Bandwidth demand is growing, but it isn't enough

A handful of other cable-related things that happened this week

CEO Paul Sagan says Akamai can endure the current financial conditions because it isn't exposed to 'newfangled' Web 2.0 sites

One analyst believes the vendor's mysterious Nov. 11 announcement is a major edge-router platform

However, the Justice Department is stipulating that the new combined company divested itself of 100 markets in 22 states

The WiMax talking points are behind the times

The company has written down the goodwill value of its CDN unit by almost $100M, in a recent SEC filing

Revenues jump as a new deployment with Bright House Networks allows BigBand to tout gains in the switched digital video category

After months of speculation about a sale, Sprint decides that it will keep Nextel's iDEN network after all

Conexant takes a ride

CBS stock recovers after Redstone's sale

But the changes Dr. Jha discussed on the Q3 conference call raised more than a few eyebrows

The pillaging continues

Kevin Kennedy's post-JDSU destination turns out to be Charles Giancarlo's current haunts

Targeting the Drosophila vote

The deal's not dead, just repriced to $2.6 billion

Rather than consolidating, approaches to synchronization of Ethernet backhaul from cell sites are proliferating

Vendor's losses narrow and revenues are in-line as the new CEO gives a timetable for strategic review

Guess which telco competitor is most 'formidable' in the eyes of Comcast?

But it will be a year before Android arrives

Moto dumps Symbian OS for Google and Microsoft mobile platforms in a bid to simplify in 2009

New co-CEO says economic conditions and unit reorg will delay mobile device spinoff

Tatara sells business unit to fund femto development

CEO Kevin Kennedy abruptly announces he's off to a new job

By the hour

But maybe it should be

No. 1 cellular operator in the US says it will start home base station trial soon

The combined companies are now Grab Networks

Responding to what it describes as disappointing Q3 margins, Qwest sets out to cut 1,200 jobs

Top MSO is still pilfering more subs than the two largest telcos

Cindy Christy's replacement has arrived, in the form of former Openwave CEO Robert Vrij

A real prat-fall

The MSO's all-digital effort is ramping up in Portland, OR where Comcast is already conducting trials of digital terminal adapters

Comcast subs in the Windy City are next in line to get the cable-TiVo combo

VOIP subscribers say their phones have gone silent

Telenor said it will shell out $1B for a majority stake in a startup GSM operator in India and its share price plunged 17%

The companies' Energy Consumption Rating aims to standardize the way gear is tested

Vendor beats Wall Street expectations but says 2009 outlook is murky

From the folks at XOHM

Time Warner Cable picks an ETV dance partner

3G CDMA maven inks another home base station deal, this time with Hitachi

It's a busy day on Contentinople

Roku looks beyond Netflix and plans other content partnerships

Telenor is outraged by Russian court's decision to stop Vimpelcom shares from trading

MSO VP of wireless Stephen Bye explains how Cox is weaving wireless into all aspects of the company's operational fabric

NCTA is urging the Commission to hold off 'white spaces' vote

Vendor holds firm on Q4 forecast, but warns the 'picture is less clear' for next year as customers reassess capex plans

Operator says that it could intro a home base station early in 2009

News Flash: Guilty Guilty Guilty!

One-day telco conference has all service providers singing from the same hymn book, but the vendor impact may take a while to figure out

The ATIS-led security platform isn't expected to derail cable's efforts, but its impact on retail TVs and set-tops remains unknown

Mobile data helped drive Q3 results, but Verizon isn't so sure about Q4

Two large US telcos get ready to merge in a $5.8B all-stock deal that will create a landline giant with operations in 33 states

Science marches on

Cox will launch cellular services next year while building out its own 3G network and testing 4G technology LTE

BitGravity delivers shuttle launches, Internap asks strangers 'where'd you get that,' and UGC dies a slow death

The shareholder meeting to seal the Brocade deal has been moved to Oct. 29, a surprise that's sent Foundry shares reeling

Even in tough times, some companies are simply impressive in the way they fail to impress

Striking while the barracuda is hot

But don't get used to it

Cable operators and vendors are pumping advanced advertising as the industry's salvation, but hard numbers have been lacking... until now

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin claims the coveted title

Vendor is prepping a new 'green' carrier Ethernet aggregation switch, according to industry sources

Chinese vendor sees its revenues grow by 29% in Q3 as it lines up multiple mobile infrastructure deals

Software-defined radio is at the core of equipment vendors' efforts to deliver multi-standard radio systems

Features and benefits of cable's budding platform get top billing at Abt Electronics

Vendor says a leading US cable MSO has signed a contract to deploy Terrace, a bulk digital-to-analog decoder for MDU settings

Does lack of standards put telco TV in peril?

