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DISH Network, a pay TV provider, announced the availability of an advanced home high definition (HD) DVR entertainment system called "Hopper" for the entire home. The Hopper HD DVR and accompanying small Joey set-top boxes create a whole-home HD DVR entertainment system that lets DISH customers easily record, pause, and play back shows from any room in the home
3/16/2012
Xfone, a provider of high speed broadband services, including Internet access, digital cable TV programming and local and long distance telephone service to residential and business customers, announced that it connected its first triple play customer in Littlefield, Texas.
6/6/2011
Genband, a developer of IP infrastructure and application solutions, announced the completion of its acquisition of Cedar Point Communications, a provider of IP switching solutions for cable service providers.
1/18/2011
Teradata Corporation, a company specializing in database software, enterprise data warehousing, data warehouse appliances, and analytics, said that DIRECTV, a company that has contributed to the evolution of TV through its HD programming, interactive features, digital video recorder services, quality customer service, and electronic program guide, will implement Teradata's Active Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system in its new data center in Phoenix.
7/1/2010
The curriculum, which is designed for after-school programs, is based on national science standards and highlights the science, technology, engineering and math behind cable television. Time Warner Cable employees will service as mentors and role models.
3/29/2010
The new release of TiVo's digital video recording service is notable for its gianormous storage and great new search capabilities, according to reports.
3/25/2010
Dish Network filed a lawsuit in New York Federal Court on Monday against competitor DirecTV over commercials for the satellite television provider's high-definition channels.
3/23/2010
ANTENNA Group, one of the Greek media groups reaching Greek-speaking audiences in all continents, reportedly announced that it has agreed to buy the 49 percent of News Corp's Serbian stake, Fox Televizija.
12/29/2009
Openet, a provider of Transactional Intelligence, has entered into a joint partnership with Sandvine, a provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for cable, DSL, FTTx, fixed wireless and mobile operators, to bring a network policy control and charging solution to broadband and wireless network providers across the globe.
9/15/2009
According to Edgeware officials, the company's orbit video delivery platform features built-in capability to record live TV channels, enabling cable and telco operators to deploy on-demand TV services within their existing networks.
9/14/2009
Orckit Communications Ltd., a carrier ethernet + transport networking vendor, has announced that its CM-4000 product has been selected by a telecommunication service provider in India through an OEM channel.
9/14/2009
Dell'Oro Group's latest quarterly Access report reveals that worldwide revenue for DSL, cable and PON Access equipment marked its first sequential increase in a year, in the second quarter of 2009 thanks to strong EPON shipments to China and Japan.
8/27/2009
EnableTV, Inc. has reportedly released DV-TIDE 2.0, a PC-based headend solution. The DV-TIDE 2.0 supports host control over multiple DV-TIDE systems with a combined channel map, and delivery of bound and unbound applications that provide testing in an environment that is similar to a cable plant without a headend.
8/14/2009
Digeo, Inc., a provider of premium home entertainment products including digital video recorders, has reportedly revealed its new multi-room Moxi Mate that will connect with the Moxi HD DVR over the home network to let users browse and watch recorded programs from any room.
The company said has said that its focus now is to transform their world's best DVR into an even better device, and the company is working hard to rapidly deliver innovations and additions to the Moxi HD DVR for the most discriminating customers. With Moxi Mate it is taking the Moxi experience to the whole home with a simple compact and economical solution.
8/10/2009
IPtimize, a provider of broadband voice and data services reportedly announced that it will deploy a second application server from BroadSoft, Inc. enabling it to expand its suite of advanced multimedia IP applications to both its residential and commercial cable system customers.
The company said that the BroadSoft BroadWorks VoIP application platform helps it build its multimedia IP services. Suburban and rural cable systems offer business services and the scalable IPtimize platform is preferred by customers in markets of all sizes. The increase in capacity allows new IPZI customers to migrate to the new expanded platform.
8/3/2009
Bridgewater Systems, a mobile personalization company, recently reported its second quarter revenue, which reached $14.85 million, according to the company.
According to Ed Ogonek, CEO of Bridgewater Systems, the second quarter, which ended June 30, was driven by new orders for their WideSpan system, momentum in the WiMAX market and continued strength in their core markets. Taking a cue from its performance in the first half of the year, Bridgewater Systems increased its full-year forecasts and now expect revenue of $53.51 million to $57.19 million and earnings of $7.37 million to $9.22 million.
8/3/2009
Looking to provide ultra fast Internet speeds and advanced services to its customers, Massillon Cable TV, Inc., reportedly selected Motorola BSR 64000 Cable Modem Termination System and the high density Motorola TX32 downstream module. Motorola said that the contract showcases the company's ability to meet the increasing online traffic demands faced by cable operators all over the world.
7/27/2009
Northern British Columbia-based CityWest Cable and Telephone Corp. said that it is expanding its fiber-optic network and has selected BTI Systems as its primary supplier.
7/20/2009
In an effort to help managed network operators deliver the best possible video experience to consumers, SeaChange International has reportedly announced a new universal session resource manager. According to SeaChange, its uSRM will provide guarantee quality of service across access, aggregation and edge networks.
7/17/2009
The bulk of that revenue, Pike & Fischer analysts predict, will be going to the nation's three top cable operators – Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications. But smaller cable companies will also generate increasing amounts of revenue from business customers, the Silver Spring, Md.-based market research provider concludes.
