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10/22/2012
New Stuff 10/22/12
The Broadband Forum launched its BBF.069 CPE Certification Program, developed to verify if devices are TR-069 compliant (note: TR-069, also known as CPE WAN Management Protocol, is the global remote management standard used to provision and manage the connected home)…OSS provider Active Broadband Networks extended the capabilities of its Dynamic Broadband Service Manager (DBSM) to […]
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10/22/2012
Global Connections 10/22/12
The Municipality of Nama Khoi in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa installed Alvarion’s BreezeNET B solution to connect six remote municipality offices, and to deliver critical data and transactional activity in real time and to create an infrastructure that will support additional services while saving operating costs. Residents in that area now are […]
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10/22/2012
Survey Sez 10/22/12
Nearly 20 percent of online consumers consider online video to be a replacement for pay TV, says ABI Research, thus “representing significant risk to the traditional TV operator business of as much as $16.8 billion in the United States.” With the domestic pay-TV household penetration set to decline approximately 0.5 percent per year through 2017, […]
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10/22/2012
Feds Fail To Hit Self-Designated IPv6 Deadline
Fewer than 20 percent of U.S. government agencies managed to meet a Sept. 30 deadline that had been set for them to activate IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) on all of their outward-facing servers. With the availability of names on the Internet rapidly running out, IPv6 is supposed to represent the salvation of the Web. […]
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10/19/2012
The Hows And Whys Of Personalizing TV Recommendations And Navigation
Intelligent recommendations are widely recognized as a key component in strengthening the relationship with television viewers, across set-top boxes and second screens. The question is: How and when do you integrate recommendations into the consumer offering to maximize the business impact? >> It’s not an all-or-nothing proposition Recommendations should be able to evolve with the […]
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10/19/2012
Gateways Mature, Provide Seamless Home-Networking Interfaces
The long-term migration of cable networks to an all-IP infrastructure is having a profound impact on the gateway. Traditionally, an IP data-and-voice device, the gateway is maturing into a robust, integrated unit that will connect every cable service to every device in the home reliably. Vendors are at the heart of this transformation, and Communications […]