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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 […]
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08/21/2012
Survey Sez 08/21/12
"Stimulus-based broadband deployments and Verizon’s continued purchase of optical network terminals are finally starting to move the needle in North America, where spending on GPON equipment surpassed the $100 million mark for the first time since 2010," notes Jeff Heynen, directing analyst/Broadband Access and Video at Infonetics Research. "China posted its second largest PON quarter […]
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08/21/2012
To Market, To Market 08/21/12
YuMe, a provider of digital brand advertising software and services, teamed with research firm Frank N. Magid Associates Inc. to poll connected-TV subscribers regarding behavior, preferences and ad opportunities. Among the top survey insights: 30 percent of Internet-connected households have some form of connected TV; nearly 90 percent notice ads on the platform, particularly pre-roll, […]
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08/20/2012
People Watch 08/20/12
Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and New York Police Department Deputy Chief Charles Dowd have been appointed to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) Board of Directors, which was authorized through the public-safety broadband-communications provisions of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. That law focuses on the reallocation of critical […]
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08/20/2012
Global Connections 08/20/12
Yesterday, a Sea Launch Zenit 3SL launch vehicle successfully sent the Intelsat 21 satellite aloft from a mobile platform in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The orbiter will serve direct-to-home (DTH) and cable programmers in Latin America, and it replaces Intelsat 9…Thai cable and satellite provider TrueVisions selected ATEME’s Kyrion encoders and decoders to link its […]