Cablevision Systems Corp.’s commercial services operation, Optimum Lightpath, said more than 15 healthcare providers in the tri-state area have recently signed up for its Metro Ethernet service. Cablevision quoted Insight Research reports that say the U.S. healthcare telecommunications services market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 5.4 percent, from $6.3 billion […]
Cedar Point dials up exclusive MetroCast deployment
MetroCast Cablevision will use Cedar Point equipment exclusively for its voice-over-IP switching. MetroCast serves about 145,000 subscribers in over 135 communities in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut and Maine. It will deploy Cedar Point’s Safari C³ Multimedia Switching System across its footprint. The two companies, which said they have been working together for five years, said […]
Ericsson buys GPON position with purchase of Entrisphere
Angling for a chunk of the North American IPTV market, Ericsson has purchased PON specialist Entrisphere, a young company whose staff is dotted with people who came from one corner or another of the old Bell system. Neither company revealed a price, but analysts from Sweden have been quoted speculating that the deal might fetch anywhere […]
Muni wireless market may hit $10B by 2011
The North American market for muni wireless could reach a value of $10 billion by 2011, according to ON World. Public Internet access may be the most widely discussed element of the municipal wireless broadband market, but the real meat in muni wireless is in new services opportunities such as mobile VoIP, public safety, transportation and […]
Brightcove to handle TV Guide Broadband syndication
TV Guide Broadband has found another outlet for its video content. Brightcove will publish and manage online video for syndication to Web site affiliates across the Internet. “Working with Brightcove allows us to syndicate our entertainment content to thousands of sites across the Web, while enabling us to control the look, feel and presentation of TV […]
Charter expects rise in Q4 revenue; begins refinancing
Charter Communications intends to refinance and expand its existing credit. Pending that, the company has released only preliminary results from its fourth quarter. Charter expects revenues for the fourth quarter of 2006 of $1.4 billion, an increase of approximately 11.7 percent compared to the same period in 2005. Earnings are anticipated to be $503 million, an increase […]
Verizon ads to attack cable VoIP
Verizon is readying a marketing attack against cable VoIP and Internet-based VoIP. Verizon said that when it informs consumers about “the astounding reliability of Verizon’s custom-built network,” the number who say they might subscribe to cable or Internet VoIP drops. In other words, Verizon believes the success Verizon Wireless is having with its commercials that play […]
Tilgin signs three North American distributors
Trying to get a foothold in a new continent, Tilgin signed three new distribution agreements with CSSA, NetDigital and Nexicom to sell and distribute Tilgin IP residential gateway and IPTV set-tops in North America. CSSA (Communications Supply Services Association), a strategic alliance of independent telephone companies spread across 44 western states, will market Tilgin IPTV set-top […]
Samsung, Sprint prepping Mobile WiMAX for D.C., Baltimore
Sprint Nextel has decided Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Md. will be the first two markets in which it will work with Samsung Electronics to develop a Mobile WiMAX wireless broadband network. The two companies agreed last August to collaborate on developing Sprint Nextel’s 4G wireless broadband initiative, which will use the Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e TDD […]
Volpi resigns; Cisco realigns
Mike Volpi is stepping down as the head of the Cisco Routing and Service Provider Technology Group, effective immediately. Cisco simultaneously announced a reorganization that includes the operations Volpi had controlled. Volpi has not yet decided what his next steps will be, although he was quoted as saying he’s looking to do something different from […]