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Qwilt, Procera partner for caching

Qwilt, a provider of online video delivery and transparent caching solutions, and Procera Networks, the global Internet Intelligence company, have announced a partnership to offer network operators a best-of-breed transparent caching and Internet Intelligence solution that addresses network challenges resulting from the rapid growth and consumption of online video. Qwilt’s QB-Series transparent caching technology and […]

February 25, 2014

ADB ships 50m devices

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has shipped its 50 millionth device. With each broadband gateway featuring 30 million lines of code and the new Wideband set-top box 100 million lines, ADB’s software engineers’ code would now stretch to the edge of our solar system. Every year, 55 million TV viewers consume 80 billion hours of TV […]

February 24, 2014

Tilgin strengthens Flexible Premises Portfolio with new advanced Home Gateways

Tilgin, a provider of solutions for multi-play and next-generation broadband access, announces the launch of new Home Gateways at the FTTH Council Europe Conference, from 18 – 20 February 2014, at Stockholmsmässan, Stockholm. Tilgin’s flexible premises solution is an all-encompassing concept that offers operators a simplified option for the deployment and maintenance of their FTTH […]

February 18, 2014

Cisco: 11-fold increase in mobile data traffic to 2018

According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2013 to 2018, worldwide mobile data traffic will increase nearly 11-fold over the next four years and reach an annual run rate of 190 exabytes by 2018. The projected increase in mobile traffic is partly

February 6, 2014

New patented method for broadband delivery

DTVCast, a  developer of wireless broadband technology, has been granted a patent that enhances the use of UHF broadcast TV spectrum for high speed broadband and content delivery services. Through the use of sectorisation of TV spectrum, the new patented method quadruples the broadband throughput capacity of a single existing or new broadcast TV channel […]

January 30, 2014

Entropic solutions for India pay-TV market

Entropic, an expert in semiconductor solutions for the connected home, announced the availability of its award-winning c.LINK Broadband Access products for the India Pay-TV market. Entropic will have its Broadband Access products on display at the 22nd Convergence India 2014 Conference, held in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, from January 21-23, 2014. Entropic’s c.LINK technology is […]

January 21, 2014

Pace: 2013 ahead of guidance

Pay-TV and broadband service provider technology provider Pace has announced an unaudited update for the financial year ended December 31st 2013 ahead of preliminary results to be announced on March 4th 2014 which suggests that its Full Year 2013 performance is expected to be ahead of guidance. Pace reports that: Full year revenues expected to […]

January 9, 2014

SoftAtHome gives wings to Ultra-Fast 1Gbps Internet-Box

SoftAtHome, provider of home operating platforms enabling convergent services for the Digital Home, has announced that its software is powering the ultra-fast 1Gbps Home Gateway for Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms provider. The Internet-Box, launched in November 2013, is available to Swisscom residential customers for browsing the Internet at speeds up to 1 Gbps over the […]

January 8, 2014

Cisco floats Videoscape into the Cloud

In a further move distancing video delivery services away from the customer’s set-top box and the operator’s network infrastructure, Cisco has announced an expansion of its Videoscape TV services delivery platform to include a host of new cloud video capabilities, including an industry-first Videoscape ‘as-a-service’ offering and open cloud software technologies based on OpenStack. These […]

January 7, 2014By Colin Mann

Qualcomm boosts Ultra HD TVs, STBs

Qualcomm’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, has revealed the Qualcomm Snapdragon 802 processor, the first fully integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed for next-generation Smart TVs, smart set-top boxes and smart digital media adapters. The Snapdragon 802 processor is designed to power the latest smart TV experiences at Ultra HD resolution, including seamless decoding of Ultra HD video […]

January 7, 2014