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After 20 years of providing business services, Cox Business is still seeing double-digit growth rates, driven by SMB sales and sustained by a strong local presence, says SVP Phil Meeks
Kevin O'Toole of Comcast Business Services explains how the operator is beginning to use Ethernet-over-coax to complement a Metro Ethernet platform it's using to target mid-sized business customers
Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick says cable's haul of the business services market is set to eclipse $7B in 2012, but that still represents a small piece of the overall take
Weijun Lee, VP TV and cloud computing solutions at ZTE USA, shares what North American telcos can learn from overseas IPTV operators, how ZTE helps IPTV operators embrace new technologies and ZTE's trusted delivery model for cyber-security
Adtran is working with customers to deliver new, innovative solutions for every ingress point in the network. These innovations are enabling service providers to accelerate change; quickly launching next-gen services. The only constant is change
As broadband service providers map out their cloud services strategies, there are several important decisions to be made along the way. CHR Solutions’ Marc Hayden offers his view on launching cloud services, and the opportunity cloud holds
Deluxe On Demand gives operators access to the largest studio-quality video catalog (+40,000-plus titles), pre-encoded in over 50 different formats for multiscreen delivery
At the Broadband World Forum, Broadcom's vice president and general manager for Broadband Carrier Access, Greg Fischer, talks PON chips, vectoring, next-gen Wi-Fi and his love for John Belushi's guitar-smashing antics
Jay Wilson, senior VP and general manager for Adtran's Carrier Networks Division, talks about the company's prospects in Europe following the purchase of NSN's fixed access assets, the demand for vectoring capabilities and his preference for Kevin Costner over Russell Crowe
Cisco's Kelly Ahuja talks about a small cell future that enables multiple connectivity options and explains how the tiny radios could operate in situations such as Hurricane Sandy
At 4G World, Kris Rinne, senior VP of network technologies at AT&T Labs, explains how 3G and 4G small cells fit with a Wi-Fi enhanced HetNet architecture
Calix executive Andy Lockhart talks about the access equipment vendor's expansion in Europe, updates on the introduction of vectoring capabilities and gives Butch Cassidy his movie vote
Light Reading's Joe Braue talks with Rebecca Prudhomme, VP of marketing, Amdocs, about capitalizing on new business models in 4G. M2M, OTT and new vertical services – i.e. smart home and home health monitoring – are poised to play a key role in LTE
Operators are now thinking beyond the network to the business aspects of LTE. Light Reading's Joe Braue talks with Rebecca Prudhomme, VP of marketing at Amdocs, about how operators can monetize the 4G experience
Telstra's Mike Wright and Rami Rahim of Juniper Networks discuss the Australian carrier's decision to revamp its edge network using broadband network gateway (BNG) capabilities
Rouzbeh 'Father of the Cable Modem' Yassini offers his opinion on the emerging Docsis 3.1 platform and if the project represents the final step before cable takes fiber to the home
Carrier Wi-Fi is still hot, explains Heavy Reading analyst Gabriel Brown, and as the wireless industry works on connectivity management and network selection features, expect to hear more about the Wi-Fi Alliance's Passpoint program
8:00 AM As Infonetics Research says small cell volumes won't be big enough to support the current crop of vendors, I've chosen some potential M&A candidates
Ahead of the Broadband World Forum show in Amsterdam, Heavy Reading Chief Analyst Graham Finnie talks about the potential of vectoring for DSL broadband service providers, the impact it may have on GPON and why his beer glass may be half empty in the Dutch capital
TiVo's David Sandford outlines its whole-home DVR strategy and how a new IP video transcoding device will help cable operators stream their TV lineups to any IP-connected screen
A conversation with Motorola’s Bob Scheffler, Senior Director of Next Generation Video, on how media consumption habits are changing and its impact on future cable services
AT&T is insisting on fiber for its cell towers, but for small cells, it's back to the drawing board and everything is under consideration including microwave, other radio technology and even bonded copper
Verizon's Brendan Gunn talks about the need for speed when deploying LTE backhaul and how small cells will be 'massive' for the 4G technology in the future
AT&T's Yiannis Argyropoulos says the carrier wants to deploy small cells but is looking for integrated solutions that address power, installation, security and cost issues
The industry is learning a lot about the evolved packet core (EPC) from initial LTE rollouts but there are still many challenges related to the delivery of advanced services across an all-IP network
thePlatform's CEO says pay-TV operators and programmers are scaling up their broadband-fed TV Everywhere services, but stresses that some challenges remain
Verizon thinks its smart CDN, device-specific transcoding, sticky apps and Flex View cloud offering are poised to do battle with whatever OTT players bring
Toledo Telephone COO Dale Merten explains why the company ditched its traditional cable TV service for an OTT video/broadband bundle, and how that decision has led to a much improved business model
Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick talks about the hurdles cable must cross to expand its TV Everywhere initiatives, and how multi-screen video intersects with the industry's broader IP video transformation
Time Warner Cable's James Manchester explains the challenges of taking video beyond the TV and to an array of connected devices, and how partners such as Alcatel-Lucent boost the quality and security of TWC’s TV Everywhere lineup
Regularly first to market, Hitron Technologies has delivered and demonstrated the industry’s first DOCSIS 24x8 CPE. The Puma6-MG based modem provides speeds up to 960Mbps downstream by 320Mbps upstream
