Wireless companies providing cable. Cable companies jumping into wireless. Oh my! These days it sometimes feels like the cable and wireless industries are coming together at the speed of light (fiber optics, get it?!). Tomorrow on the Innovation Stage in the Innovation Theater during SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo, Wireless Live!, brought to you by Wireless Week […]
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CED’s Broadband 50
Before we Start Over with a New Year, here’s a Look Back at 2012 through the prism of CED’s Broadband 50, which is now 12 years old. We have scoured the cable world to come up with the people, stories and trends that were the most meaningful. As usual, we have also enlisted the anonymous […]
Upfront – January 2013
LRG: Multichannel video industry essentially flat in Q3 Leichtman Research Group found that the 13 largest multichannel video providers in the U.S. – representing about 94 percent of the market – lost about 53,500 net additional video subscribers in Q3 2012. Quarterly net multichannel video losses in the third quarter were compared with a net […]
New Products: IBC Edition – October 2012
Harmonic, Nagra join forces for MPEG-DASH multi-screen Nagra and Harmonic are laying the foundation for what they claim will be the world’s first commercial MPEG-DASH over-the-top service. The service is being jointly offered by Spanish infrastructure telecom operator Abertis Telecom and Nagra. The multi-screen hosting service is already in use by Spanish broadcasters for their […]
Upfront – July 2012
Looking back in Anga Europe’s big cable show, Anga, saw 440 exhibitors, 16,000 trade visitors and 1,600 congress delegates, and the show increased its foreign visitors from 43 percent last year to 50 percent this year. “The key topics of smart TV, hybrid networks, video-on-demand and connected home have spurred visitor quality and internationality. The […]
Upfront – June 2012
Study: Americans love them some Wi-Fi A new study of nearly 900 Americans highlights the country’s growing dependence on Wi-Fi connectivity. The study, commissioned by Broadcom, revealed that 60 percent of respondents cannot go a full day without Wi-Fi before seeking a connection. Three in 10 respondents said they would not last an hour without […]
Upfront – March 2012
Latest Industry News and Insights Comcast, Verizon come out punching Some traditional service providers have decided to coexist with overthe-top providers. Comcast and Verizon have decided instead to play hardball with their OTT rivals, notably Netflix, which may be injured but keeps finding new ways to stay in the game. The cable operator’s new streaming […]
CED Video & Product Showcase – December 2011
December 14, 2011 Motorola Hosted Televation™ Delivering live TV to tablets just got easier. Motorola Televation™ let’s you start streaming. Just provision Televation’s CableCard – we’ll do the rest. So say good-bye to time-consuming custom app development. With our customizable Hosted Client App, your brand appears on your subscribers’ tablets. And our solution scales as […]
Expo: Playing Out of Bounds
Operators are starting to think outside of their footprint boxes. At TelcoTV, Verizon said it was considering selling its Home Control broadband service outside of its footprint. Verizon senior vice president of consumer product management Eric Bruno said the company will decide next year if it wants to sell its suite of broadband-based services (home […]