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10/20/2011
Multiscreen Vendor Qwilt Raises $24 Million
Qwilt, which was founded in 2010 by veterans of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks and helps Internet-service providers deliver multiscreen video, has raised $24 million in two rounds of funding from Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Crescent Point Group and other investors. "So much of the buzz about Internet video today is on the consumer side, […]
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10/20/2011
ABI: Satellite Operators Look to Hybrid Set-Tops
Hybrid set-top boxes are rapidly being deployed by pay-TV operators worldwide to help them deliver advanced services and manage bandwidth scarcity. In 2010, only 40 percent of set-top boxes worldwide featured hybrid capabilities, with many not yet enabled by software as operators were not ready to deploy IP video services, according to ABI Research’s “Set-Top […]
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10/20/2011
Telcos Tap Trend to Use Personal Devices for Work
Following on the heels of a similar announcement from AT&T, Verizon Wireless today said it has partnered with VMware to introduce to the market VMware Horizon Mobile, enabling Verizon Wireless business subscribers to toggle between work applications and personal applications on a single Android device. (For the AT&T news, click here). VMware Horizon Mobile will […]
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10/20/2011
Cisco’s BNI Video Buy Should Boost Videoscape
Since rolling out its Videoscape product at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Cisco’s customers have asked the vendor to help them transition to the new architecture. To assist with that, Cisco is purchasing BNI Video for approximately $99 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange for all shares of BNI Video. Cisco has […]
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10/19/2011
ARRIS Selects MaxLinear for 8-Channel DOCSIS 3.0 Equipment
Integrated circuits provider MaxLinear is providing ARRIS with the MxL261 dual-wideband tuner + quad demodulator for a new family of DOCSIS 3.0 consumer premise equipment (CPE). The MxL261 is a dual-wideband tuner, quad QAM demodulator digital cable front-end chip with the ability to capture eight channels in two independent 100MHz input frequency bands located anywhere […]
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10/19/2011
Broadcom Chip Achieves 1.25 Gbps for 4G Microwave Backhaul
The transition to 4G networks continues to drive the need for higher capacity and packet traffic in mobile backhaul networks. To meet the demand, Broadcom Corporation has developed the BCM85620 system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed specifically to address the need for higher bandwidth in mobile backhaul. The BCM85620 delivers Gigabit bandwidth and beyond and combines a baseband […]