7/17/2009
Cox Business has announced that it has completed fiber network extensions to one of the largest commercial data centers in the world.
According to Cox Business officials the i/o Data Centers' Phoenix ONE colocation facility represents more than 530,000 square feet of data center space for businesses to house enterprise and mission critical IT systems.
7/14/2009
Continuing from our last article, the ability to bring your home with you, wherever you might be, is at the heart of home services. For this level of ubiquity to work, the network must have a global span. Unfortunately, one major shortcoming of DLNA is that it's been designed for LAN use only. However, a number of methods have been devised to remote enable DLNA. They are listed below.
4/27/2009
LifeSize will showcase its offerings as part of the Broadband Nation exhibit which will exhibit the innovative ways broadband can be used in urban, suburban and rural settings.
4/1/2009
The Zodiac iTV Movie Guide demonstrates the use of movie data feeds from Macrovision Data Solutions to display detailed movie information that cross references movies, cast members, genre, and much more.
3/30/2009
ActiveVideo said that it's all set to show several EBIF applications that provide increased viewer engagement in the first week of April at a trade show.
3/30/2009
The set-top box is moving toward extinction, as Sony Electronics and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association said they signed an agreement that will allow viewers to rid themselves of the boxes, yet still receive advanced "two-way" cable services, such as pay-per-view movies.
5/28/2008
Looking to meet the growing demand for its content monitoring systems worldwide, Mixed Signals, the provider of digital content monitoring systems, has announced the recruitment of four new employees at the NCTA's Cable Show. Jeff Porter, Rob Wiggins, Tino Muders and Crystal Hoey have been hired as the newest sales executives.
5/27/2008
TANDBERG Television has announced that ZON TVCabo of Portugal has chosen its OpenStream Digital Services platform for its planned video on-demand (VOD) services, and also to take the role of lead integrator for the VOD play-out. The leadership maintained by TANDBERG Television in the on-demand market, and many recent customer announcements in both Europe and China are behind this deal.
5/21/2008
TVN Entertainment Corp., a television on-demand company, and Suddenlink Communications, an operator of cable broadband systems, announced that TVN will provide the company with a comprehensive Video on Demand (VOD) solutions package.
5/21/2008
Thomson recently announced that it had delivered 1.5 million digital cable set-top boxes to Brazilian cable operator NET Serviços. These figures further emphasize Thomson's position as one of the leading providers of convergent premises solutions to operators all across the globe. Reports fromNET Serviços indicate that the company has huge expansion plans in the Brazilian market and is heavily dependant upon Thomson to help them fulfill this goal.
5/21/2008
Kulabyte, a developer of advanced video solutions for live streaming of high quality video, multi-format capturing, encoding and transcoding, first debuted its solution back in March for the "Operation MySpace" live concert webcast from Kuwait. Now, the company has announced it's been delivering an increased number of its full frame rate streaming video solutions to other networks and broadcasts since the event.
5/20/2008
Seagate Technology announced at the NCTA's Cable Show that it will introduce its Seagate Showcase storage solution which is a series of products capable of extending the storage capacity of a Digital Video Recorder (DVR).
5/20/2008
Cable operators care about ad revenues, as you might expect. What might surprise you is the amount of attention advertising gets when it represents a bit more than five percent of cable operator revenue.
5/20/2008
At The Cable Show in New Orleans, SinglePipe announced a partnership with CMA Communications. SinglePipe will act as the managed service provider for CMA's digital phone solutions for both residential and business customers.
5/19/2008
EchoStar Technologies made its entry into the cable market this week with the introduction of its latest product, the CableLabs Certified DOCSIS 2.0 SlingModem.
5/19/2008
According to FSN, the move means that FSN will produce more than 3,000 Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League and NCAA Football and Basketball events in HD – a figure which is "far and away more than any other sports TV provider in the U.S.," the company said.
5/19/2008
Tru2way's technology and interactive TV applications will be highlighted this week at the cable industry's convention, The Cable Show '08. Tru2way technology is a retail brand for the OpenCable hardware and OCAP (software) technical initiatives.
5/19/2008
Ambit Microsystems, a developer of wired and wireless broadband communications, has selected the Alticast tru2way platform middleware solution, AltiCaptor, for their digital cable set-top boxes.
5/19/2008
OpenTV, a provider of solutions for the delivery of advanced television and advanced advertising services, has announced the general availability of OpenTV EclipsePlus
5/19/2008
Shane Eleniak said the company's Return Path Receiver provides several distinct advantages, including temperature hardening for outdoor installations and a 4dB noise performance improvement over competitive products.
5/19/2008
A new center gives partners a flexibility to pick and choose the areas where they can tap Nortel's extensive small business experience to get assistance in entering the growing small and business market rapidly, according to the company.
5/19/2008
Open networks are not typically a service provider's first choice of how to organize the way applications gain carriage on a network. To a genuine extent, such networks shift profit potential away from network access providers and towards third parties. Cable TV and voice are the two easy to understand examples.
5/19/2008
Cable providers are constantly looking to increase their average revenue per user (ARPU), naturally. But there's only so much they can charge for basic levels of service, and increasingly consumer pressure to keep prices down makes raising the cost of content-only packages a tricky situation.
5/19/2008
