Archive for August, 2010
Time Warner Cable hasn’t exactly set land speed records with their deployment of DOCSIS 3.0 technology, only deploying faster services “tactically,” in markets where the company competes with Verizon FiOS. In New York City, where Time Warner Cable competes with FiOS, they have upgraded — and are now bragging that they have 150 HD channels [...]
FiberLight believes the Charlottesville, Va. market has a lot of growth potential so it has decided to take its optical network into the region. Building what it claims will provide a low-latency diverse network route to traditional businesses, government, education and carriers, the competitive provider has started to build a 46-mile direct underground fiber network [...]
As momentum builds around integrating IPv6 capabilities into home gateways, the Home Gateway Initiative has decided to hold a second test event at the end of the year. Set to be held from November 22 to December 3 in the UK, HGI’s second test event will focus on the performance and capabilities of the Home [...]
Fibertech has confirmed that its investors Nautic Partners and Ridgemont Equity Partners are selling the company for $500 million to Court Square. According to the terms of the deal, which the companies say will be completed in the second half of this year after meeting customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, Court Square will acquire [...]
BT Wholesale’s (NYSE: BT) aggressive network rollouts have paid off as the service provider now runs over five million broadband users on its Wholesale Broadband Managed Connect (WBMC) over IPStream Connect service. The service provider reached the five million mark after it transferred 230,000 customers onto IPStream Connect at its Ilford exchange. Providing connectivity to [...]
Huawei has upped its presence in the North American technology community by becoming a member of the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI). Joining OCRI, an organization set on fostering economic development and technology innovations, is just one of many activities Huawei has recently taken to gain a larger foothold in the Tier 1 [...]
MIT researchers have created solar-powered bots that collect oil floating on water after a spill. The Seaswarm bots use a nanofiber that absorbs up to 20 times their weight in oil.
It seems like only last April that Verizon was calling 3DTV sports broadcasts “hype” (because it was, and they were). That’s a fairly far cry from their sudden devotion to 3DTV this week, as the company works with Cisco to highlight the work they’re doing to broadcast the first NFL Game in 3D from New [...]
AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) may continue to tout the capabilities and growth their respective U-verse and FiOS deployments, but a DSL Prime report revealed that both service providers actually cut back on wireline broadband spending this year. Thus far, Verizon reduced its wireline capex budget by about $2 billion this year and [...]
Broadband bundle packages are turning into a buyer’s market as more wireline operators are forced to reduce prices to better compete mobile broadband services. A new Analysys Mason report, which tracked over 1,000 wireline broadband bundles in Europe and the U.S., revealed that wireline broadband bundle (single, double or triple-play package) prices declined about $6 [...]