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09/04/2012
Convening in Charlotte—TWC Serves Up WiFi, Grits and Video
With the Democratic National Convention set to kick off Tuesday night, Time Warner Cable is taking advantage of its Charlotte system being in the spotlight for the week. And we’re not just talking about the fact that much of the convention will take place at the Time Warner Cable Arena. The MSO has timed its WiFi deployment in Charlotte to roll out during the DNC.
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09/04/2012
Events 09/04/12
In anticipation of all the wireless tweeting and Facebooking activity starting today at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Time Warner Cable installed the Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex family of high-capacity Smart Wireless LAN (WLAN) systems to provide high-speed Wi-Fi throughout the 19,000-seat Time Warner Cable Arena. The new Wi-Fi network replaces the old one […]
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09/04/2012
People Watch 09/04/12
Former BigBand Networks exec Thomas Ringkamp is the new vice president/Operations at Clearleap, reporting directly to CEO Braxton Jarratt. Ringkamp will oversee media, data center and network operations; and customer support and program management…Glen Powers joins fiber-optic-based video-and-audio transport solution provider MultiDyne as vice president/Sales.
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09/04/2012
Deals Of The Day 09/04/12
Zayo Group wrapped its $117 million acquisition of FiberGate Inc., a Washington, D.C.-area provider of dark-fiber services, adding 399 new route miles and 130,000 fiber miles in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, Baltimore and suburban Maryland to Zayo’s network. The new owner says it will continue to offer dark fiber while expanding the service portfolio to […]
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09/04/2012
Global Connections 09/04/12
Optical-networking specialist Optelian, now on a trade mission to Southeast Asia with the Honourable Ed Fast, Canada’s Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, says Myanmar Post and Telegraph (MPT) is using its LightGAIN Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) systems for cellular backhaul and as a backbone network…According to SES, satellite TV […]
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09/04/2012
Survey Sez 09/04/12
Second-quarter revenue for VDSL equipment grew 15 percent year over year, driven by record VDSL port shipments on infrastructure equipment and record CPE unit shipments, notes new research from Dell’Oro Group. Adtran, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei were the lead vendors for VDSL port shipments on network infrastructure equipments, while Huawei, Pace (2Wire) and ZyXEL were the […]