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Articles published in February 2010

Photos: Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies 2010


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 26, 2010 : Here are some quick pics from our latest cable-centric event in Denver. And, yes, the snow did come... eventually

Comcast: Upstream Bonding Tests Yield 'Sustained' 75 Mbit/s


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 26, 2010 : MSO exec says lab and field trials of upstream channel bonding are hitting the 75-Mbit/s mark, while some lab trials are holding bursts of 100 Mbit/s

Cablevision Takes On Internet Video


The Philter - Phil Harvey - Comments (2)
February 26, 2010 : 10:55 AM Jeff Baumgartner and I fight through a bad Skype call to discuss a new service idea from Cablevision that consumers may really like

Multicore Processors Target LTE


LR Mobile News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
February 26, 2010 : With its demands for high-end processing and low-level power consumption, LTE could be the proving ground for multicore devices

BT Helps Videoconferencers Connect


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
February 25, 2010 : New managed service uses internally developed software to knit together videoconferencing from Cisco, Polycom, and Tandberg

Comcast Proposes Its God Box


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
February 25, 2010 : MSO is close to releasing the hardware specs on the Converged Multiservice Access Platform, a super-dense box that combines CMTS and QAM functions UPDATED 2/26 5:40 PM

MWC 2010 Photos: NEC Booth Tour


Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
February 25, 2010 : What did NEC have to show off at this year's Mobile World Congress? We invaded its booth with a photographer to find out

Cablevision Preps Network DVR, WiFi Phone


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
February 25, 2010 : Cabler says it won't buy DVRs any longer after the end of this year

Profit Crunch for Euro Giants


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 25, 2010 : Profits tumbled in 2009 at France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, while a fraud probe is holding back the publication of Telecom Italia's accounts

Wideband Growth Continues in North America


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 25, 2010 : Heavy Reading says Docsis 3.0 will pass 90M homes – more than 70.3% of the region's cable canvas – by 2012

Virgin Preps 100-Mbit/s Broadband Launch


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 25, 2010 : UK's cable player will debut 100-Mbit/s services by the end of 2010, and expand its 200-Mbit/s tech test into a second market

Netflix Cheers Cablevision’s PC-to-TV Play


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Comments (3)
February 24, 2010 : Netflix says what's good for MSO's digital TV and Internet subs could be great for its own 'Watch Instantly' video streaming service

Genband CEO Sees Opportunity in a Complex Deal


LR Mobile News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
February 24, 2010 : Genband's Charlie Vogt says the cost was too great for other bidders, and his firm is best positioned to profit from Nortel's CVAS

Handicapping Clearwire


The Philter - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
February 24, 2010 : 3:05 PM Does Clearwire have the stuff to compete with AT&T or Verizon? Sidecut Reports analyst Paul Kapustka says they may have a different idea

MWC 2010 Photos: Nokia Siemens Booth Tour


Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
February 24, 2010 : We gave Nokia Siemens Networks 10 minutes to give us the lowdown on its stand at Mobile World Congress

FTTH Europe: Reality Sinks In


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 24, 2010 : Despite the bluffing of the lobbyists and politicians, everyone knows that FTTH progress is slow in Europe, but there's tempered optimism

Clearwire's 'Jazzed' About Results


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comment (1)
February 24, 2010 : Clearwire reported its biggest subscriber increase ever in Q4 2009

FTTH Europe: Now That's What I Call Broadband


LR Cable News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (4)
February 24, 2010 : I've seen, and used, and tasted the future – it's 1-Gbit/s broadband, and it's flavorsome!

Genband Wins Nortel's Carrier VoIP Biz


News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Comments (21)
February 24, 2010 : The 'stalking horse' process concludes as Nortel's VoIP crown jewels go to Plano, Texas, media gateway vendor

New Zealand's 3G Network Nightmare


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comments (2)
February 24, 2010 : AlcaLu is in the hot seat as Telecom New Zealand CEO Paul Reynolds puts the 3G network supplier on notice over major network outages

Juniper's Ready for Stratus


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
February 24, 2010 : Sometime this quarter, Juniper plans to hit the 'on' switch on the first of its data-center fabric products

Cablevision to Deliver Net Content to Set-Tops


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2)
February 24, 2010 : MSO testing a system that will allow Internet video to be relayed from the PC, processed in the network, then played on TV

AlcaLu Keeps Up Router Ambitions


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (29)
February 23, 2010 : The company's router sales defied the recession in 2009, which has it thinking even more strongly about expanding its market reach

Arris Beats Cisco in CMTS for '09


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : Infonetics says a hearty sales surge in Q4 allowed Arris to keep its newly gotten edge over perennial market leader Cisco

Knology Weighs Its Bandwidth Options


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : Knology's new CTO makes more room for HDTV

ZTE Snares Euro SDR Deal


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : ZTE reveals Portugal's Optimus as its first European software-defined radio customer

400G or Terabit?


