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News & Views Most Popular Making Virtual Business Services Real By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 12/11/2019 Charter Spectrum Enterprise's Satya Parimi discusses the cableco's rollout of SD-WAN and virtualized security services, the lessons learned and the challenges still ahead. Post a Comment Comcast's X1 Platform Means Business By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/10/2019 Comcast Business's Christian Nascimento details how this fast-growing unit of the company has adapted Comcast's cloud-based video platform to service the commercial market, including restaurants, hotels and other hospitality venues. Post a Comment Cable Sizes Up New Business Verticals & Vectors By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/6/2019 Light Reading's Alan Breznick and Jeff Baumgartner look at the future and past of cable business services. Post a Comment Advertisement Access to Spectrum to Determine Starry's Network Deployment Speed By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/5/2019 Starry, which provides fixed wireless broadband over millimeter wave spectrum, is exploring services for business customers to complement its core residential offerings. Post a Comment Comcast Business Testing 'GameOn' App in Philly By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/4/2019 Developed by a startup linked to the Comcast/NBCU Lift Labs incubator, an app running on a verrsion of X1 tailored for bars and restaurants enables patrons to play an interactive game based on making sports predictions. Post a Comment SMBs Still Stoking Business Services Growth for US Cable By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/3/2019 But cable ops are making progress with bigger, enterprise-sized deals and pursuing new types of commercial-class services to open up fresh revenue streams and inflict more pain on the telcos. Post a Comment How Will Cable Business Services Keep Growing? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/25/2019 With the commercial services engine clearly slowing down, where will cable operators turn for new growth as new technologies like SD-WAN and 5G emerge? Post a Comment Advertisement Should SD-WAN Providers Let Enterprises Drive? By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/22/2019 Many enterprise customers want to operate their own SD-WAN, but they risk driving into a ditch. Post a Comment Comcast's Victor: SD-WAN Faces 'Baskin-Robbins Problem' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/20/2019 Enterprise customers struggle with too many SD-WAN choices, says Robert Victor, Comcast Business SVP of product management. Post a Comment Where Cable Stands With Fiber By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/18/2019 In our latest survey conducted in partnership with SCTE-ISBE, Light Reading examines how cablecos are using fiber now and how they aim to use it in the future. Post a Comment Cable One Racks Up Record Margins Again By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/8/2019 US cableco reports industry-best profit margins again after wrapping up its $526 million acquisition of Fidelity Communications last month. Post a Comment Liberty Global Revenue Slump Deepens By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/7/2019 Europe's largest cable operator suffers continued revenue declines, largely due to steep video subscriber losses in its UK home market and Belgium. Post a Comment Comcast Business Invades Canada By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2019 Comcast's business services unit teams with iTel Networks to serve Canadian branch locations for the MSO's big, US-based enterprise-level customers. Post a Comment Charter Hopes to Hit Business Services Bullseye With Bill Archer Hire By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/8/2019 Exec late of Ireland's eir Group and AT&T named EVP and president of Spectrum Enterprise, succeeding the retiring Phil Meeks. Post a Comment Spectrum Enterprise's Gunnar Peters Looks Ahead By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/3/2019 Gunnar Peters from Spectrum Enterprise discusses how the company listens to customers and decides what services to offer next. Post a Comment Net Neutrality Is Dead Yet Again By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/1/2019 States still have the option of enacting their own net neutrality regulations following today's DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the FCC rollback of net neutrality rules. Post a Comment LR Tackles 5G & the Cloud at Cable-Tec Expo By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 9/23/2019 In an industry first, Light Reading will stage two breakfast forums on hot tech topics at next week's Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans, the first on cable network virtualization and the second on cable's role in 5G. Post a Comment Comcast's New X1 TV Navigation App Means Business By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/27/2019 Following the recent launch of X1 tailored for SMBs, Comcast Business debuts version of a TV app that enables bar and restaurant owners to control up to 16 TVs. Post a Comment Charter Unloads Navisite Unit By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/26/2019 RDX to acquire the managed cloud services company that Time Warner Cable acquired in 2011 for $230 million. Post a Comment Altice USA Nearing Sale of Lightpath Stake – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/29/2019 Potential deal with Stonepeak would involve a minority piece of fiber-fueled business services unit and value the Lightpath division at about $3 billion, Bloomberg says. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Sparklight Business Rolls 1-Gig Across Footprint Thursday, December 5, 2019 Charter Demos AI-Based System That Predicts Network Demand at MEF19 Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Expands Services in VA & Opens New Office Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Sparklight Enterprise Upgrades WiFi to Business Class Thursday, October 17, 2019 Comcast Business Reaches Into Canada Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Stealth Offers Pop-Up Fiber Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Trash Pandas Minor League Baseball Team Taps WOW for Stadium Services Thursday, September 19, 2019 RDX Completes Purchase of Charter's Navisite Unit Monday, September 9, 2019 Charter Sells Navisite to RDX Monday, August 26, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Gains Franchise in Virginia County Thursday, August 1, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Hardware Is the New Attack Surface – Forrester 12/12/2019 Attackers have already begun to breach security at the BIOS level, according to a ... 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MediaKind CTO: Adding Agility Will Shorten 'Feedback Loop' With Customers

Agile, a model based on iterative changes and small, quick releases, is table stakes for any software company. It's just how things get done these days as the older ...