Major mobile companies say the FCC's test results for nationwide wireless broadband are flawed and don't show how much nearby spectrum would be harmed

...of bad taste in movies

A solid Q3 and a non-disappointing Q4 give investors some good news in a tough month

Don't lose the headphones!

Social networking site gets sixth round of funding

Job ads suggest 'next generation' rollout plans in the City of Angels, but Clearwire isn't saying anything yet

After an interruption from Hurricane Ike, Time Warner Cable's trial of metered Internet usage is back on track

Former Cisco exec Jayshree Ullal has joined Andy Bechtolsheim's new company, Arista, to tackle cloud computing

The nation's largest Ethernet conference buzzed through New York with three days of lively sessions. Enjoy our photo recap of the event

Pan-European operator's crystal ball still shows growth

Two lawmakers weigh in on retrans negotiations ahead of the DTV transition... and they appear to be on cable's side

Vision Acquisition Corp. has extended a tender offer for the struggling 3 GHz overlay vendor to midnight tonight

Unveils a new metro WDM platform that combines tunable ROADM capabilities with the management tool set inherited from Tropic

Size matters

It was huge one for Apple's cash cow

ECI is looking to develop service-specific carrier Ethernet platforms and new OSS products

Stirring it into chips that power broadband modems, home routers, set-tops, and digital TVs

The Met intros its new Met Player for online opera fans

3G coverage can be a bit patchy

MSO is taking aim at telcos with two new Docsis 3.0 tiers in the Twin Cities, Philadelphia, and portions of New England and New Jersey

No iPhone-style feeding frenzy, but the G1 phone is a steady seller in NYC on launch day

Strong iPhone 3G sales force AT&T to lower its full-year operating income margin forecast, but the operator says the cost is worth it

Emerging markets show signs of stress

Chipping in on startups

The big night, captured on film and in photos

Google's first phone doesn't inspire Apple-like frenzy in NYC

His new startup is focusing on the next big step for service providers: the virtualization of services and management

Verizon Business hopes to get an early jump on the 10-Gig Ethernet services market

Jerry Yang runs out of options

AT&T's third-quarter profits are up thanks to strong wireless growth, but the iPhone has put a dent in wireless margins

Why didn't anyone pitch femtocells to the McCain family?

The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd. All the excitement of the 2008 Leading Lights awards brought to you through the magic of television.

Every d-d-d-dog must have its d-d-d-day

Symbian was out to impress developers today at its annual Smartphone Show in London and had all the latest devices on show

Stores open early – get there while supplies last!

No metro announcement yet

Only days after his sudden exit from Soapstone, Larry Dennison is back in the carrier Ethernet world with a new startup

Akamai ventures into targeted advertising, Blip.tv closes a funding round, and Netflix is still OK - for now

MSO confirms that as many as 300 jobs could be cut as Comcast reorganizes its Eastern Division

Fourth-quarter outlook and massive writedown hits Tellabs numbers as it restructures for leaner times, axing 280 positions

It's gotten tougher to be a crabby old lady

UPDATE: Conax now says Blankom must obtain the vendor's conditional access technology through its exclusive North American cable partner

Online storefront and on-device app center gives BlackBerry users an equivalent of Apple's App Store for the iPhone or the Android Market for the G1

While the Metro Ethernet Forum works on a network-to-network interface, it might also be trying to create an Ethernet peering point

With TelcoTV 2008 just around the corner, here's a handful of things the Verizons, AT&Ts, Qwests, and SureWests of the world should worry about

Akamai buys ad firm acerno for $95M; launches its Advertising Decision Solutions offering

Wireless won't necessarily save us all

Literally…

The annual Light Reading awards have been handed out at a gala dinner in New York – find out who won!

