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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 Jack Burton: Cable's 5G Network Opportunity By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 10/15/2018 Broadband Success Partners Principal Jack Burton says 5G represents a great opportunity for cable MSOs to work with 5G network operators and provide not only backhaul, but facilities -- real estate on poles, towers in headends and central offices. Cable's proximity to the customer could provide them a revenue source tied to 5G and edge computing, as well as a long-term hedge against obsolescence. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 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) 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 Cable Shifts Up a Gear on Cloud, Virtualization By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/10/2018 CableLabs is developing a cloud, edge and virtualization framework that MSOs can use to provide a consistent message to the vendor community. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Why Cable Keeps Feasting on Fiber By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/10/2018 In a new report published in partnership with SCTE/ISBE, Light Reading spells out what cable operators are doing with fiber now and what they plan to do with it in the future. Post a Comment \| Read (0) How Cablecos Can Turn From Victims to Victors By Jack S. Burton, Principal, Broadband Success Partners, 10/8/2018 In this last of a three-blog series, we will explore the potential for cable operators and other broadband providers to work with their OTT and access rivals. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Clifton K Morris If memory serves me correct, WallStreet and analysists were talking about Comcast... 5G: Friend or Foe for European Cable? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/8/2018 That's one of the looming technology and business challenges that Light Reading will tackle on November 6 at our inaugural Cable Next-Gen Europe conference in London. Post a Comment \| Read (0) How Cable Has Fueled OTT By Jack S. Burton, Principal, Broadband Success Partners, 10/3/2018 In the second part of this three-part series, Burton explores the rise of OTT, as well as its impact on cable operators and other broadband service providers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Vodafone Revs Up DOCSIS 3.1 in Germany By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/1/2018 Major European provider becomes second MSO to launch gigabit-enabling D3.1 service in Germany, following the launch by Liberty Global's Unitymedia unit in May. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: larshansen Stofa has just begun, TDC is almost done. Both are going with the 204 MHz r... Eurobites: BT Transfers 31K Workers to Openreach By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 10/1/2018 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Huawei helps Monaco go 'nationwide' with 5G; Vodafone brings gigabit broadband to Bavaria; Deutsche Telekom beefs up LTE coverage in Hesse. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 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) Comcast Business Positions Itself 'Beyond Fast' By Matt Davis, Founder and Principal Analyst, Independence Research LLC, 9/26/2018 At analyst event in Philadelphia, Comcast's business unit launches new branding strategy to promote SD-WAN and other services that go beyond high data speeds. 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) Charter Chief Shrugs Off 5G Threat By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 9/14/2018 Speaking at a Goldman Sachs media conference, Charter CEO Tom Rutledge says 5G fixed-wireless networks won't be able to match cable's planned 10-Gig symmetrical speeds or economics. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Altice USA Lights Up FTTH Service in Long Island By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/10/2018 Operator's uncapped, symmetrical residential Internet service launches in 'select' parts of Long Island, boosting competition with Verizon Fios. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: M&A Rumor Links ADVA With ECI By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 8/24/2018 Also in today's regional roundup: Gigabit broadband battle in Poland; Russians mull non-domestic Internet company tax; Dutch payment venfor on the tear; IBM's coffee drone. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: Dilgin22 Right sir, the figure of 2.1 B is mind freaking. The main reason for illness... 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. Clifton K Morris, 10/9/2018 1:44:20 AM How Cablecos Can Turn From Victims to Victors Re: I shared this on Wireless Week First... If memory serves me correct, WallStreet and analysists were talking about Comcast making a tender offer to buy Verizon about three years ago. Instead of buying Verizon, SpectrumCo (the company originally formed for... larshansen, 10/1/2018 4:50:41 PM Vodafone Revs Up DOCSIS 3.1 in Germany Re: 204 MHz return Stofa has just begun, TDC is almost done. Both are going with the 204 MHz return. 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.... Dilgin22, 8/29/2018 9:36:02 AM Eurobites: M&A Rumor Links ADVA With ECI Re: Re: Crictime Drone delivered coffee Right sir, the figure of 2.1 B is mind freaking. The main reason for illness in such people would be the lack of drinking water. MasterLobster, 8/29/2018 4:18:34 AM Eurobites: M&A Rumor Links ADVA With ECI Re: Re: Drone delivered coffee Well, one thing does not rule out the other. We cannot let poverty stop innovation. 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