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News & Views Most Popular Focus on Mobile Margins, Profits Trump Need to Pump Big Volumes at Altice USA By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/11/2019 Ahead of ramp-up, Altice USA is working on enhancements and new features for its recently launched mobile product as company keeps initial marketing and other operating costs in check, Dexter Goei says. Post a Comment Comcast Tests 2.5-Gig Gateway By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/10/2019 Technicolor has been tapped for the 'XB7,' a new, speedier DOCSIS 3.1 gateway with 802.11ax (WiFi 6), MoCA 2.0 and IoT radios that's a big leap over the current-gen XB6 D3.1 gateway. Post a Comment Cable Infrastructure Spending Slogs Through Another Tough Quarter By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/5/2019 Q3 spending on cable network tech improved but it's still well below historic levels, Dell'Oro says. Post a Comment Advertisement Intel Sizing Up Sale of Home Connectivity Unit – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/3/2019 Intel has hired a financial advisor to sell a unit that makes chips for gateways, cable modems and smart home equipment, according to Bloomberg. Post a Comment Podcast: Cable Gets the Urge to Converge By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/21/2019 Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Alan Breznick discuss the key themes from Cable Congress and Cable Next-Gen Europe in Berlin, finding there's a renewed focus on 1-Gig speeds and the fixed mobile network. Post a Comment CableLabs & Buckeye Bury the Hatchet By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/20/2019 They quietly settle a lawsuit in which CableLabs alleged that the Ohio-based operator breached its contract after it stopped paying quarterly dues to CableLabs in early 2018. 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 Advertisement 1-Gig a Hot Seller for Vodafone Germany By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/14/2019 40% of new broadband customers opt for the company's DOCSIS 3.1-powered gigabit broadband service, according to company CTO Gerhard Mack. Post a Comment Cable Europe Charts Course to Become 'GIGAEurope' in 2020 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/13/2019 Name and structure change coming to industry organization reflects the move to gigabit-class speeds over converged fixed mobile networks and the need to provide a unified voice to Europe's policymakers. Post a Comment DOCSIS 3.1 Takes Hold in Europe By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/13/2019 Cable's competitive and complementary relationship with 5G, the industry's progress with distributed access networks and its flirtation with a 10-Gig future will also be hot topics at this week's Cable Next-Gen Europe event in Berlin. Post a Comment CommScope's Virtual CCAP Creeps Toward Reality By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/7/2019 As it continues to play catch-up with Harmonic, CommScope says its virtual CCAP is in trials with cable ops and is slated for a commercial launch by the end of the year. Post a Comment Altice USA Adds a Mere 14K Mobile Lines in Q3 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/6/2019 Company expects mobile sales volumes to ramp up as it extends sales of its new mobile product beyond brick-and-mortar stores to online and digital distribution channels. Post a Comment China Tariffs Take Toll on Zoom in Q3 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/5/2019 But cable modem and router supplier sees brighter days ahead as manufacturing shifts to Vietnam and as Zoom prepares to refresh its product lineup in 2020 and open up direct sales channels with MSOs. Post a Comment WOW's Network 'Edge-Outs' Spur Sub Growth in Q3 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/4/2019 Led by broadband adds, WideOpenWest sees best sub growth in six quarters. Competitive cabler also getting some operational benefits from its whole-home WiFi offering with eero. Post a Comment For Casa Systems, the Hits Keep Coming By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/1/2019 Stock plunges 34% after lackluster Q3 lowlighted by Casa's struggling cable business as MSOs slash or delay spending. Plus, an analyst covering Casa is agitated by management's 'reduced communication.' Post a Comment Harmonic's 'Cable OS' Deployment Nears the 1M Modem Mark By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/29/2019 Aided by its Comcast deal, Harmonic sees a 20% surge in the number of devices being served by its virtualized converged cable access platform. Post a Comment Charter in Talks to Use Comcast's 'Flex' Streaming Platform By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/25/2019 Those discussions appear to stem from broader talks centered on licensing Comcast's X1 platform. Post a Comment Rogers Still Not Igniting Video Sub Growth By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/24/2019 Rogers' video subscriber losses continue to rise even as it moves ahead with its rollout of Ignite TV, a syndicated version of Comcast's cloud-based X1 video platform. Post a Comment Fiber Will Trump HFC & 5G From Here to Kingdom Come, EFF Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/18/2019 Declaring that local US governments are in 'dire need of universal fiber plans,' the Electronic Frontier Foundation props up FTTP as the 'superior choice for the 21st century.' Post a Comment Comcast Blames Software Glitch for Broadband Data Meter Error By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 In a small edge case that affected about 2,000 customers, Comcast says it fixed the technical issue and is crediting affected accounts for any erroneous charges and giving those subs an additional $50 credit. