Alticast named Nara Won as its new vice president, business development and strategy for the company’s operations throughout the Americas. Most recently he was vice president, business development for at Humax Americas, where he was responsible for the company’s cable industry business activities, including the rollout of STB, gateway, IoT and media hub solutions.
Bright House Networks has again achieved the Cisco Master Service Provider designation and will continue to deliver Cisco Powered Managed MPLS VPN; Cisco Powered Managed Metro Ethernet; Cisco Powered Managed Internet Service; and Cisco Powered Managed IP Trunking. To offer services as Cisco Powered Services, Bright House reportedly needed to complete “a rigorous third-party audit of its services. This audit verifies that services are delivered with enterprise-class reliability, security and support.”
CenturyLink announced the opening of its CenturyLink Development Center in St. Louis. Development teams at the Center focus on automating and developing managed services for business customers. The St. Louis facility becomes the company’s third development center, joining its Seattle-area Cloud Development Center, which opened in October 2014 and the Monroe, La.-based Technology Center of Excellence, which opened in March 2015.
Birch Communications, which is a communications, network, cloud and IT solutions provider for small, mid-sized, enterprise and wholesale businesses, announced the availability of its Service Alert Monitor (SAM), a service management platform that is said to proactively monitor, detect and alert customers to any service (voice, internet and data center) interruption in real-time. More information is available here.
Broadpeak will showcase a range of solutions for operators at the 2016 NAB Show in April in Las Vegas. The company reports that a key demo will be its “CDN in a Box” solution, which is said to simplify the deployment of video streaming services by providing operators with essential capabilities, such as CDN management, video analytics, video streaming servers and origin packager. Broadpeak also is highlighting the solution’s cloud PVR capabilities, as well as showcasing how operators can deliver live 4K content with its nanoCDN technology.
