Path 1 launches new video over IP gateway
By Vince Vittore
Path 1 Network Technologies today announced that it has developed a new video over IP gateway that will allow network operators to blend real-time, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video in both standard and high definition formats....
SwitchCore throws hat in IP DSLAM ring
By Vince Vittore
SwitchCore AB, a fabless semiconductor company, this week launched a new switch on a chip, based on its enterprise product line, but targeting the IP DSLAM market. ...
Multimedia over coax trials heat home bandwidth battle
By Vince Vittore
MoCA unveils field test of 100 Mb/s technology; Coaxsys enters cable turf...
NCTA Wrap-Up: A reporter's notebook
By Carol Wilson
There is a level of dynamism to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual show that the telephone side of the telecom industry should note. ...
MoCA hits 100 benchmark
By Vince Vittore
The Multimedia Over Coax Alliance (MoCA) today announced that it has finished a series of successful field trials that proved the technology can consistently deliver 100 Mb/s of usable throughput over existing in-home coax cable. ...
Comtrend lands SureWest CPE deal
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...
UNH-IOL hosts bridging event
By Dan O'Shea
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory, a facility receiving increasing acclaim from service providers...
Kasenna cranks up processing power in video server
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...
Can telcos 'entertain' the masses?
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....
Offering the alternative to VPNs
By Vince Vittore
Carriers have been sold on the function and utility of IP-based virtual private networks for some time now...
TDS tabs Entrisphere for triple play
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 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....
Alcatel, Microsoft alliance reshapes IP video ecosystem
By Vince Vittore
Vendor giants formalize working relationship with roots in SBC project...
Amedia, Calix expand ultra high-speed options
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 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...
Ikanos launches 100-Meg symmetric chip
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...
Alcatel, Microsoft link on IP TV
By Vince Vittore
Alcatel and Microsoft announced today that they have entered into a global collaboration agreement designed to speed the availability of IP-based video over broadband networks...
i3 breaks $100 barrier
By Vince Vittore
i3 micro technology this week launched an IP set-top box that marks possibly the first time a unit can be bought for under $100 in volume....
NTCA: Optical Solutions goes long-distance on GPON
By Vince Vittore
SAN ANTONIO--Optical Solutions Inc. this week launched a Gigabit PON optical line terminal that can be placed up to 52 miles from a central office and still provide IP-based triple-play services....
NTCA: Eagle Broadband, GlobeCast offer up turnkey IPTV
By Vince Vittore
San Antonio--Eagle Broadband and France Telecom subsidiary GlobeCast signed a multi-year agreement at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association show here and officially launched a turnkey IPTV service targeting small local incumbents and municipal networks. ...
MetaSwitch ups ante on softswitch
By Vince Vittore
MetaSwitch announced an expansion of its softswitch portfolio to include a high-capacity call agent server, the CA9202, that can handle up to 1 million busy hour call attempts. ...
BellSouth names Alcatel, Redback lead IP vendors
By Vince Vittore
Alcatel and Redback Networks today both announced that they were chosen as primary vendors for BellSouth's next-gen IP network buildout....
IPcelerate adds wireless, messaging to product line
By Vince Vittore
IPcelerate today announced the launch of a new application aimed at providing a link between wireless and wireline messaging. ...
Shenandoah preps for video rollout
By Vince Vittore
Lucent Technologies and Juniper Networks announced they have signed deals with Shenandoah Telecommunications (Shentel) as part of an effort to support future growth of the carrier’s DSL business...
InFocus: The effective reach of high-speed DSL in FTTN applications
By Ellis Reid, Pedestal Networks
The advent of triple-play service offerings from wireline carriers has brought new technical challenges, not the least of which is reaching the subscriber base with the high-bandwidth signals that triple-play services require...