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Zoom Gets CableLabs Stamp for D3.1 Modem with 2.5-Gig LAN Port Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Sparklight Business Rolls 1-Gig Across Footprint Thursday, December 5, 2019 Broadband Access Revenues Dip 12% in Q3 but Cable Infrastructure Spending Improves – Dell'Oro Wednesday, December 4, 2019 Mediacom Surpasses 50,000 1-Gig Subscribers Monday, November 18, 2019 Cable Europe Rebranding as 'GIGAEurope' Wednesday, November 13, 2019 CommScope Posts Q3 Revenues of $2.38B, Net Loss of $156M Thursday, November 7, 2019 Zoom Sales Rise 20.8% in Q3 Thanks to Electronic Retail and Best Buy Boost Monday, November 4, 2019 Denmark's DSA Rolls Harmonic's 'CableOS' Platform for Gig Services Friday, November 1, 2019 Casa Systems Revenues Reach $81.8M in Q3 Amid Light Cable Product Sales Thursday, October 31, 2019 Telenet Taps Vector for DOCSIS 3.1 Upgrade Friday, October 11, 2019 Altice Labs Embraces RDK Broadband Gateways Thursday, October 10, 2019 Casa Systems Goes Multi-Access at Cable-Tec Expo Thursday, October 3, 2019 VeEX Debuts DOCSIS 3.1 Test Module Monday, September 30, 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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New 5G Network Security Threats Sigma Systems at Digital Transformation World 2019 Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected LotusFlare: Awesome Digital Experiences to Drive Growth Source Photonics CEO: Vertical Integration & Lean Models ... MobiledgeX: Who Benefits From Edge Computing? Why Is 5G Different? VMware Service Assurance: Reducing Operational ... Architect Digital-Ready Infrastructures Using SDN & NFV Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network ... Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... Semtech: LoRa Technology Enabling Proven, Flexible IoT ... Versa's CEO, Kelly Ahuja: Securing & Software-Defining ... How Lumina Is Redefining SDN Aryaka's Gary Sevounts: Advantages to Consuming SD-WAN ... Calix's Shane Eleniak: How Data Analytics & Software ... MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... Masergy's NFV Journey Mavenir on RCS Cloud Platform & Multi-ID Keep Connected IoT Devices Under Control With Allot Metaswitch: Defining the Cloud Native Core Accelerating IP/Optical Network Visibility & Control Making 5G NR a Reality With Qualcomm Act on Your Intelligence With Amdocs aia! Making 5G New Radio (NR) a Reality Accelerating C-V2X Toward 5G for Autonomous Driving Dan Sahar of Qwilt on Open Edge Cloud Platform Nominum's Craig Sprosts on DNS & Cybersecurity Trends Versa: A Lot More Than SD-WAN SmartNICs & the Future of Network Virtualization Introducing the Next-Generation ONT (Optical Network ... A10 Networks on Service Providers' Industry Needs Check Point on Cybersecurity Accelerating Telecom Digital Transformation With Nominum DNS VeEX Test & Measurement Solutions Versa Networks' Kumar Mehta on SD-WAN Managed Services The Era of Agile Optics Has Arrived Atrinet's NetACE – Migration to NFV & SDN With ... Vodafone Live NFV Use Cases Powered by Amdocs Sonus in VellOS Mellanox Open Composable Networks Network Security Orchestration Sonus in the Cloud Sonus Strategy Netronome's Server-based Networking Platform Nexius: The Strategy & Science of Data Analytics Overture Networks NFV Solutions ECI's Elastic Network Masergy: Transforming Enterprise IT Arbor Networks on ISP Traffic Visibility ECI's LightSec: Comprehensive Cyber Security Solution ECI’s LightApps: Intelligence for Networks Service Gateway Virtual Edition SDN Management & Orchestration in the WAN Sedona Systems: Multi-Layer Applications Platform NFV – a Catalyst for Business Services Growth Telefónica: In Search of Virtual Simplicity Affirmed Networks Highlights NFV in Mobile Core Close-up on ConfD NetNumber Founder on Managing Signaling Control Tail-f, Cisco & What the Future Holds Sonus Shakes Up SD-WAN Automate, Scale & Create With Juniper's vCPE Solution Metaswitch's New CEO Martin Lund Discusses His Role ActiveVideo's Cloud Virtualization Technology Nominum on Leveraging the Power of DNS to Deliver ... Palo Alto Networks on Expanding in the Carrier/Service ... Infoblox on DNS Threat Index The Netformx Ecosystem Versa Networks on Leveraging VNFs Nuage Networks on Operationalizing SDN Mellanox's New 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet Products Arista's CloudVision VIEW FULL VIDEO SHOWCASE Prime Reading G.fast Could Use a Boost Iain Morris , International Editor , 10/13/2016 Technological progress will vastly improve the capability of G.fast technology ... (3 comments) Don't Put a Cap on Capex Just Yet Mari Silbey , Senior Editor, Cable/Video , 9/15/2016 Vendor forecasts suggest capex spending in the telecom sector is still headed up, ... (4 comments) Leading Lights 2015: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 5/7/2015 Light Reading is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights ... (0) Betting on Smart Homes Mari Silbey , Senior Editor, Cable/Video , 8/27/2013 Cable operators seek gold in home automation and security services but face both ... 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