VC investments in Internet-specific companies decline in Q3

Industry talk puts Infinera close to metro platform launch

The carrier Ethernet equipment market is still set to nearly double by 2012, but it won't be as big as previously expected

Don't laugh; KDDI likes it

The first field trial of a downloadable conditional access system gets underway later this month

The company's first crack at Google's operating system is expected to feature strong social networking features, but it may not debut until the second quarter of 2009

And the vendor hasn't ruled out vendor financing

Phone giant doesn't have a RIM email client for its E71 flagship yet and says there's no plans for one

Adds itaas as a partner as Comcast unit ramps up to deliver EBIF-based 'enhanced TV' applications to MSOs via a centralized platform

The Vanco deal has Reliance gathering partners to boost its worldwide reach, an executive tells LR's Ethernet Expo

Exactly why 'high availability' matters

'Emergency request' from broadcasters urges more comment and evaluation before FCC votes on 'White Spaces' proposal on Nov. 4 UPDATED 6:30 PM

The addition of some services into the Junos operating system is giving the MX router line a new look

Ericsson's share price jumped more than 20 percent this morning on stronger than expected third quarter results

The good, the bad, the ugly: Here's what became of last year's award winners

EchoStar president drops a few hints about what cool, new features will grace the company's forthcoming tru2way gear

An optical-layer encryption scheme could become commercially available by the time 100-Gbit/s Ethernet goes into service

Fourth-largest US mobile operator is pulling its 3G finger out ahead of Android launch

MSO chief strategy officer says operator ready to scale broadband-fueled premium video service to 'many millions of customers'

Voice service suffers

Google's breaking the mold of economic despair

There's no let-up in India, where the mobile subs base has broken the 300 million mark and companies are investing in new facilities

Sometimes you just gotta confirm that friend request

Evolution says exclusive tie to CA vendor Conax prevents Blankom from pitching Conax-based digital systems to North American MSOs

Handset makers' numbers aren't pretty, but they're not as bad as expected

Advocates say spectrum can be used for wireless service, but broadcasters and telecoms say it could interfere with spectrum bands

Decision time for US telecom mergers

Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent discount any return of 'vendor financing' practices

Time Warner Cable and Cox get hit with three $20,000 fines over the switch to switched digital video

All segments and sizes affected

The company's first hardware appliance adds a new angle to its Ethernet services play

The company says this enables it to deliver about four Nielsen points of video

There, I've said it

Maybe this video will help

Despite some interference issues, FCC Chair favors a proposal that would allow special devices to tap into unused broadcast spectrum

Chinese startup Digimoc commits to femtocells based on Chinese 3G standard TD-SCDMA

Nokia Siemens sees its third-quarter revenues shrink year-on-year as exchange rate changes hit the vendor's top line

It's not part of a set. It's not on top

Research In Motion is unlikely to be acquired by Microsoft

Comcast subs will be the first to try out new Panasonic HDTVs that can pipe in interactive services, including VOD, sans set-tops

ThinkPanmure analyst says upcoming shareholder vote makes a Dec. 1 or Jan. 1 close likely for new Clearwire deal

Adobe releases Flash 10

TelePresence for rent

ECI puts its heritage to use and lands some early deals as it attempts to rival the carrier Ethernet switch sector's big guns

Nokia Siemens ships LTE-ready hardware

Limelight selects board member Douglas Lindroth as CFO, prompting some analysts to predict 'business as usual' for the company

MSOs with their own credit concerns are undoubtedly keeping close watch on UK cable operator's situation

First there was the Skypephone, now get ready for a Facebook phone

Optical and Ethernet vendor BTI Systems opens European HQ

Startup looks to extract dollars from MSOs with patented system that can rapidly extract old coax for repairs and upgrades

Stops 3G BlackBerry sales after software problems crop up

While Verizon is taken to task for improperly grounded FiOS installations, one union says the cable guys aren't squeaky clean

Welcome the VueKey, a removable security device that aims to comply with the FCC's ban on integrated set-top security

Pan-European operator prepares to launch a new customer trial of home base stations, Unstrung has learned

What should the Viacom founder do now?

