Voice

Arris posts solid Q2 CPE sales, Cisco still leads CMTS pack

October 5, 2012 1:50 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

Bolstered by DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades in North America, Arris posted strong revenue growth for customer premise equipment in the second quarter of this year while Cisco is still the leader of the pack for cable modem termination revenue. ZTE edged Huawei to take the No. 1 spot for broadband CPE revenue market share.

In the media: Charter’s move to Stamford hits a snag

October 4, 2012 12:38 pm | News | Comments

Members of Charter Communications’ executive team can hold off on packing their bags for now as the headquarters move from St. Louis to Stamford, Conn. hit a temporary delay. A package to aid Charter’s move from Missouri to Stamford was pulled off of the State Bond Commission’s agenda yesterday due to inaccurate numbers

T-Mobile USA, MetroPCS merger confirmed

October 3, 2012 2:05 pm | by Andrew Berg, Wireless Week | News | Comments

T-Mobile USA's strategy to get back on track after regulators shot down the proposed AT&T merger. The next step appears to be yet another proposed merger, this time with prepaid carrier MetroPCS. Deutsche Telekom on Wednesday confirmed an agreement to combine T-Mobile and MetroPCS.

Charter to move HQ from St. Louis to Stamford, Conn.

October 2, 2012 12:25 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

Charter Communications is pulling up stakes and moving its headquarters from the St. Louis area to Stamford, Conn over the coming weeks. Charter will transfer the majority of its executive officers, along with members of their staffs, to the new 70,000 square-foot office space at 400 Atlantic Street.

Edgewater, Metaswitch combo on enterprise VoIP

October 1, 2012 3:34 pm | by Brian Santo | Products | Comments

Edgewater Networks and Metaswitch Networks are working together to provide a system that service providers can use to enable VoIP services in the enterprise market. The solution integrates Edgewater’s Voice-over-IP (VoIP) monitoring and installation solution, EdgeView, with Metaswitch’s SIP-based MetaView system.

IPTV: Coming soon to a town near you

September 30, 2012 12:18 am | by Brian Santo | Articles | Comments

With IP-based video technology maturing, there is a growing number of smaller companies able to provide subscribers in their typically exurban-to-rural areas with services and features that include larger packages of top-ranked channels (with more of those channels in HD), multi-room DVR, TV Everywhere-type services and hybrid features like Caller ID on TV.

$Billions up for grabs in SIP trunking

September 29, 2012 7:34 pm | by Doug Wadkins, chief technical officer of Edgewater Networks | Articles | Comments

Cable operators may have a golden opportunity in the business services market. Old-style PBXs in the enterprise equipment market are gradually being updated to IP PBXs. On the one hand, some new IP-based services are possible with these new systems. On the other hand, however, TDM trunking of those IP PBXs is still the predominant method of interconnection.

Memory Lane - Wake up and smell the webcam

September 29, 2012 6:20 pm | by Stewart Schley, media and technology writer | Articles | Comments

Whether the delivery agent is Coca-Cola, coffee or chocolate, a solid jolt of caffeine has fueled the creation of many a technology breakthrough. So it’s only fitting that the first known demonstration of an Internet-delivered photo stream involved the popular stimulant.

New Products - October 2012

September 29, 2012 3:36 pm | by CED Magazine | Products | Comments

Harmonic released the Spectrum MediaDeck 7000 SSD integrated media server, Incognito Software announced the latest version of its Service Activation Center, and Broadcom introduced a chip for DOCSIS 3.0 gateways that offer 1 Gbps Wi-Fi.

Cable One tabs SubscriberWise to improve customer service

September 28, 2012 3:47 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

Cable One has picked SubscriberWise’s subscriber analytics and decision management platform in order to improve customer service to its subscribers. Cable One will use SubscriberWise’s risk management and target marketing system to support its growing cable and digital technology goals and operations.

Hacking on the rise

September 28, 2012 2:07 pm | by Brian Santo | Articles | Comments

There have always been hackers, but as computer and telecom networks merge and become more extensive and interconnected, it seems that the incidence of hacking is increasing. But the point is that no organization should feel cocky about its security.

Knology Business debuts new website

September 25, 2012 2:37 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

Knology Business announced that it has launched a new website that separates the business service offerings from the residential services on the company’s main site. Knology became a wholly owned subsidiary of WideOpenWest Finance earlier this year.

100G migrations accelerating

September 20, 2012 2:25 pm | by Brian Santo | News | Comments

With video constituting an ever-larger percentage of growing worldwide data traffic, communications companies are accelerating the migration to 100 gigabit transmission on backbones and metro area networks. There have been a lot of recent announcements in the U.S.

Cablevision, Cox, Bright House, WOW tops in customer satisfaction for voice

September 20, 2012 2:07 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

It was a clean sweep for cable operators in the latest residential telephone customer satisfaction survey by J.D. Power and Associates, with Cablevision, Bright House Networks, Cox Communications and WideOpenWest (WOW) ranked as the top regional providers.

MetroPCS: LTE customers nearing 1M

September 20, 2012 2:02 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | Comments

MetroPCS CEO Roger Linquist said that the prepaid provider has nearly 1 million LTE customers, a number that places one out of every nine customers on its mobile broadband network. Linquist said it at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York.