Kelly Ahuja, SVP/GM Mobile Internet Technology Group at Cisco, discusses how both licensed and unlicensed small cell solutions are used to address capacity and coverage needs in carrier networks
At the Huawei Global Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China, Hu Yuelin, Vice President of Fixed Access Product Line at Huawei Technologies, shares Huawei's new 'FTTH' interpretation and highlights the role of Huawei's SingleFAN in ultra broadband networks
Heavy Reading’s Berge Ayvazian on how small cells can get smart about connections and help carriers improve data speed and coverage in traffic-heavy networks
Cox Communications EVP & CTO Kevin Hart explains what's at the top of his to-do list and offers an update on the company's TV Everywhere and IP video strategies
Comcast's Catherine Avgiris walks us through Voice2Go, which enhances Comcast's residential phone service with free Wi-Fi phone calls, advanced call forwarding and the ability to create personal phone numbers
Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, explains how the media publishing firm is backing Comcast's X1 platform and what cable needs to do to get TV Everywhere to the next level
9:25 AM A big crowd gathered at the Comcast booth to check out X1, Comcast's next-gen video service, and the debut of 'Project Dayview,' a cross-platform user interface in the making
itaas President and CEO Vibha Rustagi explains how Comcast's Reference Development Kit (RDK) could get cable closer to a new standard for next-gen set-top boxes
Given the disruptive potential of software-defined networking, what's going to happen to routers as we know them? Stuart Elby of Verizon gives us his theory
Eircom Senior Product Manager John Bermingham explains how the operator's recently relaunched Wi-Fi service will complement its fixed and mobile broadband offerings
Björn Smedman, CEO of Anyfi Networks, explains how his company's Wi-Fi virtualization software works and talks about his company's relationships with operators and Wi-Fi gateway vendors
The president and CTO of AT&T Labs discusses the network in the next decade and the growing importance of the cloud and mobile security. The former COO of Alcatel USA and CEO of Tellabs says AT&T should bring the cloud closer to its end consumers
FON chief operating officer Alex Puregger talks about the shared Wi-Fi network operator's progress, proposition, partnerships and business model and how the smartphone revolution gave it a lease of life and acceptance in the carrier community
Chris Bruce, head of business development at BT Wi-Fi and chair of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), talks about how BT is providing Wi-Fi services to its retail and wholesale customers and how WBA members are trialing integrated mobile/Wi-Fi services
Wireless operators may start out trying to ignore mobile video, but soon they'll have to track it and optimize it with the hope of one day monetizing it
Docsis specification co-author and Cisco Fellow John Chapman shares his perspective on the 15-year history of Docsis and what’s in store for the future, including going beyond Docsis to CCAP
At this year’s OFC in L.A., Dr. Frank Effenberger, Huawei Technologies’ Fellow for Access R&D and a major contributor to the FSAN, IEEE and ITU standards groups, shares the progress of the NG-PON2 standard and Huawei’s 40G-PON roadmap
Comcast's Jorge Salinger says the MSO has conducted an operational-readiness trial for the Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) and has issued an RFP in advance of a small-scale deployment later this year
3:40 PM Those in line at Chicago's Apple store had many reasons to opt for or against LTE, including the data caps, hot-spot functionality, traveling needs and overall cost
Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock explains how 100G improves latency, when the costs might be right to see 100G in the metro and why Verizon supports flexible grid technology
Dr. Long, Principal Scientist of Huawei advanced access technologies, introduces details of Huawei Giga DSL prototype, which is the industry’s first G.FAST prototype, and talks about perspectives on copper technology development and application
LIME, the Caribbean operation of Cable & Wireless Communications, has implemented a caching strategy to deal with its data traffic deluge, says COO David Crawford, who also talks about customer care and cloud services
Ahead of the IPTV World Forum show in London, Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Adi Kishore explains why telcos are starting to build their own content delivery network (CDN) capabilities
Google's Milo Medin says there is no rural vs. urban debate when it comes to building a fiber-to-the-home network. It's just that some cities make the cost of building too high
Google's Milo Medin discusses why he finds monopolies distasteful and why infrastructure competition is needed, even though it seems inefficient to overbuild other networks
Google's Milo Medin reminds us that cutting network costs makes sense because the average revenue per user that any one service provider can extract from its customers is limited
With the Ericsson acquisition news still hot off the press, Greg Williams of BelAir Networks talks about the GigXone System for service provider Wi-Fi and multi-access, multimode small cells, and what they mean for mobile operators
Dan Blumenthal of the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center describes some key research areas and explains the idea of splitting up a modulation space. From the OSA Executive Forum at OFC/NFOEC
Orange Director of Technical Strategy Yves Bellego discusses the proper placement of small cells (in location and importance) as the operator builds out its LTE networks
Huawei's Tony Hu discusses 100GE market trends and his company’s rollout of a 200GE line router card designed to address carrier demand for affordable, feature-rich 100GE technology
Operators face a number of challenges as they build out their IP networks. Heavy Reading senior analyst Stan Hubbard identifies some of those key issues, including convergence, interoperability and network visibility
With connected TVs coming to the market in various flavors, will that finally be the end of the set-top box? Not exactly, says EchoStar's Michael Hawkey
