Exponential growth of 4G LTE coverage and capacity is driving wireless service growth for fixed broadband access, while FTTH, xDSL, and cable technologies reach nearly 50 per cent of global households reorts ABI Research. As 5G standardisation approaches

At the FTTH Conference 2017, Huawei officially released its GigaHome solution designed to help operators build smart and easy-to-use home networks offering a premium service experience for users. At the conference Huawei demonstrated how the GigaHome solution supports multiple digital home applications to deliver a smart home service that gives users convenience, security, accessibility and […]

There was a kind of funny story all over the press here last week. Amazon Echoes in California (where else) started ordering doll’s houses for their owners. In a true case of echoes within echoes, a local TV show in San Diego was reporting how a young girl had told Alexa – the Echo’s operating […]

ADB, a provider of solutions and services for media convergence, has joined the prpl Foundation, an open-source, community-driven, collaborative, non-profit organisation, committed to supporting the next-generation connected devices industry. ADB and the prpl Foundation will work together with the open-source software community to build carrier-grade features into home gateways, and drive innovation across the connected […]

Bob Stanzione, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at entertainment and communications technologist ARRIS, has declared that the set-top box will remain a significant component of the company’s business for quite some time into the future. Speaking during the company’s Q2 2016 Earnings Call, in response to analyst questioning regarding the company’s video product segment, Stanzione […]

Premium in-home wireless systems specialist AirTies Wireless Networks has confirmed that its ultra-performance in-home Wi-Fi products are now available via Frontier Secure, a service of US operator Frontier Communications. As part of the Frontier Secure portfolio of Connected Home solutions, AirTies equipment will enhance customers’ in-home Wi-Fi coverage and speeds, and intelligently route data connections […]

German telecommunications and cable provider NetCologne has selected the ARRIS Touchstone TG2492 Gateway to bring gigabit speeds and superior wireless broadband coverage to its subscribers in the area of Cologne. The ARRIS TG2492 is a EuroDOCSIS gateway designed to deliver ultra-fast broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps and the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fisetting the stage for […]

Charles Cheevers, CTO of ARRIS’s CPE unit, has suggested that future network constraints and content consumption requirements may see an increase in the number of set-top boxes in a household, a viewpoint that challenges the widely-held belief that the growing ubiquity of cloud-based functionality will lead to the disappearance of the STB. According to Cheevers, […]