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Suddenlink selects ARRIS Wi-Fi solution

Suddenlink has selected ARRIS’s Service Provider Wi-Fi solution to deliver carrier-grade Wi-Fi to its commercial customers throughout its 17-state area. ARRIS’s turnkey Service Provider Wi-Fi solution enables Suddenlink to provide its commercial customers with a simple Wi-Fi experience that offers seamless hand-offs between Wi-Fi zones. “Our customers are always looking for new ways to stay […]

October 14, 2015

SK Broadband deploys Cisco CCAP

Cisco has announced an agreement with SK Broadband to deploy a next-generation converged cable access platform (CCAP) across its national footprint. SK Broadband is a Tier 1 Internet broadband service provider in Korea with five million subscribers. With the DOCSIS 3.1 capabilities of the Cisco cBR-8, SK Broadband can immediately expand Gigabit or multi-Gigabit services […]

October 14, 2015

China drives broadband CPE growth

Insight and analytics source IHS has raised its outlook for the broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) market, which includes DSL, cable, fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), residential gateways and mobile broadband CPE. In a September report, the firm noted it increased its 2019 worldwide broadband CPE forecast by 8 per cent, to $12.4 billion. “The primary source for […]

September 24, 2015

Need for speed drives growth in Ethernet market

Growth in Ethernet switching continues, with worldwide revenue up 9 percent sequentially in the second quarter of 2015, reaching a total of $5.6 billion, according to the IHS Infonetics Ethernet Switches report. “A rebound in North America and China, coupled with strong uptake of 40GE solutions in data center environments, drove Ethernet switch revenue in […]

September 18, 2015

Operators split on virtualising residential gateways

IHS has conducted in-depth interviews with service providers across the globe who use residential gateways to provide broadband services and found that only 31 per cent of respondents plan on virtualising their residential gateways by 2017. “Despite the obvious benefits of virtualising residential gateways in the home-namely shortening of provisioning time and elimination of truck […]

September 17, 2015

Turksat selects Arris router

Arris Group has announced that Turksat, Turkey’s leading satellite communications and cable TV operator, has selected its E6000 Converged Edge Router (CER) to prepare for future IP interactivity and higher speed broadband services. Turksat said it selected the E6000 CER to support today’s CMTS requirements and also to support the company’s strategic transition to Converged […]

September 17, 2015

Netgem launches ‘Fiber & TV’ solution

Netgem, a provider of telcoTV, has announced its ‘Fiber & TV as a service’ solution bringing TV services and unlimited premium content at  a super fast speed of 200 Mbps, thanks to FTTH technology. The solution provides immediate access to the world of sophisticated TV (multicast bouquet, premium unicast channels, TVoD, SVoD, EST, Replay services, […]

September 4, 2015

BT connects first G.fast trial customers

Residents of Huntingdon – a market town in Cambridgeshire – have became the first people in the UK to take part in the field trial of a new type of ultrafast broadband technology from BT which will allow people to stream live ultra-high-definition 4K video content to multiple devices at once. The trial, which is […]

August 25, 2015By Colin Mann

RDK: The worldwide route to TV Everywhere?

Major international cable service providers are backing RDK and Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global, has said it is as transformational as DOCSIS. So, is RDK set to become a world standard for CPE as cable ups the innovation rate to try and match OTT challengers? Advanced Television gathered four top executives to debate the […]

August 20, 2015

Broadband CPE shipments to reach 153.6m in 2015

Worldwide broadband customer premise equipment (CPE) shipments are expected to reach 153.6 million by the end of 2015, according to ABI Research. “Fibre-optic broadband CPE device shipments are expected to increase

August 13, 2015