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News & Views Most Popular CommScope Swaps Leadership of Its CPE Biz By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/15/2019 Former Scientific-Atlanta and Cisco exec Joe Chow to succeed Larry Robinson, a move that will spark more speculation about the future of the set-top and modem business that CommScope acquired from Arris. Post a Comment Vodafone's German Gigabit Plan Piles Broadband Misery Onto DT By Iain Morris, International Editor, 8/12/2019 Germany's telecom incumbent has already witnessed ten years of broadband decline at the hands of cable operators. Are things about to get worse? Post a Comment Cisco Halts Investment in Full Duplex DOCSIS By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/9/2019 Says it's suspending spending on FDX until market timing, ecosystem development and size of the market opportunity can be quantified. Post a Comment Advertisement CommScope Eliminates COO Slot as Arris Biz Struggles By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/8/2019 Departure of long-time Arris exec Bruce McClelland comes about four months after acquisition and as the unit grapples with an expected temporary decline in cable operator capital spending. Post a Comment Residential Broadband, Biz Services Drive Cable One Forward in Q2 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/7/2019 Cable One lost another 30,277 video subs in Q2, a 9.4% drop. The cable op ended the period with a pay-TV penetration rate of just 14.5% Post a Comment Shentel to Get Bigger Using Mix of Fiber, Cable & LTE Fixed Wireless By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/7/2019 Regional operator Shentel says it plans to expand Internet access in part using LTE fixed wireless technology. Post a Comment Comcast Expands Reach of 'Internet Essentials,' 15-Meg Remains Service's Sweet Spot By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/6/2019 By including people with disabilities and seniors, Comcast says 3 million more homes are eligible for Internet service, subsidized PCs and digital literacy training targeted to low-income Americans. Post a Comment Advertisement CommScope Carves Migration Path to Remote PHY By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/5/2019 CommScope says new remote PHY modules can be snapped into most of its deployed base of fiber nodes and allow for targeted rollouts in areas where cable operators need to add capacity. Post a Comment Former Dish Wireless Exec to Take R&D Helm at CableLabs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/2/2019 Mariam Sorond was most recently chief wireless architect and VP of technology development at Dish. Post a Comment Harmonic Sheds More Light on Big 'CableOS' Deal With Comcast By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/30/2019 Four-year $175 million enterprise licensing deal covers headend software, with potential to reduce those fees should Comcast opt to buy other products, including nodes and other network hardware, from Harmonic. Post a Comment Fiber, 5G or Cable? The Battle for the Enterprise Branch Office By Matt Davis, Founder and Principal Analyst, Independence Research LLC, 7/29/2019 Fresh survey results show that the distributed enterprise market is up for grabs as cable operators, traditional telcos and wireless providers vie for advantage. Post a Comment Charter Shifts Mobile Into Higher Gear By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/26/2019 No. 2 US MSO signs up 208,000 wireless customers in the second quarter as it ramps up its Spectrum Mobile sales efforts to full throttle and extends its reach to nearly every type of wireless handset. Post a Comment Comcast Broadband, Mobile Growth Engines Keep Purring By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/25/2019 No. 1 US cable and broadband provider racks up another strong quarter of steady broadband and mobile sub growth while seeing video sub losses shoot up. Post a Comment Meeting Cable's 10G Challenge Without Lots More Fiber By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/22/2019 Cable operators may not not need to go all-fiber or adopt the new Full Duplex DOCSIS spec to deliver symmetrical 10Gbit/s speeds to broadband subscribers. Post a Comment The Right Strategy for Modernizing Cable By Tom Cloonan, Tom Cloonan, CTO of Network Solutions, CommScope, 7/19/2019 Operators are challenged with finding a tech-agnostic approach and a data-driven upgrade strategy that will stand the test of time. Post a Comment D3.1 Finally (Really) Debuts Down Under By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/17/2019 Australian government-backed wholesale broadband provider concludes successful D3.1 field trial on a retail operator's HFC network in Victoria, achieving download speeds of nearly 1 Gig. Post a Comment Shaw Bets on BlueCurve for Broadband By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/15/2019 As part of its broad product syndication deal with Comcast, big Canadian MSO is counting on new home WiFi app, DOCSIS 3.1 rollout and IPTV launch to trigger fresh subscriber and revenue growth. Post a Comment Charter & NY Formally Kiss & Make Up By Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 7/12/2019 After New York's Public Service Commission rescinded approval of Charter's merger with TWC and Charter threatened to leave the state, negotiations succeeded and both orgs come out winners. Post a Comment Cogeco Scores in US, Slips in Canada By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/11/2019 Large cross-border cable operator exceeds analyst expectations with Q3 Atlantic Broadband results in US but disappoints with Cogeco Connexion results in Canada. Post a Comment The Road to DOCSIS 4.0 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/26/2019 DOCSIS has taken a few twists and turns over the past 20 years as it heads toward a next-generation of specs that support Full Duplex DOCSIS, low-latency DOCSIS and Extended Spectrum DOCSIS capabilities. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Atlantic Broadband Expands Gigabit Deployments 10 hours and 58 minutes ago Casa Demos Virtual CCAP, Low-Latency DOCSIS 3.1 Monday, August 5, 2019 Casa Q2 Revenues Drop to $52.1M Wednesday, July 31, 2019 CommScope Debuts Remote PHY Device Monday, July 29, 2019 Harmonic Revenues Drop 14% in Q2 as CableOS Deployments Rise Monday, July 29, 2019 Comcast Reports Q2 2019 Results Thursday, July 25, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Deploys Gigabit More Widely Wednesday, July 17, 2019 SCTE-ISBE, CABA to Partner on Smart Homes, Smart Cities Initiatives Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Dev Systemtechnik Touts DOCSIS 3.1 Remote PHY Interop Thursday, June 13, 2019 Broadband Access Equipment Revenues Dip in Q1: Dell'Oro Monday, June 10, 2019 Tech Papers Picked for Cable-Tec Expo Monday, June 10, 2019 Vector Expands Professional Services Friday, June 7, 2019 VeEX Brings New Test & Measurement Gear to Anga Com Tuesday, June 4, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Fintech Startups Get Sloppy With Application Security Larry Loeb, Author, 8/20/2019 Some startups need to shape up or ship out. (0) New Industry Drives Renewed Interest in Embedded Security Larry Loeb, Author, 8/20/2019 Hardware for security may just get hot. (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News FTTP or Next-Gen HFC? It's Complicated Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/21/2019 As cable operators weigh construction costs, the potential for service ... (0) ADTRAN CEO Tom Stanton Q&A: All Access All the Time Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 8/21/2019 In a one-on-one interview with Broadband World News, ADTRAN Chairman and CEO Tom ... (1 Comment) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase 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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