Findings from media and communications sector financial intelligence specialist SNL Kagan suggest that global set-top box (STB) shipments maintained elevated levels in 2015, buoyed by demand in emerging markets such as China and India. Worldwide STB shipments are on track to reach 253.1 million in 2015, up marginally from 248.6 million in 2014, as the […]
Heralding a new generation of broadband services, CableLabs, the research and development lab for the cable industry, has confirmed that five cable modem vendors have achieved the first DOCSIS 3.1 certifications. Newly certified products from Askey, Castlenet, Netgear, Technicolor and Ubee Interactive provide cable operators with critical components for a new generation of DOCSIS 3.1 […]
ARRIS International, the new parent company of ARRIS Group, has completed its $2.1 billion (€1.94bn) acquisition of Pace – combining the two companies’ strengths in entertainment and communications delivery. The transaction combines the strengths of both companies on a global scale—broadening ARRIS’s worldwide CPE leadership with a competitive stake in satellite communications; leveraging new synergies […]
A report on consumer fixed broadband performance in the United States – Measuring Broadband America – prepared by the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau reports “significant growth” in broadband speeds and in the uptake of these higher speeds by consumers, though results are not uniform across technologies. “Spurred […]
US cable MSO Comcast is claiming a world first with the installation of what the company believes to be the world’s first gigabit DOCSIS 3.1 modem on a customer-facing network. “The next-generation technology that will deliver gigabit Internet speeds moved from the laboratory to the living room late last month,” wrote Tony Werner, Executive Vice […]
ARRIS has confirmed that the High Court of Justice in England and Wales has conditionally sanctioned the scheme of arrangement pursuant to which ARRIS will acquire Pace plc in a $2.1 billion (€1.96bn) deal. Subject to the expiration of the mandatory waiting period with respect to the previously announced approval granted by Brazil’s completion Authority […]
Advanced video compression solutions provider Thomson Video Networks – currently backed by the private equity partner Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners – has received a binding offer from video delivery infrastructure specialist Harmonic to acquire 100 per cent of the company for $75 million (€69m). The combined company would establish Harmonic with clear market share […]
Internet users in Germany will soon be able to choose which modem or router to use for their broadband connection. The German government has abolished ISP locking. Until now some network operators approved only their own routers or modems on connections they provided. As a result, users had to make do without certain functions and […]
Qwilt, a provider of online video delivery and open video caching solutions, has announced that MyRepublic, an ultra-fast Internet service provider in Singapore and New Zealand, has chosen Qwilt’s open caching solution to help boost network capacity and improve the quality OTT video service delivery. Upon deploying Qwilt’s open caching solution, MyRepublic was able to […]
Communications technology specialist ARRIS Group has confirmed that the US Department of Justice has closed its investigation, without condition, under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 for ARRIS’s proposed $2.1 billion (€1.96bn) acquisition of digital TV and broadband technology solutions provider Pace plc. ARRIS and Pace have previously received the required clearances from regulators […]