The Philter - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : 11:20 AM Craig Matsumoto says there is a debate brewing on what will be the next big bandwidth jump in the Internet's core

Cable Execs Defend Advanced Ad Efforts


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : Major media buyer complains that another five years will pass before national advertisers can target individual households

FTTH Fever Hits Europe


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : EMEA's fiber access community is descending on Lisbon, but will the anticipated optimism be tempered by market reality?

India Watch: 3G Wait Over?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : The auction of 3G spectrum could be nearly with us, 4G is under scrutiny, and mobile number portability edges further away, plus more

Rumor: Cisco Wanted VUDU


Rumors - Craig Matsumoto - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : The video site apparently had something worth attracting multiple bidders

MSO Taking the MPEG-4 Plunge


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : Zito Media, an MSO run by former Adelphia exec James Rigas, hopes to get the most bang out of its limited bandwidth as it upgrades to digital

Developer Apathy Could Curb Telco App Stores


News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 23, 2010 : A new Heavy Reading report finds that carriers with app store ambitions face potential apathy from the developer community

Kabel Deutschland to Float an IPO?


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1)
February 22, 2010 : Germany's largest MSO may go for a partial stock offering after rejecting buy-out bids in the range of $6.8 billion to $7.5 billion

What if Capacity Isn't AT&T's iPhone Problem?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (7)
February 22, 2010 : Beefing up backhaul is fine and good, but there's a chance that AT&T's problems with the iPhone have little to do with capacity

MWC 2010 Photos: AlcaLu Booth Tour


Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
February 22, 2010 : Armed with a photographer, we jumped aboard Alcatel-Lucent's Mobile World Congress ship and checked out the booty

Orange, T-Mobile Go Slow on Femtos


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Post a comment
February 22, 2010 : European operators Orange and T-Mobile opt for WiFi over femtocells for consumer mobile data coverage and offload

Moloney Saying Good-Bye to Moto


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 22, 2010 : Dan Moloney's set to take the helm of Technitrol, marking the first big exec casualty to come from Moto's decision to split into two UPDATED 1:45 PM

Interview: Rajiv Bawa, EVP Corporate Affairs, Uninor


News Analysis - Gagandeep Kaur - Post a comment
February 22, 2010 : Light Reading talks with Rajiv Bawa, a senior executive at ambitious startup Indian mobile operator Uninor

TidalTV Targets Ads for Set-Tops, TV Everywhere


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
February 19, 2010 : After getting a fresh splash of cash from Comcast's VC arm, TidalTV looks to bring ad targeting to set-tops and broadband video services

MWC 2010 Photos: Shooting the CEOs


Slide Shows - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
February 19, 2010 : We tracked down the CEOs of Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks as part of our pictorial coverage in Barcelona

Policy Watch: Drafting a Broadband Plan


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 19, 2010 : The FCC buffs up some rough edges, Seattle bats eyes at Google, and cable gets a small taste of broadband stimulus funds

100G Watch: Components Wanted


News Analysis - Craig Matsumoto - Comments (2)
February 19, 2010 : Vendors aren't waiting for someone else's coherent receiver; TPack plans a 100-Gig chip

MWC 2010: More Scenes From the Show


LR Mobile News Analysis - Phil Harvey - Post a comment
February 19, 2010 : Microsoft who? We think the sheer number of Android smartphones at this show is a clear indicator of where the market's heading

Rumor: India's Airtel Preps 40G Deal


Rumors - Gagandeep Kaur - Post a comment
February 19, 2010 :

Telekom Austria Weighs WiFi Offload


LR Mobile News Analysis - Comments (4)
February 18, 2010 : Carrier CEO says WiFi offload is one option it is considering to help it cope with the growth of mobile broadband connections

PPC Plucks Evolution Broadband


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 18, 2010 : But Evolution Digital will remain independent and continue to develop and sell DTAs, TiVo boxes, and headend systems to Tier 2 and 3 cable MSOs

TiVo: Cable Should Love It Some IP


LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment
February 18, 2010 : TiVo, still no fan of tru2way, says an upstream IP path to cable headends and metadata can remedy the ills of the retail set-top market

Sezmi Goes Retail With Best Buy


News Analysis - Carol Wilson - Post a comment
February 18, 2010 : Personalized TV service provider will distribute its system through Best Buy, beginning in LA and then going national

Synacor Sizes Up ‘TV Everywhere’


LR Cable News Analysis - Steve Donohue - Post a comment
February 18, 2010 : Synacor's crafted an authentication system that could apply to MSO video portals as well as sites operated by programmers
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