of home IPTV services with more than 900,000 subscribers, has chosen Snell Sirius and Halo routers to drive its newly upgraded playout centre in Moscow. V-LUX, the exclusive technology provider for Beeline TV, provided systems integration and installation services for the Snell routers. “When Beeline TV chose V-LUX for […]

October 8, 2013

Multipath solution to ease bandwidth concerns?

An Irish technology expert has used his quest for better bandwidth to develop bonding router technology which splits Internet traffic across all available Internet connections, giving users the speed and reliability of all combined. So-called ‘multipath’ technology – initially aimed at business applications – aggregates Internet connections, adding their speed and reliability. The router can […]

September 30, 2013By Colin Mann

Fixed LTE and DOCSIS 3.0 propel CPE market

Market research firm Infonetics has released its Q2 2013 Broadband CPE and Subscribers: PON, FTTH, Cable, and DSL market share, size and forecasts report, which tracks DSL, cable, and fibre to the home (FTTH) customer premises equipment (CPE), fixed LTE gateways, residential gateways, and broadband subscribers. “The overall broadband CPE market is strong, as operators […]

September 27, 2013