Alcatel-Lucent has launched AppGlide Video Analytics, a new managed service to help broadband service providers measure the quality of experience (QoE) for both free and paid online video from an end-user viewer’s perspective. Developed and commercialized by Alcatel-Lucent’s Ventures organisation, which is part of Bell Labs, it arms service providers with a comprehensive set of […]
Prominent UK businessman Allan Leighton is to take over as Chairman of STB maker Pace, which recently gained number one ranking among set-top box manufacturers, but which has also attracted adverse analyst comments following profits warnings. Leighton formerly headed supermarket chain Asda, but came to prominence during his tenure as chairman of Royal Mail. He […]
Cryptography Research has announced that Broadcom Corporation has signed a licence agreement regarding the use of CRI’s patents. CRI focuses on combating Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and related attacks. Under the agreement, Broadcom receives the freedom to use CRI’s patents. “Broadcom is a prominent technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for a wide range […]
Bouygues Telecom today announced that its next-generation Bbox will incorporate a concurrent dual band video-grade Wi-Fi module from Celeno. The Celeno module is powered by its OptimizAIR technology which improves connectivity speed and robustness to set top boxes, tablets, iPads and portable displays to enable Bbox subscribers to consume broadcast video, VoD and DVR content […]
Broadband technology specialist Arris Group is in discussions to buy multi-screen video provider SeaChange International, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. It is unclear what price SeaChange will fetch, or if a deal will be reached between the two companies, which have been in off-and-on talks for the past several […]
Sigma Systems has announced that YouSee, a subsidiary of TDC A/S and the largest cable operator in Denmark, has deployed Sigma Systems’ Service Management Platform (SMP) to support the operator’s high-speed data, VoIP and mobile broadband services throughout the country. “Prior to deploying the Service Management Platform, our services were provisioned in silos and activation […]
Pay-TV revenues in Western Europe will not grow between 2011 and 2016 ($36 billion) according to a new report from Digital TV Research Ltd. Report author Simon Murray described the findings as “extraordinary at first glance considering that nine million pay-TV households with be added over the same period,” reaching 107 million by 2016 and […]
Reggefiber, market expert in the deployment and maintenance of FTTH networks in the Netherlands, has confirmed the first FTTH projects using the brand new CORE product line by Genexis, starting in June 2011. Characterized by a contemporary design and a wide range of high-end features, it shows a clear step forward in the area of […]
The time of non-standardized RFoG equipment which has lead to severe problems with early-to market devices has come to an end in December 2010, with the release of the specification 174 by the Society of Cable and Technology and Engineering (SCTE). Trading under the name Fiber.DOCSIS BKtel offers now a set of equipment which complies […]
Britain’s ambitions to have the best superfast broadband in Europe have been hit by a double blow over the past six months according to broadband analysts Point Topic. The roll-out of next-generation broadband technology by BT and alternative networks has lagged a long way behind plans and take-up of the services where they are available […]