:: Broadband News Archive ::
IPTV World Forum: How important is the user interface?
By: By Sarah Reedy
Jeff Campbell, general manager of cable operator Express High-Speed Internet, was one of the few faces of the cable industry at the IPTV World Forum this week in Chicago. ...
DPI: A scorned technology that’s thriving
By: By Carol Wilson
Deep packet inspection (DPI) technology has been denounced in the halls of Congress, reviled by consumer protection groups as a means of invading privacy and singled out by net neutrality backers as proof that large Internet service providers are up to no good....
DPI: The good, the bad, the stuff no one talks about
By: By Carol Wilson
Few technologies get their own Congressional hearings, but deep packet inspection is proving to be no ordinary technology. And even if the July 17th House Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing o...
Aircell on board for in-flight LTE
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Yet another CDMA operator has thrown in its lot with the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) camp, though it’s not among the traditional service providers...
Broadweave buying Houston FTTP network
By: By Ed Gubbins
A Texas bankruptcy court on Wednesday is expected to approve the sale of Eagle Broadband’s IPTV business to Canadian carrier Interworld Telecommunications and the sale of its Houston-area fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network to Broadweave Networks....
Alcatel-Lucent seeks US telemedicine partner
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent is searching for a US service provider partner to help deliver a new telemedicine application it developed with Canadian carrier SaskTel....
Yankee: Carriers likely to acquire CDNs
By: By Carol Wilson
While Akamai currently dominates the world of content delivery networks (CDN), a leading analyst firm believes service providers such as AT&T, British Telecom and Verizon will soon be playing in that sandbox...
AT&T pushes U-Verse into muni fiber hotbed
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T’s deployment of U-Verse services in Tennessee, commenced this week, could provide an unusual showcase of three-way competition in the country’s most active hotbed for municipal fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP)....
Bandwidth: How much is enough?
By: By Jonathan Hurd, Altman Vilandrie & Company
Verizon’s June announcement that it will expand availability of its 50 megabit per second (Mbps) FiOS broadband service has prompted some to ask, “How much bandwidth could a household need?” To estimate the demand, various analysts have attempted to calculate a household’s future maximum peak bandwidth requirements...
Flash gets searchable, widening use
By: Rich Karpinski
Adobe’s Flash technology provides a “flashy” user interface for Web sites, set-top boxes, cell phone and video content but with one important caveat – unlike HTML, Flash content was not able to be spidered and indexed by search engines....
VZW rhapsodizes on music
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless is no longer tackling the mobile music market solely under its own brand, announcing today the long-awaited paring of its mobile music service with RealNetworks....
DigitalBridge WiMAX goes mobile in Wyoming
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Earlier this month the first WiMAX network in the US to support true mobility went live commercially, but it wasn’t a Sprint or Clearwire network. DigitalBridge Communications gains that honor...
Google links PC, living room devices
By: Rich Karpinski
If you’ve already got hardware on your desktop and in your living room, Google wants to connect these two worlds with a simple – and free – piece of software, the Google Media Server....
What happened in Vegas
By: By Carol Wilson
NXTcomm08 had hoped to establish itself as the telecom industry's premiere event, replacing Supercomm and its successor shows. Under a very hot Las Vegas...
Darkstrand lights up supercomputing apps
By: By Ed Gubbins
Chicago-based Darkstrand emerged from relative obscurity this month, buying half the capacity of the National Lambda Rail, a high-bandwidth 12,000-mile...
Home-network innovations aid connectivity, self-installation
By: By Carol Wilson
In-home installation and networking remains the hardest part of IPTV, so it’s no wonder that vendors are looking to innovate in that arena. ...
Video exacerbates P2P problem, Sandvine says
By: By Carol Wilson
Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is still growing and remains the largest single bandwidth consumer, according to the latest analysis of traffic by broadband equipment vendor Sandvine. ...
Speakeasy joins XO Ethernet resellers
By: By Ed Gubbins
XO Communications has branched out its Ethernet-over-copper offerings, enlisting a growing number of resellers in recent months including Speakeasy, a unit of Best Buy that also regularly competes with XO in some markets...
AT&T, Microsoft team on national e-health care
By: By Carol Wilson
The new healthcare initiative launched today by AT&T, Microsoft and Covisint is intended to enable patients to take more control over their medical care, improve that care at a lower cost and communicate more easily with their doctors. ...
NXTcomm08: Sandvine creating DPI ecosystem
By: By Kevin Fitchard
LAS VEGAS--Sandvine has launched a partnership program through which it seeks to integrate its deep packet inspection (DPI) technologies with myriad other network-based applications...
NXTcomm08: CableLabs CEO calls for telco, cableco cooperation
By: By Carol Wilson
The telecom and cable industries need to cooperate in supporting the U.S. State Department in its plan for the quadrennial reorganization of the ITU-T, the global telecom standards body...
NXTcomm08: Telecom innovation at risk, Infinera’s Singh says
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Innovation within the telecommunications industry is at risk because of lower R&D spending, particularly at the component level, said Jagdeep Singh, president and CEO of Infinera, Thursday to the NXTcomm08 keynote audience. ...
NXTcomm08: Pet care among the possibilities of home networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
LAS VEGAS--In the future, will telecom providers care for your dog when you travel?...
NXTcomm08: Breaking the Internet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Internet is going to break—at least that’s what half of the people polled by Tellabs and IDC on the NXTcomm08 show floor believe. ...
Strigl: U.S. telecom industry unfairly maligned
By: By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS--Verizon President and COO Denny Strigl took on the critics of the U.S. telecom industry Wednesday in his NXTcomm08 keynote speech, saying the U.S. leads the world in broadband and mobile “in the ways that count”...
