Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) isn't pulling fiber in Kansas City, Kan., yet, but its engineers are on the ground scoping things out (counting telephone and utility poles, for instance) as it moves into the next phase of its 1Gbit/s high-speed network buildout. "The detail engineering phase will help us gather the geographical information we need to build the Google Fiber network later this year," Kevin Lo, GM of Google Access, revealed on the company's fiber blog. Google expects to launch it in "early 2012." (See Google to Plant More Kansas City Fiber, Will Google Start a 1-Gig Fiber Renaissance? and Google's 1-Gig Fiber Winner: Kansas City, KS.)
Fox Broadcasting Co. plans to take aim at cord-cutting by making new TV episodes available online exclusively to authenticated pay-TV subscribers for eight days after their premiere on linear TV.
HDNet founder Mark Cuban says he finds more value in advertising on a cable interactive programming guide than running spots in Internet video. "The digital side of cable offers more opportunity than the Internet does," Cuban told attendees at The Independent Show Tuesday in San Francisco, according to B&C.
Prairie dogs chewed through fiber optic cable Charter Communications Inc. buried in western Nebraska, sparking an Internet and phone outage.
British broadcaster ITV plc (London: ITV) says it'll launch an online micropayment system for video-on-demand programming in an attempt to reduce its reliance on ad revenue.
— Steve Donohue, Special to Light Reading Cable, and Jeff Baumgartner, Site Editor, Light Reading Cable
AT&T's chief security officer Ed Amoroso talks to Light Reading's Carol Wilson about the major challenges facing network operators in an all-IP, 4G world.
Phil Meeks, COO and EVP at Time Warner Cable Business Services, explains how his company aims to attract new business by developing backhaul services for mobile small cells.
Franz Seiser, Vice President of Core Networks & Services for Deutsche Television, discusses how Huawei helped his company experiment with network functions virtualization (NFV).
Francesc Sabate is the Director of Masters in Automated Production and Robotics at Fundacio CIM Barcelona Tech. To him, a smart city means being able to access information anywhere.
Nicolas Alvaro, Program Coordinator for the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, explains how ICT solutions can help cities increase sustainability, energy efficiency, and include more citizens in decision-making.
Robert Kogut, Southern Europe Regional Director for Nomad LTD, has worked with Huawei on several projects. He says that Huawei will continue to succeed as it enters markets in developing countries.
Agadil Khamzin is Account Manager, Urban Industry Solutions, for Thales Kazakhstan. He discusses a few smart technologies that are already helping cities improve the lives of citizens.
Franz Seiser, Vice President of Core Networks & Services for Deutsche Television, discusses how Huawei helped his company experiment with network functions virtualization (NFV).
Francesc Sabate is the Director of Masters in Automated Production and Robotics at Fundacio CIM Barcelona Tech. To him, a smart city means being able to access information anywhere.
Nicolas Alvaro, Program Coordinator for the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, explains how ICT solutions can help cities increase sustainability, energy efficiency, and include more citizens in decision-making.
Robert Kogut, Southern Europe Regional Director for Nomad LTD, has worked with Huawei on several projects. He says that Huawei will continue to succeed as it enters markets in developing countries.
Agadil Khamzin is Account Manager, Urban Industry Solutions, for Thales Kazakhstan. He discusses a few smart technologies that are already helping cities improve the lives of citizens.
RAD's CEO, Dror Bin, discusses how RAD's Service Assured Access solutions are designed to increase revenues and decrease operational costs for service providers by normalizing four key dimensions of their service offerings.
Cisco's Senior Marketing Manager, Sultan Dawood, joins Heavy Reading's Caroline Chappell at Ethernet & SDN Expo 2013 in New York City. Dawood discusses Cisco's strategy for SDN and NFV, as well as some of Cisco's recent announcements about the evolved programmable network.
Kim Heung-Ju is president of Futuregen in Seoul, South Korea, a ten-year-old company that sells technical support in server storage. He has collaborated with Huawei since June 2013 with very positive results.
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