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06/01/2011
Amdocs Launches TM Forum Frameworx iPad/iPhone Application
Amdocs is making available an interactive Frameworx application for Apple smart devices, enabling users to navigate through the multi-layered models of TM Forum’s Frameworx components, from the convenience of an iPhone or iPad. The new Frameworx application, designed for communications industry professionals on the move, has made the entire Frameworx industry standards easily accessible to […]
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06/01/2011
SureWest Accelerates Fiber Build in Kansas
SureWest Communications’ Board of Directors has approved adding 5,000 new homes to its 2011 capital plan, resulting in a total of 15,500 fiber home additions scheduled this year in Olathe, Kan. Steve Oldham, SureWest’s president and chief executive officer, said in a statement, "Our goal is to reach 35-40 percent in total penetration on the […]
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06/01/2011
Alcatel-Lucent Invents OTT Video-Monitoring Service
Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, part of Bell Labs, says its new AppGlide Video Analytics offering identifies over-the-top (OTT) video quality issues while also providing metrics that give service providers a better understanding of viewing trends and overall network performance. The cloud-based, hosted solution combines data from video-player plug-ins, quality of experience (QoE) agents, content-delivery network (CDN) devices […]
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06/01/2011
Reclaiming Analog Spectrum For The Future
Driven by the needs of today’s high-demand services, some operators face increased pressure to provide subscribers with greater upstream bandwidth capacities. To meet this need, many now are looking to implement a higher split return. While this once was considered to be an arduous process, using Fiber Deep and the recent digital shift, the process […]
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06/01/2011
Just How Strong Is That Ingress?
From time to time, I correspond with cable system technical staff who are dealing with upstream ingress from a Citizens Band (CB) radio signal in the vicinity of 27 MHz. In some cases, the ingress is quite strong, leading outside plant personnel to believe the CBer must be using an illegal linear amplifier to boost […]
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06/01/2011
What's In Your Network?
Remember the scene in the movie “Network,” when Peter Finch got everyone to scream, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore?” That’s the way I felt on a recent out-of-town trip when I couldn’t get an unfamiliar data card to work with my laptop. After some impassioned email and a […]