The state of California has agreed to hold off enforcing its state net neutrality law and the Department of Justice and broadband industry groups that sued the state to block the legislation will also press pause on their case pending an outcome to current challenges against the FCC’s order rolling back Title II regulations. […]
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Buckeye Broadband Taps Harmonic’s CableOS to Launch Gigabit Internet Service
Buckeye Broadband, a cable provider in Northwest Ohio, is leveraging Harmonic’s virtualized cable access product to deploy a DOCSIS 3.1-powered broadband offering with speeds of up to 1 Gbps. Harmonic says its CableOS offering is the industry’s first software-based Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) and improves gigabit service scalability while bringing down delivery costs, in […]
Broadband Industry Groups Sue to Block Vermont’s Net Neutrality Law
Industry trade groups representing broadband providers filed a joint lawsuit on Thursday that seeks to nullify a Vermont law requiring internet companies who obtain state contracts to abide by net neutrality rules. The American Cable Association, CTIA, USTelecom, and NCTA are challenging the State of Vermont’s Internet Bill, passed earlier this year, and an executive […]
Comcast’s Gigabit Internet Service Now Covers 58M Homes
Comcast on Thursday announced its gigabit internet service is now available across most of the cable giant’s footprint, in what the operator says represents the fastest deployment of gigabit speeds to the most homes nationwide. Comcast reached its goal, which a company executive first announced more than three years ago, to deploy DOCSIS 3.1 technology […]
Frontier Lights Up Gigabit Service in Fiber Markets, Upgrades Speed Tiers
Frontier Communications has launched gigabit internet services in its FiOS and Vantage Fiber markets, while adding new speed across portions of its footprint. The company says it’s boosting speeds, now offering 200 Mbps symmetrical service and has added speed tiers of 300 Mbps symmetrical service that previously weren’t available in Indiana, Oregon and Washington. “Speed […]
NI Announces New FlexRIO Transceiver for Prototyping and Testing High Bandwidth Radar Systems
NI, the provider of a software-defined platform that helps accelerate the development and performance of automated test and automated measurement systems, today announced the FPGA-enabled PXIe-5785 FlexRIO transceiver, which aims to shorten the design cycle for advanced radar applications in aerospace and defense. Advances in the use of the electromagnetic spectrum continue to drive military electronics to stay […]
New California Internet Neutrality Law Sparks US Lawsuit
California Gov. Jerry Brown has approved the nation’s strongest net neutrality law, prompting an immediate lawsuit by the Trump administration and opening the next phase in the battle over regulating the internet. Advocates of net neutrality hope California’s law, which Brown signed Sunday to stop internet providers from favoring certain content or websites, will push […]
Audit: Kentucky Was Warned About Broadband Contract
In October 2015, state officials in Kentucky signed a contract to install 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) of fiber optic cable to bring high-speed internet access to all 120 counties. Today, the project is at least four years behind schedule because of persistent delays that have cost taxpayers a projected $96 million. But a new report […]
Official: Kentucky Missed Chance to End Broadband Deal
Kentucky’s procurement chief said it would have cost taxpayers about $9 million in 2015 to back out of a statewide broadband network. But he said a misunderstanding of the rules governing federal education money helped convince state officials to OK the deal that has since cost taxpayers at least $88 million in delays. Finance and […]
Verizon Digital Media’s Smartplay with Time Control
At IBC 2018, Verizon Digital Media Services plans to showcase its Smartplay technology, including the new Time Control Feature. The technology delivers content 40 percent closer to real time and can encode up to 60 frames per second. It also offers catch-up TV services, and allows broadcasters to time shift content across time zones and […]