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Virgin Media adds 6000+ subs

Virgin Media has won back 6,300 cable customers in the third quarter of 2011, partly making up for losses of 36,000 over the summer after students disconnected for the holidays. Financial results showed that revenues grew 2.2 per cent to £1 billion year on year, marking a 3.3 per cent rise for the first nine […]

October 27, 2011

FTC ensures TV quality and operational cost savings with Mariner’s service monitoring solution

Farmers Telephone Cooperative(FTC) has deployed xVu, Mariner’s award-winning IPTV service assurance platform. This end-to-end solution ensures quality of TV experience to FTC’s customers while providing operational cost savings through performance insight all the way back to the head-end. FTC has taken advantage of Mariner’s xVu product suite (SupportVu, NetworkVu and ReportVu), from the TV service […]

October 27, 2011

Sandvine: Entertainment in Post-PC Era

Intelligent broadband network solutions provider Sandvine has released its 10th Global Internet Phenomena Report: Fall 2011, which indicates increased Netflix and OTT services adoption, the market penetration of revenue-replacement applications, the overall increase in mobile marketplaces, and the impact of Internet-ready consumer electronics devices. Major findings from the report include: -Within fixed networks in the […]

October 26, 2011

SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, ANGA Cable Show in co-promotion pact

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 […]

October 26, 2011

Minerva for TV over 4G trials

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 […]

October 26, 2011

Fraudsters scam Virgin Media

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 […]

October 25, 2011By Chris Forrester

Akamai State of the Internet report

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, […]

October 24, 2011

Bridge Technologies enhances microVB with OTT analytics

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 […]

October 24, 2011

Cisco buys BNI Video to boost Videoscape

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 […]

October 21, 2011

AT&T surpasses 3.5m IPTV subs

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 […]

October 21, 2011