XO is investing further in its Ethernet story, giving Ciena another reason to say 'told you so' about its World Wide Packets acquisition

Former chairman and CEO offers 17 cents per share for struggling supplier of 3 GHz overlay technology

Bad news in broadband telephony

Thanks in part to a fragile economy, the tru2way TV era probably won't get off to a furious start this holiday season

Wireless carriers' concerns of interference from a free nationwide WiFi network are overblown, according to a report from the FCC

Access vendor defied the market in the third quarter by expanding its revenues and is confident it can weather the current storm

RIM's stock price drop may be making its larger rival interested in a takeover

Analyst ups TWC to Neutral, holding that big issues, including a big battle with Verizon, are now reflected in the stock's value

Announcing Contentonomics winners

HTC's first WiMax handset spotted in Russia

By switching from TDM to newer IP solutions, network operators can be green and save green at the same time

As BT unveils details of its fiber-to-the-curb service pilots, PacketFront announces further success in Norway

UK MSO makes Canoe-like maneuvers across the pond

German firm joins crowded field of suppliers targeting small- and mid-sized operators seeking to upgrade their video platforms

Operators say goodbye to CDMA and opt for LTE for 4G

Spanish giant says it's not rocked by global storm

French paper sees AlcaLu selling its Thales holding

Norway's national carrier excludes ZTE from any new business and all tender processes worldwide for a breach of its code of conduct

Wireless broadband for a post-apocolyptic, post-DSL world

Chuba Udokwu is out, for reasons unspecified

Cable operators are finally starting to explore ways to sell advanced video services to commercial subscribers

Joins other devices bridging TV and Internet

Sprint CEO wonders if anyone will be able to raise the necessary capital to buy Nextel

Should cable fear it?

BT’s decision to revamp its 21CN rollout strategy has given the British carrier a stronger hand in the Ethernet services market

Even smaller numbers for Cisco

It's DirecTV from now on, as Qwest has to shut down the IPTV service formerly supported by Next Level gear

Qwest decides to kill ChoiceTV

British ISP highlights 21CN's lack of IPV6 support

Some of our 'Best Startup' finalists have had quite a busy year, some are hoping for a big 2009, and some just aren't sayin'

Arris has quietly expanded its service assurance portfolio, added 28 Auspice engineers, and landed more business with Comcast

Watching YouTube on your TV is finally easy – and it took a telco to make it happen!

Larry Dennison, the man who crafted the post-Avici strategy, has washed his hands of Soapstone

Sprint and friends cut the wire at Baltimore shindig to WiMax's coming out

The operator deploys a CableLabs-specified system that supports lightweight 'enhanced' TV apps

Our show in New York City comes to an end

Like that's a surprise

About 500 staff are to transfer from BT to Alcatel-Lucent in an outsourcing deal focused on the running of legacy networks

Vodafone finally makes an offer to Telkom SA to gain a majority stake in South African mobile operator Vodacom

Why take your chances on over-the-air converter boxes when you can get a screaming deal on basic cable?

The Nokia WiMax tablet could arrive on the market in the next couple of weeks

AlcaLu's new CEO grounds corporate jets

Australian operator plans to launch evolved HSPA services by the end of this year, pumping up its 3G network speeds to 21 Mbit/s

Huawei postpones the sale of a stake in its Terminals Business, blaming current economic uncertainty

BT misfit found guilty of eBay kit sales

TiVo is saved in Cherry Hill, NJ, as Comcast starts deploying devices to access switched-tier channels

ThePlatform gets a boost, TWC enhances interactivity, and we go high-tech

Private equity firms have demonstrated with the recent Freescale 'transformation' that their understanding of the semiconductor market is limited at best

It's time for telcos to take another look at policy tools and realize there is more to policy than policing

IP startup NetSocket is trying to 'make the impossible possible' and succeed where Operax failed in the IP resource management sector

Notebooks, modems, and air-cards are the early devices for Sprint's Baltimore XOHM network

Video management firm will use Plaxo's technology to give its platform better search, discovery, and social recommendation features

Speaking at the XOHM WiMax event, Sprint CEO says people would rather cut their local wireline service than cellular

Now that Comcast's got your attention...

Verizon and Vodafone are the first operators to carry the new BlackBerry Storm 3G touch-screen smartphone from RIM

Time Warner's Oceanic division gives ActiveVideo a coveted showcase market for its interactive television platform

Our incontinent economy

ECI and Nokia Siemens gain support as Light Reading's readers vote for their favorites in the Leading Lights awards shortlists

The company is shutting down a small Florida facility but doesn't seem likely to close any other sites soon

Denver-area content house puts up $5M to absorb Radiance Communications

Ethernet fever runs high at Ciena as the WWP acquisition gives the vendor ideas for a service-aware network

Despite the condition of the economy

In WiMax R&D

The MSO is off the hook regarding Verizon's VOIP patents, a decision that may bode well for other cablecos

Fixed/mobile convergence and femtocell technology company Kineto raises $15.5M and adds Motorola as a strategic investor

Ciena's CEO stays sunny

How do you solve a problem like pyorrhea?

