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Moto gateway supports new home control services
January 5, 2012 2:44 pm | by Brian Santo | Products | CommentsMotorola Mobility will be showing a new gateway in its 4Home series at CES that is designed to integrate a wider range of broadband-based services, including home automation and energy management.
Celeno bows new video-grade Wi-Fi chip
January 5, 2012 2:33 pm | by Mike Robuck | Products | CommentsCeleno Communications will be showing off its new video-grade Wi-Fi chip at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Sigma Designs, Quantenna team on design for networked STB
January 5, 2012 2:30 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsSigma Designs is offering a reference design for a set-top box that incorporates a Wi-Fi router based on Quantenna's 802.11n 4 x 4 MIMO technology.
AT&T to pay $215M to TiVo to settle patent suit
January 4, 2012 1:22 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsAT&T will pay TiVo at least $215 million through June 2018, becoming the latest TV signal provider to settle a patent lawsuit involving the digital video recorder pioneer.
Broadcom gears up for CES with Sling, MoCA 2.0 SoC
January 4, 2012 1:18 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsBroadcom has a full dance card of TV Everywhere and connected home offerings for the International Consumer Electronics Show, including six system-on-a-chip (SoC) MoCA 2.0 products and the integration of Sling Media into a SoC platform.
Roku expands beyond Internet video-streaming boxes
January 4, 2012 1:16 pm | by The Associated Press | Products | CommentsRoku is thinking outside its set-top box in an attempt to bring more Internet video to flat-panel televisions.
SCTE hires Comcast's Davidson as new VP of engineering, network operations
January 3, 2012 2:08 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThe Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has beefed up its engineering team with the news that former Comcast exec Marty Davidson was hired as its vice president of engineering and network operations.
CED’s 2011 Pacesetter Awards
January 1, 2012 1:45 am | by CED Staff | Articles | CommentsThe 2011 class of Pacesetter Award recipients represent innovators in a number of endeavors crucial to the competitive viability of cable operators around the world...
IEEE all-in-one home networking standard progresses
December 21, 2011 1:38 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsIEEE 1905.1, which bridges Wi-Fi, MoCA, Ethernet and HomePlug, takes an important step toward ratification.
Myriad develops an app store for MSOs
December 21, 2011 1:37 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsMyriad Group announced a system that enables MVPDs to run Android apps on set-top boxes. The system includes an app store, developed in conjunction with AppCarousel, that service providers can private label.
Report: Global STB shipments down slightly from 2010
December 21, 2011 1:32 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsDue to the declining number of cable TV subscriber households and tighter capital expenditure budgets by cable operators, the global digital set-top box shipments for this year are on track for a 1 percent decrease from last year.
This Technology develops SpotLink plug-in for FreeWheel
December 20, 2011 2:09 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThis Technology is developing a plug-in for its SpotLink interconnect software that will enable FreeWheel to play in cable’s dynamic ad insertion space with programmers and operators.
Suddenlink offers any-room DVR with TiVo Premiere
December 15, 2011 2:10 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsSuddenlink Communications subscribers that currently enjoy TiVo Premiere in their homes can now pause a recorded program in one room and resume watching it in another.
Alcatel-Lucent provisions 100 Gbps network in S. Amer.
December 15, 2011 1:58 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThanks to gear from Alcatel-Lucent, Cablevision Argentina is laying claim to being the first cable operator in South America to deliver 100 Gbps speeds over an optical network.
Verizon upgrading FiOS IP backbone
December 14, 2011 3:09 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsVerizon will be upgrading the IP backbone of its FiOS service, deploying Cisco CRS-3 carrier routers in several major markets to support 100G transport.
