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Cable/MSO
Our reporting analyzes the progress of the transformation, highlights success stories, new solutions/ implementations, and identifies challenges present for MSOs as they engage their evolutions. It provides periodic updates on operators' initiatives, vendors' progress and traction in cable markets worldwide.
Governments worldwide are investing massively in bridging the so-called digital divide. The US government alone is allocating over $73 billion to extend br ...
3 Keys for MSPs to Unlock the Economic Value of an Integrated Wired, Wireless, and WAN Offering Join Ray Mota, CEO of ACG Research, and Liliane Offredo- ...
MNOs were glad to off load massive amounts of data traffic onto these low-end, best effort, free networks, providing, of course, that their LTE netwo ...
In the article “How Big a Threat Is VoWi-Fi to the LTE Operator?” (Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hgAzT073Q) I illustrated ...
Unlike the rest of the network the access network is burdened with federal, state and local regulations and this is only getting worse. I’ve written ...
According to Arris (USA) has agreed to acquire Pace (UK) for $2.1 billion; the key benefits of the deal are to accelerate growth and to improve financ ...
The network-terminating CPE device provided by the access network service provider is at an inflection point: it’s at the intersection of service pro ...
In November 2005, Scientific Atlanta, Inc., a Georgia-based developer and manufacturer of consumer video and data services products, was acquired by Cisco ...
Although most U.S. customers still use cable boxes, video consumption is rapidly changing to “TV Everywhere,” where a streaming service allows ...
Cisco Systems has announced its intent to buy OTT cloud streaming service provider 1Mainstream to deliver improved cloud-based and live-streaming services ...
Analog over the air, on-demand and OTT experience are pushing vendors to evolve video technology and develop more sophisticated and viable business models ...
Providers are responding to consumers’ demands by updating their networks, migrating to new technology and changing business models Video distribu ...
The SCTE Tech Expo, which took place September 26–29, 2016, drew in more than 10,000 attendees, up 21% over the past year If there was a thre ...
To succeed in a vertical approach, SPs must consider several important factors Internet of things presents a significant opportunity for service provi ...
Service providers' IoT strategies may differ, but one thing is clear, they need to create a cohesive ecosystem to succeed The explosive g ...
Service providers’ roadmap for digital transformation must focus on improving the customer experience Service providers are facing competition fro ...
MVPDs should focus on the customer to win in the hyper-competitive video delivery space 4.24.2017 One of the key tenets of digital disruption is th ...
At the recent ANGACOM event in Germany, there was a lot of buzz about Distributed Access Architecture (DAA). Many vendors were demonstrating Remote-PHY sol ...
As Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization have matured, cable companies are making plans to leverage those technologies to ...
To succeed in a tumultuous marketplace, service providers need to transform their companies for the digital age Competition, customer expectations, decl ...
Videotron joins Cox, Shaw and Rogers to the list of MVPD customers that have licensed and syndicated X1, Comcast’s cloud-based entertainment platform ...
Comcast is undergoing a digital transformation and committing to software Comcast Business hosted an analyst day recently during which it shared its str ...
Nokia delivers an industry-leading, virtualized DAA solution, eliminating the need to choose between R-MACPHY and R-PHY Cable operators have accepted th ...
At the SCTE Tech Expo in Denver, one clearly sensed a disturbance in the industry. Judging from the level of interest in Remote PHY (it is well known by no ...
As Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Jim Hepplemann, CEO of PTC, put it in their recent webinar (which was also highlighted in multiple ...
As cable operators race to meet the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth in the last mile, they continuously reduce the size of the service groups ...
Harmonic’s recent announcement of the deployment of its CableOS solution by Com Hem, a major Swedish cable operator in northern Europe, hig ...
Despite all the hype around SD-WAN, there is true momentum building up in the enterprise market and a strong willingness to abandon MPLS. Surprisingly, mor ...
Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) enables the cloud-based delivery of enterprise communication services that include telephony, video conferencin ...
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) was developed to modernize the cable headend and to enable operators to meet the exponential growing demand for b ...
Cisco introduced its cloud-native CCAP, which was demonstrated at SCTE 2017. The new solution, named cnBR is not an iteration of the cBR-8, Cisco’s c ...
Many technologies and operational improvements are available to them in the short and longer term to support this end.Operators today are increasing the ...
The telecommunications industry has been riding the hype wave of virtualization over the past few years, and the cable industry has not been immune to this ...
Overall revenue from Converged Cable Access Platform solutions in 4Q 2019 was soft, continuing a trend that has prevailed throughout 2019. Revenue in 2019 ...
The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) is defined by the cable industry as an architecture to meet the industry’s 10G goal, to deliver the capacit ...