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08/15/2012
Deal Of The Day 08/15/12
Okla.-based Cherokee Communications is using the Zhone MXK platform from FTTx network access provider Zhone Technologies Inc. to get triple-play services out to its residential and business subscribers. By integrating VDSL2 interfaces to support bandwidth speeds as fast as 100 Mbps, Cherokee says its subs will have access to wire-speed gigabit connectivity, and “the derived […]
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08/15/2012
Money Matters 08/15/12
Ubiquisys, a developer of 3G and LTE intelligent small cells, raised another $19 million via an oversubscribed round from new investors Mobile Internet Capital and Nissay Capital together with existing investors that include 5CCG/Sallfort Privatbank AG, Accel Partners, Advent Venture Partners, Atlas Venture and Yasuda. The company plans to use the capital “to generate further […]
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08/15/2012
New Stuff 08/15/12
Apple was granted a set-top box patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday. According to the company, the device would allow Apple TV devices to work with cable TV, and the STB also would enable the recording of live TV content…The Juno T41 handheld computer from Trimble, available next month, includes a choice […]
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08/15/2012
Inside The Beltway 08/15/12
In comments filed earlier this week, the American Cable Association responded to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued by the Copyright Office under the authority of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA), tasking the Copyright Office “to craft regulations that will minimize the costs for cable operators, especially smaller ones, in the […]
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08/15/2012
Survey Sez 08/15/12
Dell’Oro Group forecasts sales of high-bandwidth-enabling GPON OLTs, DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS and VDSL infrastructure equipment will be the lead growth segments in the access market through 2016, offsetting declining revenue for slower-speed ADSL equipment. The group also indicates GPON will have the highest growth rate, followed by CMTS and VDSL. Comments Steve Nozik, principal analyst/Access, “For CMTS, […]
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08/15/2012
Chicago Tops U.S. ‘Internet Essentials’ Take-Up
Earlier today, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen, and civic and community leaders kicked off the second year of Comcast’s “Internet Essentials” broadband program designed to help close the digital divide among low-income Americans. In its first full year of availability, nearly 100,000 families (400,000 individuals) signed up for the […]