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05/31/2011
Alcatel-Lucent Puts the Smarts Into Chattanooga's Smart Grid
EPB, Chattanooga’s electric power distributor and a communications provider, and Alcatel-Lucent have teamed to ultimately provide energy management options to customers throughout the region by developing techniques to help analyze energy usage at unprecedented levels of detail. EPB operates a high-speed optical fiber network – powered by Alcatel-Lucent’s gigabit passive optical network (GPON) technology – […]
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05/31/2011
Level 3 Builds Fiber To Information Television Network
Level 3 Communications has signed an agreement with Information Television Network (ITV), a producer of health and wellness broadcast programming based in Florida, to provide bandwidth support for the company’s production needs. Due to increased viewership and a move to more high-definition (HD) programming, bandwidth requirements for ITV have increased. The production company also requires network […]
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05/27/2011
Small Cable Operator Deploys Hosted SDV
The biggest challenge for Cable Cable – a small triple-play provider in Ontario, Canada – is competing for video subscribers against satellite behemoths and their huge marketing budgets. Cable Cable has about 4,200 subscribers. Its HFC plant can beat satellite in Internet and telephony, says Michael Fiorini, general manager at Cable Cable, but it has […]
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05/27/2011
ACA Seeks Changes From FCC To Proposed Video Description Rules
The American Cable Association is requesting adjustments and clarifications from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to proposed video description regulations to ensure that new rules do not place unnecessary financial burdens on small cable providers in their effort to comply. In comments filed today, ACA asked the FCC to clarify that the video description rules […]
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05/27/2011
YuMe Integrates Advertising On Roku
YuMe is providing video advertising for content partners on Roku’s streaming player. Roku and YuMe collaborated to create a template for a simple integration of channel partners. Starting today, YuMe will serve dynamic video advertising to the proprietary Roku Internet TV platform. Among the first Roku publishers to use YuMe are DreamTV and Blastro Networks. […]
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05/27/2011
Videontron Digital TV Counts 1.2 Million Subscribers
With the release of its financial results for the first quarter of 2011, Canadian operator Videotron summarized its subscriber totals. Cable TV: Videotron ended the first quarter of 2011 with 1,808,600 customers for its cable TV services, including 1,243,700 households and businesses that access its illico TV digital television. Internet: During the first quarter of […]