FTTH network builders can significantly reduce the amount of expensive optical fibre they throw away thanks to a new initiative from French cabling experts, ACOME Group. Every day, broadband companies waste on average 10 per cent of the full fibre cable they deploy owing to a lack of knowledge of how much cable they have available […]
The Syndeo Institute at The Cable Center will honour six visionaries in the world of media and entertainment at the 28th annual Cable Hall of Fame celebration, a red-carpet event at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City on April 24th 2025. The 2025 honorees, selected for their leadership and impact in the connectivity, content, […]
Streaming services are the way to enjoy shows these days—there’s no debating it. ‘Streaming wars’ have become the new form of competition for viewership. Traditional broadcasters seem to have lost their grip, and it is clear why: streaming services offer more choices, and on-demand content makes it hard for cable to compete. How Streaming Became […]
Advertising intelligence company AdImpact has launched an industry-wide TV intelligence platform, building off the foundation established by AdImpact’s political advertising intelligence, that brings broadcast, cable and CTV advertising and market intelligence at the local level to advertisers across industries. Given the increasing fragmentation of the television industry with the proliferation of CTV, advertisers and media […]
CommScope has won the auction for busted rival Casa System’s cable network assets with a knockout $45.1 million (€41.4m) bid. That price was more than twice the $20 million tabled in April by Canadian software company Vecima Networks. Vecima, which had hoped Casa’s assets would accelerate its quest to run down Harmonic in the race […]
Sunrise reports it has more than doubled the speed of its hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network. “Fast and reliable Internet is a basic need, not only in cities, but throughout Switzerland. That’s why we’re more than doubling the Internet speed on our hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network, to which around 80 per cent of Swiss households are […]
An invisible DNA marker that links criminals to crime scenes is playing a key role in helping UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach clamp down on cable thefts. The number of incidents, which often cause widespread phone and broadband disruption, dropped last year across the UK by more than 30 per cent. But Openreach’s security team […]
Vecima Networks has entered into an asset purchase agreement (APA) to acquire the Cable Business assets of Casa Systems and certain of Casa’s subsidiaries. Under the APA, Vecima, or its affiliates, will acquire substantially all the assets of Casa’s Cable Business for a purchase price of $20 million (€18.4m). To facilitate the sale, Casa and […]
The number of pay-TV subscribers in Eastern Europe will decline by 8 million from 81 million in the peak year of 2018 to 74 million in 2029 according to the Eastern Europe Pay TV Forecasts report from analyst firm Digital TV Research. However, 2018 included 17 million analogue cable subscribers, which will drop to zero […]
CMC Networks, a global Tier 1 service provider, has added Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite connectivity to its portfolio of solutions. This multi-orbit approach addresses the diverse connectivity needs of remote regions and challenging environments across Africa and the Middle East, removing the limits on digital transformation. […]