The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), the US-based cable engineering and standards body, and the Cologne based ANGA Cable Show, a subsidiary of ANGA Association of German Cable Operators, have revealed cooperation agreement in order to mutually promote, enhance and support their respective congress and exhibition events, SCTE Cable-Tec Expo and the ANGA Cable […]
Minerva Networks, a provider of software solutions, has announced the first customer for its new xTVFusion 5 for broadband TV platform, designed to enable operators to deliver richer IPTV experiences to both high- and low-bandwidth subscribers. MobiNet, business unit of Etex Telephone Cooperative based in Texas. USA, has successfully trialed the delivery of television services […]
Two Lancashire men who sold illegal Virgin Media set-top boxes have been told they must pay up £200,000 each, or spend longer in jail. Imran Khansia, 30, and Rafiq Dudhwala, 27, from the northwest England town of Blackburn, were part of a four-man gang given jail sentences that totalled just under 14 years. The boxes […]
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud optimisation services, has released its 4th Quarter, 2010 State of the Internet report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Internet Platform, the report provides insight into key global Internet statistics such as the world’s fastest and slowest regions for connection speed, the most frequent origins of attack traffic, […]
Bridge Technologies has begun shipping an enhanced version of the ground-breaking microVB miniaturised digital media probe for subscriber premises. With its ability to report second-by-second data on all traffic passing through the set-top box, combined with new functionality for analysing OTT service quality, the microVB 2.0 provides the industry’s most complete capability for monitoring the […]
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately-held BNI Video. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., BNI Video supplies service providers with two major video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network (CDN) analytic capabilities. The cash acquisition – rated at $99 million – will advance the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform, which allows […]
AT&T, the largest US telecommunications group by revenues, reported third-quarter earnings in line with most expectations. Net income fell to $3.62 billion for the July to September period, down from $12.3 billion a year ago when the figures were boosted by a $8.3 billion one-time gain related to the sale of a subsidiary and a […]
Trilithic has announced the availability of a next gen Emergency Alert System (EAS) solution that gives cable, IPTV and broadcast systems all they need to comply with the new Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) guidelines and deliver emergency alerts from the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). A next-generation, CAP-compliant EAS platform, the new EASyCAP […]
The European Commission has proposed to spend almost €9.2 billion from 2014 to 2020 on pan-European projects to give EU citizens and businesses access to high-speed broadband networks and the services that run on them. The funding, part of the proposed Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), would take the form of both equity and debt instruments […]
Cable Europe, the association for Europe’s MSOs was swift to react to Commissioner Neelie Kroes’ recommendation to the European Parliament that €9 billion be spent on broadband infrastructure between 2014 and 2020 through the Connecting Europe Facility. Caroline Van Weede, Managing Director, Cable Europe says: “There is a case for state aid funding to make […]