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Cisco: “Q3 is solid”

Cisco, the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment, has reported its third quarter results for the period ended April 28, 2012. Cisco reported third quarter net sales of $11.6 billion and net income of $2.6 billion. “We delivered solid results this quarter with record revenue,” said John Chambers, Cisco chairman and CEO. “We are […]

May 10, 2012

Elemental raises $13m

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has raised $13 million in third round funding led by new investor Norwest Venture Partners which joins existing backers General Catalyst, Voyager Capital and Steamboat Ventures, who also participated in the round. The new funding comes as Elemental invests aggressively to extend its leadership […]

May 10, 2012

EchoStar to close US cable STB unit

EchoStar Technologies is withdrawing from the US cable set-top box market and is to cease development of its Aria platform immediately as a result of poor sales, the company told Multichannel News. Instead, the company is to shift resources to support what it describes as it “unique intellectual property and advanced content-delivery technologies”. The company […]

April 24, 2012By Colin Mann

RESEARCH: MPEG-4 drives operator investment

Findings from two recent reports by market research firm Infonetics Research suggest that pay-TV operators continue to increase their investments in MPEG-4 encoders, while despite healthy unit growth in set-top box (STB) sales, revenue was flat. “Two of the most interesting trends in the video equipment and set-top box markets are 1) across the board, […]

April 19, 2012

Ericsson selected for NBC Olympics squad

Communications technology and services specialist Ericsson is to provide a range of video processing solutions and support services to NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, during its coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games. The Ericsson solution is helping to deliver NBC Olympics’ HD content across both contribution and distribution feeds to […]

April 12, 2012

Toshiba NPEngine boosts video streaming

Recognising that in today’s networked world, more and more video is delivered over IP networks to PCs, tablet PCs, smartphones and Smart TVs and that as this volume continues to grow, on a daily basis, it is driving a need for powerful video streaming equipment on the server side, Toshiba Corporation has unveiled  NPEngine, which […]

April 10, 2012

Asheridge Custom Headend Panel

Asheridge Communications is extending its reach further into operators Headends, with a range custom splitting and combining panels. Created during close consultations between Asheridge Engineers and operators, this range of high performance modular passives can be adapted to almost any configuration in the network.   Potential examples of applications are: test point, splitting and combining, […]

March 30, 2012

Vecima announces design win for next generation digital cable broadband transmitter technology

Vecima Networks, a designer and manufacturer in the broadband cable and wireless network infrastructure market, has announced that in partnership with a leading chip manufacturer, the Company has entered into an agreement to design a next generation, extremely high density broadband cable transmitter for one of the world’s leading cable broadband access companies. Vecima and […]

March 19, 2012

Residential gateway market to triple from 2012 to 2015

Residential gateways are expected to become the new hub of the so-called digital living room when they take over from set-top boxes, with the vigorous gateway market projected to triple from 2012 to 2015, according to a report from information and analytics provider IHS. Shipments of residential gateways and thin client boxes that act as […]

February 29, 2012

Cisco heads video infrastructure market

Findings from ACG Research’s Q4 2011 worldwide and regional market size and share reports for the Service Provider Video Infrastructure (SPVI) market indicate that the SPVI market grew 5 per cent sequentially to reach $4 billion for the quarter, although down 3 per cent year to year. Regionally, EMEA and the Americas gained quarter-to-quarter; APAC […]

February 27, 2012