Ixia has launched two new test platforms for Ethernet-based services. The company’s Optixia XM2, a portable test platform for Ethernet-based network equipment, supports Ixia’s load modules to enable data, signaling, voice, video and application testing for all layers while maintaining backward compatibility with previous Optixia systems and software. The 20-pound, 4.5-inch-high chassis supports up to 32 […]
TWC ups Texas VOD offering
Time Warner Cable has made some 250 movies available, 24 hours a day, at its expanded “on-demand video store” for customers in North Texas. The movies—classics, kids & teen films, action movies and comedies—are priced between 99 cents and $1.95. Expanded VOD is part of a service enhancement effort by TWC since coming to the […]
Radiant launches VL3500 Series
Radiant Communications has released its VL3500 Series of MPEG-4 encoders and decoders. The series handles numerous TV-over-IP apps, including remote broadcasting, enhanced distance learning, corporate training and security monitoring. The VL3500 delivers audio and video via a cable modem or T-1 line with low bandwidth consumption. The series permits multiple streams of video and data […]
Montana telecom picks up Occam’s BLC
Occam Networks Inc.’s Broadband Loop Carrier (BLC) system has been deployed by Fairfield, Mont.-based 3 Rivers Communications. Occam’s system will provide triple play services to the telecom’s customers in 30 Montana communities. 3 Rivers’ deployment of the BLC 6312 and 6252 blades is part of a network upgrade to push fiber to more than 10 […]
Optimum Lightpath cites referral growth
Optimum Lightpath said its Referral Partner Program has borne some fruit in its first year of existence. The number of system integrators, VARs and IT consultants in Optimum Lightpath’s channel program has tripled during that span, the company said. The program was created as a simpler alternative to the sometimes complex and confusing partner agreements […]
Telco Systems dials into rural fiber project
Telco Systems’ EdgeGate CPE 232 and 482 IP media gateways will be used in FTTH projects funded by the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS). The gateways provide broadband Internet access, Internet phone service (VoIP), IPTV access and VOD. The EdgeGate CPE is an Ethernet-based switch with up to four analog voice lines, and up to eight […]
Verizon’s FiOS TV hits Virginia, Massachusetts
Verizon’s fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV service will now be available in Richmond, Va., and Wilmington, Mass. Verizon currently offers the service to more than 20,000 households in Richmond, but the cable franchise will cover approximately 86,000. The company said it will make FiOS TV available to all households in its initial service area within three years. […]
Ciena announces new products, platforms
Ciena Corp. has announced new products and platforms that are part of an effort to enhance its FlexSelect Architecture approach to network transition. The two-year-old FlexSelect Architecture provides a migration to software-defined, service-enabled transport networks. FlexSelect for Ethernet utilizes two new Ethernet-based platforms – the 3000 Ethernet Access Series and the 5000 Packet Services Series […]