Wireless IPTV opens up in-home opportunities
Telecom service providers in the United States are just beginning to explore using WiFi to deliver their IPTV services, but the service is attractive for more reasons than just a wire-free home...
DSML3 vendors promise to triple VDSL2’s reach
Equipment vendors Actelis Networks and ECI Telecom say they’ve completed the first successful tests of a technology that could triple the reach of VDSL2....
Consolidated, Ruckus take the wires out of IPTV
Independent telco Consolidated Communications (NASDAQ:CNSL) is among the first IPTV providers to remove the wires from its digital TV service through a partnership with WiFi vendor Ruckus Wireless...
Verizon brings enterprise self-help portal to SMBs
Verizon Business is now making its popular Verizon Enterprise Center self-help portal available to small to mid-sized businesses, adding automated features such as click-to-chat for immediate help from customer service representatives. ...
Telecom giants focus on health care business opportunity
Recognizing that the health care industry is a major opportunity for new service revenue, telecom service providers are tailoring their sales approach and, in many cases, creating new sales and customer service organizations designed specifically to create solutions for health care operations. ...
Calix raises $100M, eyeing stimulus
Calix has raised $100 million in new funding in part to help the privately held access equipment vendor take advantage of the federal government’s broadband stimulus program....
Cisco ups the ante at the Ethernet edge
Cisco Systems is announcing the addition of new Ethernet interface cards to its Aggregation Services Router 9000 that set a new industry record for density....
Level 3 eyeing stimulus funding
Touts physical diversity of network, new competition for broadband...
Broadband stimulus gets one-week extension. Is it enough?
Overloaded servers prevent application completion and some folks are starting to panic...
Incumbents smart to watch stimulus funding carefully
Even those who don’t apply should make sure applications by others don’t cross into their footprint...
SureWest switches to Mediaroom for IPTV over copper
SureWest Communications (NASDAQ: SURW) is preparing to deliver IPTV over bonded ADSL2+ lines to some 25,000 homes in its Sacramento, Calif., market...
Home LAN remote management faces customer trust issues
Service providers have tools for remote management, but do they have customer trust?...
Is ‘open’ the new black for telecom?
On the business, consumer and mobile fronts, the open approach holds greater promise ...
US consumer bandwidth is booming, report says
New study shows consumer bandwidth hit 2.4 meg per capita in 2008...
Alcatel-Lucent intros VDSL2 bonding, sleeping modems
Alcatel-Lucent today announced two new innovations in its DSL product line to be available in next year’s first quarter, including support for VDSL2 bonding and modems that power down when not in use to save energy...
Survey says FTTH sells homes
A new survey, commissioned by the FTTH Council, shows fiber-to-the-home-based Internet service is considered the most important amenity for a future home purchase, among home buyers who have had FTTH previously and those who haven’t...
Hatteras extends copper Ethernet reach
Hatteras Networks today introduced repeaters to extend the reach of its Ethernet-over-copper gear in an echo of the move made three years ago by its rival, Actelis Networks...
Broadband stimulus exempted from ‘buy American’ rule
Broadband stimulus applicants need not use US-built equipment...
Sigma sees cable embracing IPTV
Competition from telcos will push new hybrid services, based on gateway technology, as early as 2010...
NSN: Nortel CDMA purchase about customers, not growth
CDMA is a declining market, says Nokia Siemens CEO, but Nortel's CDMA customer base will serve as a launch pad to LTE...
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