Another round in the bout between Reed Hastings and Comcast Corp. over the MSO's streaming video policies kicks off today's cable news roundup.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is monitoring Comcast's streaming video policies on the Xbox 360 amid recent complaints from Netflix Inc. CEO Reed Hastings that Comcast is violating the Commission's network neutrality rules, reports The Wall Street Journal. Hastings is ticked that using the Xfinity TV app on the gaming console will not count toward a customer's monthly broadband usage cap. But FCC rules allow MSOs to give special treatment to traffic traveling via its private IP network, as Comcast says it is doing in this case. (See Netflix CEO Keeps Whining About Comcast and Comcast's Xbox App Raises Net Neutrality Concerns.)
Tablet owners do about 15 percent of their TV show viewing on the devices, making tablets the clear in-home viewing alternative to big screen TVs, reports Multichannel News, citing a study of 2,500 consumers who own tablets that was commissioned by Viacom Inc., which owns networks such as MTV and Nickelodeon. The findings come into play as MSOs continue to pipe on-demand and a limited lineup of live, linear TV feeds to tablets and other portable devices.
Level 3 Communications Inc. has more than doubled the capacity of its content delivery network (CDN) in anticipation of rising demand for bandwidth-intensive services such as streaming video. The upgrade boosts the company's CDN capacity to more than 5.6Tbit/s, up from the 2.15Tbit/s it put into place in late 2010, about the time Level 3 inked a deal with Netflix and sparked a network neutrality debate with Comcast. (See Comcast: Level 3 Balks at Trial Offer .)
OptiComm Co. Pty. Ltd. will use two Docsis 3.0-qualified cable modem termination system (CMTS) models from Casa Systems Inc. to power a wholesale hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) network it's deploying in Australia. The resulting "open access" network will provide links up to 100Mbit/s and enable partners to deliver IP video and other bandwidth-intensive services.
Synacor Inc. has cut a deal to build an authenticated TV Everywhere Web portal for MetroCast Communications, an MSO that serves parts of New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Pennsylvania.
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