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News & Views Most Popular AirTies Hikes Hardware-Agnostic Path as Whole-Home WiFi Takes Off By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/18/2018 Hooks WiFi mesh software into cable-backed RDK-B open source software stack for gateways and extenders, claims tier-1 operator has given the greenlight. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Zoom Taps Former Cisco/SA Exec to Target Service Providers By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/17/2018 Incoming president & CEO Joseph Wytanis vows that Zoom, equipped with the Motorola brand, will avoid being a 'me-too' player as it chases after a market segment dominated by Arris and Technicolor. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Arris: We're Tackling the Tariffs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/17/2018 Cable modem and broadband networking company has struck deals with customers to absorb most of the current tariffs costs along with plans to shift more production and its supply chain for devices outside of China by the first half of 2019. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: emily.n In the short term, Arris conceded that it has been forced to implement price... Advertisement Why Vodafone Is Betting on Cloud Video By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/15/2018 Major European provider will lay out the strategy behind its new Vodafone TV streaming service at Light Reading's Cable Next-Gen Europe event in London next month. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Arris Downgraded on Cable Modem Tariff Worries By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/15/2018 Analyst expects that Arris will absorb 'at least a portion' of new US tariffs as operators intend to hold vendor to modem price agreements struck prior to tariff introduction. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Where's Cable Going With Cloud? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/12/2018 In a special, free SCTE\|ISBE Cable-Tec Expo breakfast roundtable session on Tuesday, October 23, we'll look at where cable stands in its cloud journey. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2018 With latest batch of rollouts, MSO says DOCSIS 3.1 has been deployed to more than 95% of footprint. Post a Comment \| Read (8 comments) Latest Comment: briansoloducha >I find it extremly hard to believe that anyone in the Cable industry has... Advertisement Comcast Eyes 'Scale Deployments' of Remote PHY in 2018 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/27/2018 Pivot to remote PHY and distributed access architectures is paving the way to Full Duplex DOCSIS, engineering exec says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Future State for MSOs: Ready or Not? By Jack S. Burton, Principal, Broadband Success Partners, 9/25/2018 OTT has changed everything and now 5G is on the way. How can cable operators stay ahead? Post a Comment \| Read (0) What's Next for European Cable? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 9/18/2018 Light Reading will tackle the big technology and business changes buffeting the European cable industry at our inaugural Cable Next-Gen Europe conference in London on Nov. 6. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Intel Issues Firmware Fix for Cable Modem Chips By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/15/2018 Security issue exposed modems and gateways to denial-of-service attacks. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner We'll see how smoothly this process goes, but coincidentally (?), Midco just... FCC Gives DoJ a Boost in Appeal Against AT&T-Time Warner Merger By Dan Jones, Mobile Editor, 8/14/2018 FCC says it isn't taking sides in the case, but files brief questioning whether Judge erred. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Multi-Gig Brings Star Trek Holodeck to Cable By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/9/2018 Even relatively small light field display applications require big bit-rates, CableLabs CEO says. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Arris Financials Clipped by Component Shortages By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/2/2018 Arris misses its Q2 numbers and cuts financial guidance for 2018 as a component crisis continues to put stress on its key CPE business. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Though the CPE results fell short of expectations in Q2, the fact that Arris... Harmonic Still Seeking Scale for Its Virtual CCAP By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/31/2018 Showing that the virtual CCAP era is still in the early phases, Harmonic says its new CableOS platform is delivering broadband service to about 400,000 cable modems worldwide. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner In his reax note, Raymond James's Simon Leopold called Harmonic's progress... Coherent Optics Get Close to the Edge By Wayne Hickey, Advisor, Product Marketing, Ciena, 7/17/2018 Why it makes sense for cable operators to distribute coherent packet-optical technology to the cable network edge. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: [email protected] Compared to 4G LTE, 5G is expected to offer 100x faster speeds, 100x more devices,... Remote PHY Moves Needle in Europe By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/27/2018 The most popular of the Distributed Access Architecture options that cable operators are now exploring, Remote PHY notched several advances at the recent ANGA COM show in Germany. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: RituGupta Now that the market for this item is much clearer now, it is only a smart move... Cisco Goes Cloud-Native for CCAP By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/5/2018 Cisco becomes first cable vendor to introduce software-based version of its broadband router, touching off what will likely be a fresh wave of competition. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast, Hippo Offer Home Insurance With IoT-Powered Savings By Mari Silbey, Senior Editor, Cable/Video, 5/22/2018 2010 called. It wants its business model back. