Articles of Interest - Archive
12.02.2011
Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks Sell Advanced Wireless Spectrum to Verizon Wireless for $3.6 Billion - SpectrumCo, LLC, a joint venture between Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks, today announced it has entered into an agreement pursuant to which Verizon Wireless will acquire its 122 Advanced Wireless Services spectrum licenses covering 259 million POPs for $3.6 billion. Comcast owns 63.6% of SpectrumCo and will receive approximately $2.3 billion from the sale. Time Warner Cable owns 31.2% of SpectrumCo and will receive approximately $1.1 billion. Bright House Networks owns 5.3% of SpectrumCo and will receive approximately $189 million. (click to read release)
12.01.2011
Charter Boosts Speeds, Keeps Pricing the Same - Charter, the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, is boosting its consumer download and uploads speeds across its DOCSIS 3.0 network while keeping the pricing the same. (click to read article)
11.21.2011
CableLabs® New San Francisco Bay Area Office Designed to Foster Technology Innovation through Collaboration - CableLabs®, the global industry technology research consortium, has opened a new office in San Francisco, Calif., giving the organization a deeper presence in a community renowned for its technology innovation and its contributions to the evolving Internet ecosystem. (click to read release)
05.23.2011
MoCA – Officially The Fastest Growing Home Networking Technology (mocablog.net/) - Reports from the big market research firms are starting to confirm what should be obvious to home networking enthusiasts – that MoCA coax networking is the fastest growing home networking technology around. (click to read blog)
MoCA web site specifically for the CEDIA and home theatre installer community (connectbystuf.org). MoCA web site specifically for the CEDIA and home theatre installer community. (click to read blog)
No One Size Fits All - Exploring Home Networking Options: MoCA, HomePNA, Powerline (HomePlug), Ethernet, 802.11n, and G.hn (HomeGrid) - (ospmag.com) The desire to stream or access entertainment media anywhere inside the home is driving renewed interest in a next-generation home entertainment network. Yet, this network must provide greater bandwidth to handle the requirements of high-definition video with great quality-of-service assurances so that pristine high-definition programs can be streamed around the home fast enough to avoid glitches or annoying visual artifacts. (click to read article)
DLNA announces new interoperability guidelines (CedMagazine.com) - With this week's Connected Home Global Summit 2011 in London serving as the backdrop, the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) announced the release of new interoperability guidelines. Developed in conjunction with global cable, satellite and telecommunications service providers, the new interoperability guidelines leverage DTCP-IP Protected Streaming to make service provider content more easily available for playback across digital televisions, Blu-ray disc players, game consoles and set-top boxes. (click to read article)
05.11.2011
HBO Go app hits 1 million downloads in first week (news.cnet.com) - BO's mobile app has apparently caught on quickly.Speaking yesterday at the Streaming Media East conference, HBO co-President Eric Kessler said HBO Go's mobile application, which is available on iOS- and Android-based devices, was downloaded over 1 million times during the first week of availability. The free app launched April 29. (read article on news.cnet.com)
05.10.2011
Cox Communications Launches TV Online, Thousands of TV shows and movies now available (sacbee.com) - Now customers have the choice to view favorite shows: on TV, On DEMAND and now Online via the cox.com/tv site anywhere they have access to a broadband connection. No special equipment is required; customers simply need a computer with a flash supported browser, a broadband connection within the United States and their Cox user ID and password. (read article on sacbee.com)
VBrick Delivers Comprehensive Solution to Extend HD Streaming Video Across Distributed Enterprise Environments - Enterprise IP video leader VBrick Systems today introduced the industry’s first comprehensive Enterprise Content Delivery Network (ECDN) platform for the efficient distribution of live and on-demand rich media content over a wide array of enterprise networks. The Distributed Media Engine (DME) ensures that video content can be viewed on virtually any multimedia device, including smart phones and tablets. In addition, advanced bandwidth optimization enables DME-based solutions to exceed the video demands of today’s globally distributed workforce. (read article on sys-con.com)
05.04.2011
DirecTV Aiming to Launch its Controversial VOD Service Next Week (thewrap.com) - DirecTV hopes to launch Home Premiere, its contentious video-on-demand service next week, an executive with one of the studios involved in the launch confirms to TheWrap. The service will offer $30 movies rentals from Sony, Universal, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox as soon as two months after their theatrical release. (read article on the wrap.com)
White Paper: Cellular Backhaul: Cable's Towering Opportunity (by Alan Breznick, Senior Analyst, heavyreading.com)
Time Warner Cable Offers Their Broadband Network to Cell Phone Companies; ‘Exaflood’ Apparently Doesn’t Apply (stopthecap.com) - Time Warner Cable is offering mobile phone providers a solution to their clogged wireless networks — clog ours instead! Business Week notes the cable company has been aggressively pitching its broadband network to cell phone companies in New York City, which can be used to transport cell phone calls and mobile data between cell towers and the providers’ operations centers. (read article on stopthecap.com)
Mobile Backhaul: Opportunity Knocks for Cable Operators (cedmagazine.com) - New LTE networks give cable operators another opportunity to boost their bottom lines. Mobile backhaul has been a mainstay for Cox Communications’ revenue over the past 10 years, but with the advent of the new Long Term Evolution networks, Cox and other cable operators are looking to tap into an even bigger revenue stream. (read article on cedmagazine.com)
05.03.2011
AT&T Starts Capping Broadband (CNNMoney.Com) - The days of all-you-can-surf broadband are vanishing. AT&T this week began capping its Internet delivery service for broadband and DSL customers. The move comes 11 months after it placed similar caps on its mobile customers. But AT&T isn't alone in instituting restrictions on residential broadband usage. (click to read full article on cnnmoney.com)
Up In The Cloud, Telcos Seek The Host With The Most (Reuters) - Surging Internet traffic, growing demand from business and an explosion in the number of mobile devices have ramped up demand for online storage, triggering a race among telecoms firms and equipment makers to acquire Web hosting companies. (read full article on reuters.com)
Sprint Takes Aim at AT&T-Mobile In West Virginia PUC (multichannel.com) - Sprint is taking its opposition to the AT&T/T-Mobile deal to the state public utility commissions. Sprint has submitted a formal request of the West Virginia state PUC to investigate the proposed $39 billion deal, saying it would adversely impact West Virginians because it would raise prices, restrict innovation and limit choice. It would also increase the footprint of one of Sprint's key competitors in the wireless space. (read article on multichannel.com)
05.02.2011
Dish, EchoStar Will Pay TiVo $500 Million To Settle Patent Litigation (multichannel.com) - Under Agreement, TiVo Also Will Promote Dish's Blockbuster Digital Video Service. (read article on mutichannel.com)
04.28.2011
For Time Warner Cable, Broadband Booms (gigaom.com) - Thanks to Netflix, the demand for broadband connections for Time Warner Cable is on an upswing. During its most recent quarter (ended March 31, 2011), the company added about 189,000 broadband Internet customers — about 70 percent higher than some analyst estimates of around 111,000 for the quarter. (read article on gigaom.com)
02.11.2010
ABI: MoCA Gains Traction (abiresearch.com) - In homes receiving cable television, MoCA – one of the most widely-used home media networking technologies – will be supported by some 15 million next-generation set-top boxes by 2014, according to new forecasts from ABI Research. The next generation of set-top boxes extends beyond HD and PVR functionality. (read article on abiresearch.com)
