Verizon uses 3M’s One Pass for MDU fiber
New packaging of in-building fiber uses 3M adhesives for easier, more aesthetic installation of fiber-to-the-apartment...
Fiber finds 5.3 million North American homes
More than 1.5 million North American homes subscribed to fiber-to-the-home last year, bringing the total to 5.3 million, according to the latest study for the FTTH Council by RVA Market Research....
DSM promotes global standards for fiber coatings
Inferior coatings are leading to field failures, company warns...
What Nortel’s 3G/4G assets will do for Ericsson
Nortel Networks’ long-term evolution (LTE) advances and the size and profitability of its CDMA unit are both good reasons for Ericsson to scoop up the bankrupt vendor’s primary 3G and 4G businesses, but Ericsson vice president and head of radio networks Ulf Ewaldsson has a reason that trumps them all: North America is simply where things are happening....
Verizon CTO sees eventual move to metered broadband
Lynch tells FTTH Council broadband metering is inevitable to fund Internet expansion...
Rural telcos, utilities should partner on smart grids
Combining their traditional assets, such as utility company rights of way and external power capabilities with telcos’ intelligent networks and data-gathering abilities enables both sides to reduce costs and potentially generate new revenues...
FTTH deployments face predatory cable pricing
Two local organizations that have succeeded in building fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks say they are still facing challenges in the form of highly competitive pricing from a cable incumbent, Cox Communications...
CenturyLink picks Calix GPON for mobile backhaul
CenturyLink is using Calix technology to offer fiber-bed mobile backhaul services to wireless carriers with cell towers in the CenturyLink footprint, marking the largest deployment of this type to date for Calix, the vendor announced today...
Windstream fights to change broadband stimulus rules
Net neutrality and other rules are discouraging the best prospects for broadband expansion, Windstream’s CEO said in an exclusive interview...
How big are Zayo’s big-city ambitions?
Two years and twelve acquisitions later, Zayo is more of a big-city carrier, and it’s not done buying its way to become even bigger....
Smart Grid Series, Part 4: How standards will shape the grid
With the plethora of partnerships, devices and new technologies that the smart grid calls for, the need for standards is real and urgent – so urgent that expediting the smart grid rollout is amongst the Obama administration’s top priorities...
ZillionTV adds direct-to-consumer sales, Skitter tries its hand
ZillionTV has been quietly running trials and speaking to service providers in the past six months since announcing its on-demand video service in March...
4G World: Motorola’s Brda says LTE won’t kill WiMax
This year’s Yankee Group 4G World is all-inclusive of 4G technologies WiMax and long-term evolution (LTE), but whether the two can co-exist has long been a topic of debate – one that is largely irrelevant, according to Motorola (NYSE:MOT)...
4G World: MetroPCS to transfer cord-cutter strategy to 4G
MetroPCS (NYSE:PCS) has apparently been so successful in its pursuit of ‘cord-cutters’ for its wireless voice service, it plans to take the same approach to 4G data. When it launches it long-term evolution (LTE) network in late 2010...
Telecom carriers too slow in home automation
The home network may be the next frontier for telecom service providers, but one major home automation company is seeing interest without action when it comes to deploying new technology...
Applying technology to getting medical tests right
One of the major targets of enabling health care to be more efficient is making sure patients get the right kind of medical testing done, and that no unnecessary or repetitive testing is done. HealthHelp, a Houston-based organization...
Debating 40G and 100G economics
Two years ago, carriers complaining about the cost of networking equipment based on 40-Gb/s interfaces threatened to leapfrog the technology and migrate from 10 Gb/s links directly to 100 Gb/s links...
Broadband in a Box wins first CLEC
Broadband in a Box has its first CLEC customer...
Global home gateway group adds modularity, energy efficiency
The Home Gateway Initiative, a global organization founded primarily by European telecom operators, this week unveiled new plans to make home gateways more modular, more energy-efficient and more capable of diagnosing problems in the home network...
Will pay TV providers shut down Hulu?
One of pay TV providers’ biggest fears -- video cord-cutting in favor of Internet video – may have seemed chillingly more real as comScore ...
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