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: kq4ym The trade-off of course is that to get that discount on insurance or other... Altice USA Rolls Out Uber Set-Tops By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 5/10/2018 Altice USA deploys first 100,000 home entertainment hubs in NYC metro area and plans to launch box in former Suddenlink territories throughout the spring and summer. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2018 With latest batch of rollouts, MSO says DOCSIS 3.1 has been deployed to more than 95% of footprint. Post a Comment \| Read (8 comments) Latest Comment: briansoloducha >I find it extremly hard to believe that anyone in the Cable industry has... Arris: We're Tackling the Tariffs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/17/2018 Cable modem and broadband networking company has struck deals with customers to absorb most of the current tariffs costs along with plans to shift more production and its supply chain for devices outside of China by the first half of 2019. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: emily.n In the short term, Arris conceded that it has been forced to implement price... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards emily.n, 10/18/2018 9:29:34 AM Arris: We're Tackling the Tariffs Re: Re: Analyst towncalendars sees some purchases printable calendar being deferred to 2H19 In the short term, Arris conceded that it has been forced to implement price adjustments to offset the increased tariff costs, particularly on lower-margin products. Additionally, Arris said it has "reached agreement with... Jeff Baumgartner, 10/17/2018 5:14:37 PM Arris: We're Tackling the Tariffs Re: Analyst sees some purchases being deferred to 2H19 With Arris making its new disclosures, Raymond James sent a note out today maintaining the "Outperform" rating on Arris, but moved the target to $34 from $29 on the improved outlook, though it feels "our estimates were conservative." And... briansoloducha, 10/17/2018 12:20:28 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News >I find it extremly hard to believe that anyone in the Cable industry has not heard of my use case. >Cloud based storage, services are huge and getting bigger. I'm sure people have; I just was not one of... stownplayer, 10/17/2018 6:46:09 AM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News I have not seen pricing issues with the newer services. For example, charter spectrum has the ultra tier and the "gig" tier in my area. I believe they are 89.00 and 124 per month. I have the ultra. I refuse to pay 124 per... briansoloducha, 10/16/2018 7:09:47 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News Yes, I hadn't thought of consumer cloud-storage. Are there other use cases out there? This is probably big enough by itself, but if I'm going to build a business case for this, I need as much ammo as I can get... brooks7, 10/16/2018 6:42:17 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News As one that recently lived through wildfires, ONLY store home data on clouds. The number of security engineers that Dropbox (for example) deploys is far greater than any home. And when your home burns down or... briansoloducha, 10/16/2018 3:33:03 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News It was not a smart-ass answer - I genuinely have never heard that people were considering cloud-based storage for home user environments. (And I would not have thought about that given security concerns, but these should... stownplayer, 10/16/2018 2:58:06 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News It does not really matter my use case. I want better upload. I don't really care if you if it's full duplex but these pissy 10,20,30 meg uploads are about useless. Backing up data to cloud services is a royal pain in the... briansoloducha, 10/16/2018 12:41:14 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News Hi stownplayer, What is your usecase for Full-Duplex? Are you the 1% that thinks they are good enough at video games to make a living streaming? Or are you the other 1% that creates enough content for Youtube and other... stownplayer, 10/13/2018 8:14:54 AM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Good News I don't really care if they forsee 10 gig in ten years. How about just simple full duplex? Upgrade the network and get us a decent upload. I'd be so happy with 200/200, 300/300 or something like that. RituGupta, 9/18/2018 12:30:25 AM Remote PHY Moves Needle in Europe Re: Re: Add Nokia Now that the market for this item is much clearer now, it is only a smart move by the service providers to be coming forward with what they have to offer. Previously, consumers were still skeptical about the whole scene.... Jeff Baumgartner, 8/15/2018 2:03:30 PM Intel Issues Firmware Fix for Cable Modem Chips Re: Firmware issue We'll see how smoothly this process goes, but coincidentally (?), Midco just put this out today: https://business.facebook.com/MidcontinentCommunications/posts/2062586607106878 "Attention Midco Customers: We have... Jeff Baumgartner, 8/2/2018 1:05:25 PM Arris Financials Clipped by Component Shortages Re: Could have been worse Though the CPE results fell short of expectations in Q2, the fact that Arris still hit the $1B mark was 'impressive' in its own right, Equity Research's George Notter said in a note issued this morning. He said It's impressive... Jeff Baumgartner, 7/31/2018 9:27:05 AM Harmonic Still Seeking Scale for Its Virtual CCAP Re: Another view In his reax note, Raymond James's Simon Leopold called Harmonic's progress with CableOS (deployments/trials plus the new patent) "encouraging," but allowed that cable's virtualization transformation will "take years, and... davidnguyen1, 7/23/2018 1:21:38 PM Verizon CEO Comments Feed Merger Frenzy Re: Re: Quagmire Thank for information More Message Boards		Security Now GreyEnergy Group Tied to Power Plant Attacks in Ukraine & Poland Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 10/18/2018 Research from ESET has uncovered a new group called GreyEnergy, which appears to ... (0) Your People Can't Secure Your Network? Try Tier 0 Automation Alan Zeichick, Principal Analyst, Camden Associates, 10/18/2018 Keeping up with modern security requirements requires a multi-prong approach. One ... 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