The programming deals for Verizon ‘s forthcoming FiOS TV service are starting to come fast and furious. This time, in a deal with Showtime Networks, Verizon has secured carriage of 11 Showtime channels, including The Movie Channel and Flix, plus access to high-definition feeds and video-on-demand fare (150 hours, 25 percent of which is to […]
Verizon clicks on Movielink
Verizon has launched a co-branded movie downloading service in partnership with the studio-backed Movielink service. Verizon will integrate Movielink with its consumer DSL and fiber-fed FiOS high-speed data service. Verizon hopes to use Movielink and special offers delivered through the partnership to differentiate the telco’s broadband services. How much differentiation the partnership will achieve is […]
Verizon expands Motorola’s responsibility
Verizon has added a few more items to Motorola Inc. ‘s to-do list for the telco’s ambitious rollout of fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) technology. Under a five-year deal, Motorola will supply electronics for Verizon central offices, including the vendor’s line of optical line terminals and video-optimized optical amplifiers. Motorola entered the FTTP sector for good in March […]
‘Packet bonding’ to be part of DOCSIS 3.0 and the modular CMTS
CableLabs has selected “packet bonding” over a rival technique for the emerging DOCSIS 3.0 specification and modular-cable modem termination system (M-CMTS) architecture. News of the packet bonding selection first appeared last week in Cable Digital News. A CableLabs official confirmed that a selection had been made, but declined to be more specific. A range of […]
Verizon adds Starz to programming constellation
Verizon continues to get its programming stars aligned for FiOS TV, the telco’s forthcoming fiber-fed video service. The latest is a multi-year carriage deal with Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG). The agreement gives Verizon access to east and west coast feeds of all 13 SEG movie channels, as well as SEG’s HDTV and video-on-demand services, […]
Tropic and Broadbus make a match
Tropic Networks and Broadbus Technologies have completed a video-on-demand technology integration that matched Tropic’s TRX-24000 DWDM transport platform with Broadbus’ B-1 video server. The test, conducted at a Broadbus laboratory, involved the initiating, playing, pausing, forwarding, rewinding and termination of VOD sessions. Tropic said the test showed off its ability to transmit “thousands” of video […]
Qwest reveals first FTTH market
Qwest Communications has selected a master planned community near Denver as the site of the telco’s first deployment of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology. The first Qwest community to add fiber-fed services to its diet will be RidgeGate, a development south of Denver in the city of Lone Tree that is expected to grow to about 12,000 […]
ARRIS adds more fiber gear to its diet
ARRIS will hawk fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) gear after striking a reseller and technology development deal with Amedia Networks Inc. Under the deal, ARRIS will market Amedia’s line of “QoStream” Ethernet optical access network gear to operators worldwide. Amedia came on the scene last year with an “active” FTTP platform capable of delivering up to 100 Mbps […]
S-A dials for dollars
Scientific-Atlanta: It’s not just for cable anymore. The Atlanta-based broadband vendor has scored a $195 million deal to supply IP video gear to SBC Communications in support of the telco’s far-reaching “Project Lightspeed” fiber initiative. Under the multi-year agreement, S-A will supply equipment — including encoders, satellite dishes, and video routers — for an IP […]
Verizon weaves more fiber
The next stop on Verizon ‘s fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) tour is the Massachusetts city of Lynn and the towns of Nahant and Swampscott. The additions extend the total number of communities in eastern Massachusetts targeted by Verizon for FTTP to 28. The others are Andover, Bedford, Belmont, Boxford, Burlington, Canton, Dedham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Lakeville, Lexington, Lincoln, […]