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08/22/2012
Jeers And Cheers: The FCC’s Eighth Broadband Progress Report
The FCC’s most recent 181-page broadband progress report is not garnering good press right now, with commissioners split along party lines when it comes to broadband uptake and questions about the agency’s interpretation of how Congress wants progress measured. (The background: Congress, in Section 706 the Telecommunications Act of 1996, requires the FCC to report […]
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08/21/2012
Events 08/21/12
The opening session of the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in October will feature the panel “Mid-Size Insights: Challenges and Solutions Faced By Small to Mid-Size Cable Operators.” Moderated by Ken Wright, principal of Wright Solutions and technology advisor to NCTC, the panel includes Michael Giobbi, CTO at Armstrong Communications; Wade Holmes, vice president/Technology at BendBroadband; Joseph […]
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08/21/2012
People Watch 08/21/12
Atlanta-based iNovo Broadband Inc., a start-up specializing in service-provider-centric customer premises equipment, hired cable industry veteran Michael Harney as CEO. Harney recently led Cisco’s Service Provider Video Technology Group.
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08/21/2012
Deals Of The Day 08/21/12
Mitel, Vidyo Inc. and VMware unveiled a new, integrated solution combining UCC and video conferencing with VMware View. Specifically, Mitel and Vidyo integrated Mitel’s virtualized Unified Communicator (UC) Advanced client software and the VidyoConferencing collaboration solution with VMware View to deliver a single, unified solution they say enables collaboration over any medium while delivering reduced […]
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08/21/2012
Global Connections 08/21/12
Cable & Wireless Seychelles just completed its two-year buildout of a nationwide fiber-to-the-curb network supported by the Seychelles East Africa System (SEAS) subsea cable network. The Seychelles previously relied on satellite connections for its broadband service.
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08/21/2012
New Stuff 08/21/12
Digital video provider VITEC has two new portable Optibase IPTV appliances – the MGW Nano Encoder and the MGW Micro Premium Decoder. The Optibase MGW Nano is an industrial-grade, small-form-factor MPEG H.264 encoding and streaming appliance for portable and stationary applications with minimal space availability, designed for low-latency dissemination of HD and SD video sources […]