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10/25/2012
Survey Sez 10/25/12
“Steady, albeit slow, growth is in store for the macrocell mobile backhaul equipment market,” notes Michael Howard, principal analyst/co-founder of Infonetics Research. “While Verizon Wireless and AT&T are winding down their first big wave of LTE deployments and their spending is slowing, this is a large market and there’s still room for growth. We’re expecting […]
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10/25/2012
Events 10/25/12
TelcoTV, taking place this week in Las Vegas, will be re-named TelcoVision, starting next year. Notes Carol Wilson, program chairwoman at TelcoVision, "While public focus often centers on the largest telecom players, there are hundreds of medium and small operators who are not only driving innovation and collectively purchasing large volumes of equipment and software, […]
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10/25/2012
Global Connections 10/25/12
The Kudelski Group and Taiwan-based set-top-box innovator ALi Corporation inked a deal under which ALi Corporation acquires Abilis Systems Sàrl from Kudelski. Based in Geneva, Abilis is a fabless semiconductor company providing RF modulators, secure media processors and broadcast-to-IP solutions. Part of the agreement has ALi supporting Kudelski in protecting the pay-TV content across the […]
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10/25/2012
New Stuff 10/25/12
RAD Data Communications will launch its Micro Network Interface Device (MiNID) at Ethernet Expo Americas during the week of Nov. 6. The device plugs into the SFP cage of any manufacturer’s hosting device, transforming it into a Carrier Ethernet demarcation and SLA verification device for remote service monitoring and fault isolation, the company says. The […]
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10/25/2012
Inside The Beltway 10/25/12
In comments filed at the agency Tuesday, the American Cable Association (ACA) called on the Federal Communications Commission to reform its regulatory-fee system by requiring direct broadcast satellite providers (DBS) to pay their fair share and by scaling the fee burden based on an entity’s ability to pay, much like the graduated federal income tax, […]
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10/25/2012
Rural Telecom’s Future: A Widening Broadband Gap
According to new research from the Hudson Institute, not only is the broadband gap between rural and urban communities real, it will continue to grow. If not addressed, this gap will have negative impacts on both the national economy and rural communities. Hanns Kuttner, a visiting fellow with the Hudson Institute, presented his findings at […]