Harmonic has announced that Astound Broadband, the sixth largest MSO in the US catering to over one million subscribers, has selected the company’s cOS virtualised broadband platform to drive the evolution of its broadband infrastructure. By adopting Harmonic’s virtualised platform, Astound Broadband is taking a leap forward in delivering reliable, high-speed broadband connectivity to subscribers. […]
The percentage of Power User subscribers consuming 1 TB of data or more per month has more than tripled in the past five years as broadband usage closed in on another data milestone in 2024. The findings were reported in the latest edition of the OpenVault Broadband Insights (OVBI) report issued by OpenVault, a source […]
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the industry body dedicated to driving the seamless and interoperable service experience of Wi-Fi across the global wireless ecosystem, has released a set of L4S Implementation Guidelines for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable (L4S) throughput over Wi-Fi networks. The guidelines demonstrate how demand for low-latency Wi-Fi applications such as […]
Point Topic has provided an update on fixed broadband availability in the UK, tracking the progress between the end of 2023 and 2024. The analysis is based on the Thinkpoint broadband availability dataset which includes 1.7 million postcodes. At the end of 2024, the FTTP coverage was 72.9 per cent of the UK total premises, […]
Sky has announced that, from April, its TV and broadband package prices will increase by an average of 6.2 per cent, which it says is “either in line with or lower than other providers”. “Over the last four years, our prices have broadly increased in line with inflation, reflecting our ongoing commitment to fair and […]
The Hebridean islands’ first ultrafast broadband connections are now live in a transformative upgrade by Openreach engineers for the Scottish Government’s ‘Reaching 100% (R100)’ programme. For years, connectivity on the islands has been a challenge due to their location and dispersed populations. Now, the first households and businesses on Tiree can access some of the […]
A report from the Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telecommunications, security, networks and data centre industries, predicts that the broadband access equipment market will grow by 0.8 per cent on average for the next five years (2024-2029), with total revenue expected to peak in 2028, as cable operators and fibre ISPs […]
DE-CIX, the Internet Exchange (IX) operator, has revealed another record-breaking milestone in the amount of global data traffic being exchanged at its locations in 2024. More than 3,400 connected networks exchanged over 68 exabytes of data traffic at DE-CIX’s locations around the world, corresponding to an increase of around 15 per cent compared to the […]
Virgin Media has been named best network in every category of Opensignal’s latest biannual report – including consistent quality, download speed, upload speed, video experience and reliability experience. The report examined the real-world fixed broadband experiences of users across the UK, analysing performance data from July 1st to September 28th, 2024, across 12 different regions. […]
A new fibre extension certification programme is streamlining the deployment of high-performance networks by broadband service providers (BSPs) via a collaboration between two leading standards development organisations. Positron Access Solutions and ReadyLinks have become the first certified system vendors to officially pass the Broadband Forum and HomeGrid Forum’s GHNA (G.hn Access) Certification Programme. The programme […]