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05/18/2012
Practice Up: The SCTE IP Challenge Returns
The SCTE IP Challenge, a competition designed to test knowledge and to heighten understanding of Internet Protocol (IP) technologies, will make its second appearance at this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo later this year in Orlando. Sponsored by Cisco Systems, the event begins this weekend with online practice, followed by qualifying rounds open to all interested […]
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05/18/2012
North America Set To Lose LTE Sub Leadership By 2014
Global LTE subscriptions are projected to top 40 million by the end of the year – a fourfold increase of the 9 million global LTE users last year. Driving this, says ABI Research, is the wide range of expected LTE smartphone launches in 2012 from such manufacturers as Nokia, Samsung and Apple, coupled with the […]
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05/18/2012
TWC First To Use BlackArrow Ad Router
Time Warner Cable (TWC) is going with the BlackArrow Advanced Advertising System to power a system-wide deployment of real-time, dynamic ad insertion within on-demand content.? Using the BlackArrow system, TWC says it intends to “bring timely, relevant on-demand advertisements to an audience that will include some of the nation’s largest media markets, providing the critical […]
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05/17/2012
‘Missing Link’ For Home-Network Management
The UPnP Forum has both adopted and published its new Standardized Device Management:2 Device Control Protocols (DCPs) as it continues its work in standardizing and managing the operation of LAN IP devices within the home network. The group, whose mission is to enable device-to-device interoperability and to facilitate easier and better home networking, says […]
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05/17/2012
Huawei Touts Successful LTE Cat 4 Euro Test
The “world’s first successful execution of a LTE Category 4 field trial on a commercial LTE network in Europe” was completed recently by China’s Huawei, with the field trial demonstrating download data rates of as much as 150 Mbps. ?? The trial was based on one LTE Category 4 device and one commercial LTE network […]
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05/17/2012
Survey Sez: Optical Vendors Deal With Spending Cuts
Spending on optical gear dropped 23 percent globally in 1Q12, when compared with 4Q11, with EMEA suffering the most, says new data from Infonetics Research. “While optical hardware revenue trends in all world regions were not positive in the first quarter of 2012, the most alarming development is that year-over-year in EMEA – particularly Europe […]