Comcast reports its Xfinity Watchathon Week, which happened April 3-9 this year, had subscribers bingeing more than 77 million hours of content – up 42 percent from the 54 million hours consumed in 2013 when the promo first launched. Watchathon gives customers a free pass during the week to thousands of episodes on-demand including programming […]
Comcast Business Expands Fiber Network in Denver
Comcast Business announced a $3.5 million fiber network expansion across Denver’s I-70 and Havana Street area. The network is capable of delivering up to 10 Gbps, and the expansion will enable more than 750 businesses across 363 buildings to access the high speeds. “Network connectivity is vital for businesses in any vertical, and in the […]
Cable ONE Completes Acquisition of NewWave Communications
Cable One announced the completion of its acquisition of NewWave Communications, a cable operator providing high-speed data, video, and voice services to residential and business customers throughout non-urban areas of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas. The all-cash $735 million acquisition was originally announced back in January. The combination of Cable ONE and […]
MoCA: WiFi Mesh in the Home Still Requires a Wire
WiFi mesh has garnered a fair amount of attention lately as an alternative for whole-home coverage. On that front, the Multimedia Over Coax Alliance revealed results this week from recently concluded field tests that compared three different WiFi mesh-based products in a home networking environment vs. a WiFi network that used MoCA as the backhaul. […]
MoCA: WiFi Mesh in the Home Still Requires a Wire
WiFi mesh has garnered a fair amount of attention lately as an alternative for whole-home coverage. On that front, the Multimedia Over Coax Alliance revealed results this week from recently concluded field tests that compared three different WiFi mesh-based products in a home networking environment vs. a WiFi network that used MoCA as the backhaul. […]
MoCA: WiFi Mesh in the Home Still Requires a Wire
WiFi mesh has garnered a fair amount of attention lately as an alternative for whole-home coverage. On that front, the Multimedia Over Coax Alliance revealed results this week from recently concluded field tests that compared three different WiFi mesh-based products in a home networking environment vs. a WiFi network that used MoCA as the backhaul. […]
Energy 2020 Case Study Shows How Data Center Cooling Techniques Can Apply to Cable Headends
Among the technology presentations on offer this week at an Energy 2020 plenary session hosted by SCTE/ISBE is a case study addressing how lessons learned around cooling power consumption in data centers could apply to headends. The Energy 2020 meeting and plenary is set for April 18-19 at Comcast’s Chesterbrook, Pa., facility. David Kozischek, manager, […]
SCTE/ISBE, NCTC Partner for Training Options
On Tuesday, SCTE/ISBE and the National Cable Television Cooperative announced a partnership that will provide NCTC members with discounted prices for all SCTE/ISBE online training courses, including those that are included in the CORTEX Expert Development System. NCTC and SCTE/ISBE also report they will mutually support promotional opportunities designed to highlight the availability and benefits […]
Eastern Europe Set to See Overall Pay TV Subscriber Losses
Economic woes in Eastern Europe are going to lead to significant pay TV subscriber losses in the next few years, according to a forecast just released by Digital TV Research. With job prospects on the wane in that region, the research firm predicts many people will emigrate and look for work in other parts of […]
Cable ONE Expands Gigabit Service to Two More Markets in Mississippi
Cable ONE announced two more markets where it will offer its GigaONE gigabit services: Brookhaven and McComb, which are both in Mississippi. The operator points out that the speed is 40 times faster than the average speed currently offered across the United States, and is now available to the majority of Cable ONE customers. The […]