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Convergence selects Geo Networks’ fibre

Geo Networks, a provider of dedicated fibre networks, has inked a second deal with Internet Protocol and network provider, Convergence Group. The Midlands-based service provider serves bandwidth intensive sectors such as technology and broadcast. The deal sees a 36km network carry voice, web and video traffic across London via Geo fibre in the city’s sewer […]

August 8, 2011

Motorola, Time Warner team for advanced gateway

Motorola Mobility has revealed at the NCTA Cable Show in Chicago that it has teamed up with Time Warner Cable to develop a video gateway platform capable of delivering an advanced consumer in-home entertainment experience. Incorporating the latest set-top and gateway-related technologies is designed to enable Time Warner Cable to continue to enhance its video-based […]

June 16, 2011

Pace, thePlatform, Intel power Comcast’s next-gen TV experience

Digital TV technology specialist Pace is working with Comcast, one of the world’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, to launch a new hybrid DVR set-top box with tru2way and IP capabilities that delivers an advanced personalised TV viewing experience. Comcast is using the Pace set-top box platform in a market […]

June 15, 2011By Colin Mann

Televation in-home streaming from Motorola

At the NCTA Cable Show in Chicago, Motorola Mobility has unveiled another tool aimed at allowing cable operators to provide their customers with the ability to watch live TV on a connected IP device anywhere around the home. Motorola Televation is a broadband device that works with a Wi-Fi router, and employs a 1GHz digital […]

June 14, 2011

Aurora Networks in China MoU

Optical transport solution provider Aurora Networks revealed at the NCTA Cable Show in Chicago that it has signed a memorandum of understanding for technical co-operation with Radio, Film and Television Design and Research Institute (DRFT). The institute is an organisation under China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). The agreement is designed to […]

June 14, 2011

TiVo’s family homecoming

Advanced television services and DVR specialist TiVo has chosen Chicago’s NCTA Cable Show to unveil the next generation of its whole home solution, with the addition of robust HD video streaming and two new set-tops to its service provider product family. TiVo Premiere Q, the company’s first-ever quad-tuner gateway set-top box, and TiVo Preview, its […]

June 13, 2011

Motorola’s Medios Xperience delivers personalised TV viewing

Motorola Mobility is aiming to place greater control into consumers’ hands to personalise their TV viewing across multiple devices anywhere in the home with the launch of its Medios Xperience platform. As part of the Medios multi-screen service management software suite, the cloud-based applications platform allows service providers to merge video content with social networking, […]

June 13, 2011

Skyware Global introduces first 69cm Ka-band antenna

Skyware Global, the complete supplier of satcom terminal solutions, has announced its latest innovative product – the 69cm Ka-band Outdoor Unit (ODU). This notable addition to Skyware Global’s industry-leading Ka-band portfolio debuts at next month’s Confederation of Aerial Industries’ (CAI) 2011 trade fair in Leeds, UK, and will then be showcased at CommunicAsia2011 in Singapore […]

June 9, 2011

Sezmi and Netgem team up

Multi-screen hybrid television platform provider Sezmi Corporation and connected home solutions specialist Netgem have formed a partnership to include Netgem’s set-top-box hardware and software as part of Sezmi’s comprehensive TV offering. Sezmi brings a differentiated multi-screen TV experience to consumers with a system that adapts to varying network capabilities alleviating the need for service providers […]

June 7, 2011By Colin Mann

EchoStar sings Aria for cable TV

EchoStar Technologies is to unveil Aria, a new technology ‘ecosystem’ designed exclusively for mid-sized and independent cable TV operators at the upcoming Cable Show in Chicago. “Our engineers have designed an economical technology platform that will allow smaller cable operators to deliver the premium television features and services most in demand by consumers today without […]

June 7, 2011