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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
Comcast's Karen Schmidt explains how the company is targeting mid-sized businesses with Metro Ethernet and aiming even higher when the opportunity arises
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
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
Broadband Forum CEO Robin Mersh talks about the recent G.vector plugfest, the potential gains from vectoring for DSL operators and his 'odd' connection with Jane Fonda
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
Heavy Reading analysts Graham Finnie and Gabriel Brown discuss the apparent unwillingness of European operators to match their peers in Asia/Pacific and North America when it comes to major investments in fixed-line broadband
At the Broadband World Forum, Telekom Austria CEO Hannes Ametsreiter discusses the European operator's multi-technology broadband strategy, the use of vectoring capabilities, startup investments, working with Carlos Slim and Scorsese's Taxi Driver
11:00 AM Metaswitch CEO John Lazar and CTO Martin Taylor talk about the company's place in an evolving network and its future as a software-focused business
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
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
Derrick Frost outlines the value proposition that Alcatel-Lucent brings to pay TV providers wanting to take video beyond the TV, touches on where the company is seeing traction in different markets around the world and what the future holds
Seeking to deliver IP video services, cable operators are deploying cable multimedia gateways that convert QAM signals to IP signals in the home. In this video, cable operators and experts explain the benefits and challenges of using gateways
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
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
Less than one-fourth of cell towers in the US have fiber connections today, says Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. Without fiber, 4G networks will be bandwidth starved
CableLabs' Chris Donley explains how a new block of IPv4 addresses is being made available to service providers to help them ease the transition to IPv6
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
TW Cable's Lee Howard explains the company's long road to debugging IPv6 and its decision to choose native dual-stack technology to manage the transition from IPv4
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
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
Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2012, Heavy Reading senior analyst Gabriel Brown talks about small cells, Wi-Fi in mobile networks and voice over LTE (VoLTE)
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
8:00 AM Ahead of the annual FTTH Council Europe event in Munich, we ask Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie about next-gen PON developments and the development of FTTH services in Europe
11:00 AM Phil checks out Verizon's FiOS TV service on the Microsoft Xbox 360. But why put a subset of its TV service on a gaming console? Verizon's Joe Ambeault explains
MoveTV by Move Networks is a game-changer that transcends traditional IPTV. The solution features linear TV, cloud-based DVR, VOD, and a new-concept UI, with amazing HD quality powered by Move's adaptive streaming technology
Watch as Light Reading, Cisco and Cox discuss the benefits of this exciting new in-home technology connecting managed and CE device content experiences
AT&T's Jon Summers talks about why the carrier is exposing network APIs, why it is focusing on HTML5 and how developers can write apps once and deploy them across multiple devices
Execs with Cox and Charter explain why tucking software and processing complexity further into the cloud is accelerating cable’s ability to change and enhance video services and applications
Actelis Networks, the broadband acceleration company, is helping US carriers accelerate universal broadband deployments in residential and enterprise markets with latest technology innovations, the Broadband Accelerator and DRB Technology
Sanjay Jha and Dan Moloney discuss the cable industry opportunity for tablet and consumer devices, giving a nod to Televation and advanced content delivery services in the home
