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11/21/2012
Ball Game: News Corp Says Yes to Yankees Net
As expected, News Corp sealed the deal for a 49% equity stake in YES Net , which extended its TV rights with the Yankees through '42. It's a bit of a homecoming for YES top execs, with pres/CEO Tracy
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11/20/2012
Deals Of The Day 11/20/12
Cisco is committing $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives to buy the entire business and operations of San Francisco-based cloud networker Meraki; the deal should close in the second quarter of Cisco’s FY2013. The global Meraki offers midmarket customers on-premise networking solutions that can be centrally managed from the cloud, expanding Cisco’s network offerings […]
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11/20/2012
The Need For Speed 11/20/12
Bristol Tennessee Essential Services (BTES) has partnered with Alcatel-Lucent to offer 1-gigabit broadband service to all of its 33,000 residential and business electric customers. "Bristol now has one of the fastest, totally built out networks in the United States. To give an example of how fast, you can download about two hours of video or […]
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11/20/2012
New Stuff 11/20/12
The Routing Efficiency Dashboard is the latest addition to Sandvine’s Network Analytics library, providing a detailed look into routing and transit links and interconnect relationships that affect opex on fixed and mobile networks. Operators also can measure the quality of links based on their ability to carry rich media, thus allowing them to make routing […]
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11/20/2012
People Watch 11/20/12
Lauren Ventura is the new vice president/Channels at Harmonic, bringing more than 20 years of experience driving new business, building channel business programs and executing overall marketing plans for global companies to the table. In addition, Lawrence R. Kaplan, founding CEO of Omneon, is stepping down from day-to-day operations but will continue as an advisor […]
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11/20/2012
Survey Sez 11/20/12
Mobile-data roaming revenues will grow by 21 percent per year between 2012 and 2017, topping $35 billion in 2017 and driven by an increasing number of active data roamers using data services while abroad. Juniper Research notes that data roaming provides operators with the opportunity to convert “non-data” roamers to active data roamers by introducing […]