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- Comcast Takes Wider, Faster Broadband Swing
Looking to keep pace with — if not beat — telco competitors on broadband speeds, Comcast over the next few months plans to make its “wideband” cable-modem service with downloads of up to 50 Megabits per second available to 10 million premises in at least 10 markets. more » » »
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- Cox Takes Another Crack At Wireless
Cox Communications, after scrapping the Pivot mobile phone service developed among a consortium of cable operators this year, announced plans to debut its own refashioned wireless services in the second half of 2009. more » » »
- Startup Has New Way to Yank Cable
Frank Park, Bresnan Communications’ regional vice president of engineering for Montana and Wyoming, was skeptical about the claims from Kabel-X USA. more » » »
- BigBand, Imagine Fail To Reach Patent Settlement
BigBand Networks and Imagine Communications were unable to reach a settlement on BigBand’s patent-infringement lawsuit, and the companies have asked a federal judge to proceed with scheduling for the case. more » » »
- Vyyo Target Of $45 Million Buyout Offer
Vyyo, a struggling vendor of cable bandwidth-expansion systems, is being offered a buyout deal worth about $45 million by an investment consortium led by the company’s former chairman and CEO, Israeli businessman Davidi Gilo. more » » »
- Translation Please: Cable’s Fiber-Deep Options
This being the week of Halloween, it seemed a good time to peer into the web of fiber-optic and coaxial cables that comprise a contemporary HFC (hybrid fiber coax) cable system, to see what lurks there. more » » »
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NDS Group reported an 11% decline in revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30 compared with the year-ago period, citing volume discounts to several large conditional-access customers and currency fluctuations.
Entropic Communications announced it is providing Ethernet-to-coax bridges for certification testing of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance's version 1.1 specification for in-home networking to National Technical Systems (NTS).
The next version of the i-Guide interactive program guide used by Comcast and other cable operators—slated to include Start Over-style features—will be ready for commercial deployment in the second half of 2009.
Harris will integrate its media inventory systems with Google’s TV Ads, which will give cable network and operator customers the option to offer inventory through the Internet giant’s ad-buying portal.
Cablevision Systems said it has more than doubled the reach of its Optimum Wi-Fi wireless Internet access service across the New York City suburbs. |
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