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04/26/2012
FCC’s CAF Promises More Rural Broadband
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) “Connect America Fund (CAF),” recently created as part of “once-in-a-generation reform” of the Universal Service Fund (USF), finally has been launched, aiming to “cut waste and imposed strict fiscal responsibility standards on the fund, preventing it from growing beyond its current size” and to “extend high-speed Internet to up to […]
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04/26/2012
Register Now For The 2012 Cable Show Tech Breakfast
How are service providers coping with the influx of consumer-electronics equipment hooked into their broadband connections? What management and diagnostic tools, and what best practices are being used today to help ensure the connected home stays connected? We have some answers for you! "Handling The Connected Home" is this year’s theme of the annual […]
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04/25/2012
USF Reform: Sticking To The Path Of Progress
Last fall, a unanimous FCC approved long-overdue reform to modernize the universal service fund (USF) and related intercarrier compensation (ICC) payments, crafting new mechanisms better suited to today’s competitive realities and furthering our national goal of extending broadband to all Americans. The FCC’s gradual transition plan and new framework promotes greater efficiency; instills needed fiscal […]
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04/25/2012
EEE Portfolio Adds More Energy-Efficient PHYs
Broadcom Corporation added four energy efficient devices to its Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) portfolio. Optimized for use in Ethernet network applications, the company says its 10/100/1000BASE-T physical layer transceivers (PHYs) lower operating power by more than 40 percent (1), and by 70 percent or more through the implementation of EEE (2). The energy-efficient PHYs – […]
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04/25/2012
Pro-Vision 2.0 Supports MEF Carrier-Ethernet Specs
MRV Communications Inc. says its Optical Communications Systems Division (OCS) has enhanced its Pro-Vision Service Management Solution to allow users to more effectively manage next-generation services via MRV’s OptiSwitch family of Carrier Ethernet products and optical transport Lambda Driver and Fiber Driver elements. The enhanced Pro-Vision solution, dubbed Pro-Vision 2.0, adds such benefits as shorter […]
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04/25/2012
U.K. Touts First Operating ‘White Spaces’ Network
The city of Cambridge in the U.K. reportedly is the site of the world’s first citywide, fully functional wireless network operating in the white space, “enabling a whole host of Smart City applications,” says “Internet of Things” provider Neul. White space is the unused and underused parts of the wireless spectrum. For example, around the […]