How the global financial crisis will influence the wireless market over the coming years

Dish will pay about $104M to TiVo after the Supreme Court declines to hear the 'Time Warp' patent case

Company is looking for vendors to help it assess the market for a dedicated 40-Gbit/s metro transport service for enterprise customers

As the capex freeze continues to hit softswitch specialist Sonus, fellow VOIP gear vendor AudioCodes is bullish about its prospects

Velocix is putting caching infrastructure in ISP networks in the US and UK but claims announcements are being stymied by Net neutrality worries

Apple now holds 17% of the consumer smartphone market as nearly half of its new customers jumped to AT&T from Verizon Wireless, according to data from NPD Group

So much for the Essex group

A bigger version of the vendor's ISG box aims at being the point where the all-Ethernet network begins

Handset manufacturer saw revenues rise 30% to nearly $1.2 billion thanks to the success of its Touch line of smartphones

Sprint WiMax may be broadcasting – but not commercial yet – in places other than Baltimore

Netflix cuts Q4 forecasts, including revenue and subs

Another OSS minnow, Ceon, gets acquired, and again it's the prey's 'service catalogue' capabilities that have attracted a buyer

Demand for 100G is here, and the technology is impressive. But the business, for vendors, remains a sobering discussion

How long will the honeymoon last?

Verizon has been testing out 100 Gbit/s optical transmission again, this time with Nortel

Early voting for the Leading Lights 'Person of the Year' award puts Google's head of mobile platforms, Andy Rubin, ahead of the pack

Switch fabric vendors came and went during the bubble, but Dune is still around and even profitable

PiCast enters the peer-assisted video delivery market armed with MediaDefender's expertise

A second dose of pictures from the expanded WiMax show

Chinese zoo offers chicken soup for the panda soul

Obstacles include poor rankings in customer service polls, such as J.D. Power & Associates's

Clear winner in the Brussels coffee conflict

First they dump it, then they dump on it

The latest Cable Industry Insider says the cable industry's interactive ad venture should have its first products rolled out early next year

Nortel scores a hit with its WDM-PON offer

You can vote early on your Leading Lights favorites

Making Symbian open-source is Nokia's way of going on the attack, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says

Timothy Wahlers and Walden Miller buy pieces of Vidiom back from ADB and the cable-focused elements of Solekai Systems to spawn enableTV

People are watching online video – so where are the profits?

Sources say France Telecom is evaluating suppliers for a major, multi-country upgrade of its fixed broadband backhaul capabilities

Atish Gude talks up some of the operator's more interesting XOHM pricing schemes in his WiMax World keynote

Nokia's CEO says it could happen here

It's back to the future at the 802.16 jamboree in Chicago, as Nortel OEMs WiChorus to add WiMax handoff and roaming capabilities

Comcast is pushing on with WiMax femtocells in 2009 as part of its Clearwire plans, sources at WiMax World say

With TV, as with phone service, the freshest competitors tend to satisfy the most

Here are the finalists for the fifth annual Light Reading Leading Lights Awards

Comcast, RGB Networks, Casa Systems, and Cisco (of course) are in the finals

Signs a licensing agreement to stream movies from cable network Starz

Backhaul and WiMax vendors partner to do end-to-end WiMax networks in emerging markets

Legislature mandates obesity

In his WiMax World keynote, CEO Ben Wolff doesn't change his tune about the Sprint asset merger

But premium programmer notes that getting a cable deal for Starz Play 'is very much a priority'

AT&T's top wireless exec, Ralph de la Vega, is now the major domo over all its consumer businesses, including U-verse

CTO John Saw wants more from microwave

The global economic storm may be intensifying, but optical vendor Transmode is staying dry so far

Despite a lack of standards, cable operators are slowly starting to adopt RF Over Glass in targeted situations

Motorola shows off many, many WiMax applications in a space-age Chicago house

Sprint veep says Chicagoland WiMax is 'round the corner

Ralph de la Vega adds consumer fixed-line biz