Comtrend lands SureWest CPE deal
By: By Vince Vittore
Comtrend said SureWest Communications is using its CT562+, ADSL2+ four-port Router as part of its expanded triple-play video services offering to customers in the Sacramento area...
Competitors fight amid duopoly fear
By: By Carol Wilson
For every successful rebound in the competitive service provider world, small firms bend under the weight of ruthless cable/telco competition...
UNH-IOL hosts bridging event
By: By Dan O'Shea
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory, a facility receiving increasing acclaim from service providers...
New, neutral group advocates local broadband networks
By: By Vince Vittore
Community Telestructure Initiative gains support from other organizations...
Kasenna cranks up processing power in video server
By: By Vince Vittore
Kasenna announced today it is launching a new video server based on Intel’s 64-bit Xeon processors that allows the company to significantly increase its streaming throughput...
Metalink takes down revenue estimates, shakes up management
By: By Vince Vittore
VDSL chip vendor Metalink announced today that it is revising its first-quarter revenue estimates down and appointing two new executives...
Can telcos 'entertain' the masses?
By: By Vince Vittore
With the incursion of competition from cable operators, carriers have launched high risk/high reward strategies that will put them into the center of the entertainment universe....
Coaxsys goes customer collecting
By: By Vince Vittore
Coaxsys announced this week that it has landed its 20th telco customer just a few months after it first launched its TVnet product....
Pioneer Tel picks Calix for IP video rollout
By: By Vince Vittore
Calix announced today that Pioneer Telephone has deployed its C7 multiservice access platform as part of an IP video service deployment. ...
Offering the alternative to VPNs
By: By Vince Vittore
Carriers have been sold on the function and utility of IP-based virtual private networks for some time now...
Fast Net Futures questions current telco video models
By: By Vince Vittore
Business model for delivering triple-play services still uncertain...
Fast Net Futures: Vendor consolidation inevitable
By: By Vince Vittore
SAN JOSE--The consolidation of carriers over the next several years will inevitably force the vendor market to follow suit, according to speakers this morning at Fast Net Futures...
VON: AccessLine launches business VoIP
By: By Vince Vittore
AccessLine Communications announced today that it is launching a new voice-over-IP service geared at small businesses. ...
Arroyo racks up $12 million, names new CEO
By: By Vince Vittore
Video-on-demand vendor Arroyo Video Solutions announced today that it has completed a series B funding round totaling $12 million. ...
TDS tabs Entrisphere for triple play
By: By Vince Vittore
Entrisphere today announced that TDS Telecom has signed a multi-year deal to deploy its BLM 1500 multiplexer as part of its soon-to-be-launched triple-play service. ...
Adtran expands into PoE
By: By Vince Vittore
Adtran this week is launching its first power over Ethernet switch-router as well as announcing the addition of 802.3af PoE functionality to its line of Ethernet switches....
VOD to get rating system
By: By Carol Wilson
Cablevision Systems is teaming with Rentrak Corp. to create a ratings system for video-on-demand intended to encourage development of more content. ...
Alcatel, Microsoft alliance reshapes IP video ecosystem
By: By Vince Vittore
Vendor giants formalize working relationship with roots in SBC project...
New reports suggest 2005 as critical to growth of BPL
By: By Ed Gubbins
Doubt remains over lack of standard and pace of utility deployment...
Hargray deploys Integra5's UniTV product
By: By Vince Vittore
Integra5 Communications will announce this week that Hargray Communications has deployed its UniTV Visual Telephony product...
Amedia, Calix expand ultra high-speed options
By: By Vince Vittore
Amedia and Calix both announced today that they are expanding access platforms to include VDSL and fiber to the premises options, respectively...
MoCA picking up steam with telcos
By: By Vince Vittore
The Multimedia Over Coax Alliance is quickly emerging as one of the preferred solutions for carriers trying to solve the issue of getting video over IP from the side of the house to set-top boxes...
Institutions invest $3.2 billion more in equipment sector
By: By Ed Gubbins
Institutional investors increased their positions in the telecom equipment sector by about $3.2 billion in the fourth quarter, according to Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Joe Chiasson...
Ikanos launches 100-Meg symmetric chip
By: By Vince Vittore
Ikanos Communications today said it has developed the first programmable chip set that can provide speeds up to 100 Mb/s in both upstream and downstream directions over a single copper line...
