Broadband

CableLabs forms security subsidiary

November 5, 2012 2:25 pm | by Brian Santo | News | Comments

The cable industry’s research consortium has formed its first subsidiary, called NetworkFX, to provide companies outside of the cable industry with public key infrastructure (PKI) technology. PKI uses digital certificates to secure broadband connections for networked devices.

Europe opens 2 GHz band for LTE

November 5, 2012 2:15 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | Comments

Wireless providers in Europe will be able to access spectrum in the 2 GHz band for LTE service under a new decision from the European Commission. The rule changes remove restrictions that limited the band to 3G service, effectively opening an additional 120 MHz for LTE.

TWC rolls mobile charging stations into NYC; Cablevision re-groups

November 2, 2012 2:26 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

With tensions mounting in some of the areas that saw the biggest impact from Hurricane Sandy, Time Warner Cable and other service providers are rushing into the morass to fix their triple-play services and ease subscribers’ frustrations.

@ 4G World: 3GPP reports progress on LTE Release 12

November 2, 2012 2:20 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | Comments

Speaking during a panel discussion on the future of LTE, Asok Chatterjee said the standard’s update is set to include Wi-Fi offload, methods to minimize drive tests, enhanced self-organizing network technology and methods to improve the technology's use for M2M, among other items.

Cogeco grows; market is ‘maturing’

November 2, 2012 2:16 pm | by Brian Santo | News | Comments

Cogeco Cable reported higher revenue but lower profit, a decrease attributed largely to higher taxes resulting from changes in Canada’s tax code. Revenue in the company’s fourth quarter increased by 6.2 percent to reach $324.8 million; profit was $45.7 million.

Live From Cable-Tec Expo - Ciena

November 2, 2012 1:28 pm | by CED Magazine | Videos | Comments

CED contributor Stewart Schley interviews Barry Zipp, industry marketing director at Ciena, which had a race car on hand to demonstrate the need for speed with service delivery, agility and assurance at this year's SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 in Orlando.

Live From Cable-Tec Expo - SeaChange

November 2, 2012 1:20 pm | by CED Magazine | Videos | Comments

CED contributor Stewart Schley interviews Steve Davi, CTO at SeaChange International, and talks about the company's "third wave" of a dramatic transformation, "the third seachange at SeaChange," at this year's SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 in Orlando.

Live From Cable-Tec Expo - VeEx

November 2, 2012 1:12 pm | by CED Magazine | Videos | Comments

CED contributor Stewart Schley interviews Cyrille Morelle, CEO of VeEx, and discusses the company's role in the business services market, and how customers are looking for service-level agreements (SLAs), at this year's SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 in Orlando.

Live From Cable-Tec Expo - Times Fiber

November 2, 2012 1:04 pm | by CED Magazine | Videos | Comments

CED contributor Stewart Schley interviews Bryan Blunt, director of product development at Amphenol Times Fiber, at this year's SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 in Orlando. The company had an oxygen bar at the show, to show that oxygen is good for the body but not for the cable plant, but Times Fiber can help with that.

Live From Cable-Tec Expo - SCTE

November 1, 2012 4:26 pm | by CED Magazine | Videos | Comments

CED Editor-in-Chief Brian Santo talks with Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers President and CEO Mark Dzuban about the new and exciting things happening at the organization that hosted SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2012 in Orlando.

Muni broadband with a twist

November 1, 2012 2:25 pm | by Brian Santo | Blogs | Comments

Chicago intends to do what no American city even remotely its size has ever pulled off – get a municipal broadband network built. There isn’t a city in the country that doesn’t want better broadband infrastructure. Several cities, tiring of waiting for the market to create those networks, have attempted to build their own.

@ 4G World: AT&T exec dishes on small cells, SON, DAS

November 1, 2012 2:24 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | Comments

AT&T network technology executive Kris Rinne told a packed crowd yesterday that the operator's early small cell deployments showed promise, but some hurdles still remain. But there's still a lot of optimization that needs to be done, Rinne said.

AT&T mixes in iOS version of cloud-based video/photo-sharing app

November 1, 2012 2:22 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

After previously launching its cloud-based storage service on Android devices, AT&T announced that users with iOS devices can now store their photos, music, documents and videos on its cloud storage platform. AT&T’s Locker is now available for downloading via Apple’s App Store.

Boxee with network DVR on sale

November 1, 2012 2:19 pm | by Brian Santo | News | Comments

Boxee began selling the new version of its set-top that combines network DVR, live TV and Internet apps – a set of over-the-top video services. At least initially, Boxee TV will be available exclusively in Wal-Mart stores, and online at Walmart.com and on the company’s own website.

FCC: Communications slowly improving after Sandy

November 1, 2012 2:17 pm | by The Associated Press | News | Comments

Cell towers knocked out by Superstorm Sandy were slowly coming back to life, federal regulators said, but about 1 in 5 were still out of service in a storm-hit area stretching from Virginia to Massachusetts. That compares with 1 in 4 cell towers that were out of service the day after the storm made landfall.