Broadband OSS provider Core Networks has released CoreMeter, which allows cable MSOs to monitor and evaluate the performance of the “last mile” of their hybrid fiber/coaxial networks. Information gathered with CoreMeter allows network personnel to isolate, predict and respond to network noise, attenuation and capacity impairments that cause service interruptions on the HFC network. Data […]
Core releases "last-mile" monitoring software
Broadband OSS provider Core Networks has released CoreMeter, which allows cable MSOs to monitor and evaluate the performance of the “last mile” of their hybrid fiber/coaxial networks. Information gathered with CoreMeter allows network personnel to isolate, predict and respond to network noise, attenuation and capacity impairments that cause service interruptions on the HFC network. Data […]
Manhattan hospital taps Lightpath for voice, data and Internet
Lightpath, the business telecom services arm of Cablevision Systems Corp., has added another hospital facility to its lengthy list of customers. Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan has chosen Lightpath to be its primary provider of voice, data and Internet services. Lenox Hill becomes the first hospital in Manhattan to which Lightpath is providing advanced telecommunications […]
CommScope posts quarterly loss
Cable maker CommScope Inc. lost $51.4 million, or 87 cents per share, for the second quarter of 2003 on sales of $141.4 million. The net loss included after-tax impairment charges of 34 cents per share and after-tax equity in losses of OFS BrightWave, LLC of 57 cents per share related to CommScope’s minority ownership interest […]
Ripley expands product line via acquisition
Wire and prep tool manufacturer Ripley Company has acquired the proprietary products and intellectual assets of Amherst FiberOptics from Communication Dynamics Inc., the parent company of TVC Communications. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Beginning immediately, Ripley Company will be adding the fiber optic tools acquired in the acquisition to its Miller product […]
ABS hits milestone in Pa.
Adelphia Business Solutions (ABS) and its consortium of 13 Pennsylvania-based companies are now 90 percent finished constructing the statewide, 5,000-mile fiber optics based Keystone Communications Project in Pennsylvania. The Keystone Project was designed as a statewide fiber network to bring high-bandwidth voice, data, Internet and video networking to state government facilities, including state agencies and […]
LightPointe receives FSO patent
Free-space optics manufacturer LightPointe received a new patent that builds upon an earlier patent it received for all-optical FSO network design, the company reported. LightPointe’s system enables carriers to deploy FSO as a seamless complement to fiber-optic cable in several network applications, including Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing services, metro network extensions, Sonet ring closures, mobile […]
Stepping boldly into the digital future
With two years and $150 million invested in a state-of-the-art facility, Tele-Communications Inc. is finally poised to enter the digital age later this year when its Headend In The Sky (HITS) facility begins beaming digitally compressed video to headends around the country. Instantly, the advent of digitally compressed video channels can transform a run-of-the-mill, 36-channel […]
Finally, here comes the digital video set-top
Although digital television is off to an admittedly slow start, a number of new initiatives are pushing set-top manufacturers and component developers to develop new approaches that will ultimately result in lower-cost units, paving the way for mass deployment. More specifically, as recently as last month there were at least four different requests for proposals […]