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Ericsson rolls with 10 Gigabit GPON system

Ericsson is lloking to provide new muscle to IPTV deployments with the announcement at NXTcomm in Las Vegas from the vendor of a 10 Gigabit passive optical networking system. There has been some Read more...
Tags: bandwidth   Verizon   Nxtcomm   IPTV   GPON  

Spotlight: Two rural telcos tap Comtrend

Two rural telcos have separately chosen Comtrend to deliver ADSL2+ bonded residential gateways to support the rollout of IPTV services. The bonded aspect allows the gateways to support up to 48 Mbps Read more...

Networks ready for HD programming pile-up?

High-definition television always has been viewed as a nice benefit of new TV delivery technologies, but 2008 may prove to be the year HDTV becomes a significant battlefield in the competitive war Read more...
Tags: Verizon   Satellite   bandwidth   IPTV   HDTV   HD  

Verizon: High-tech households driving GPON

Michael Daigle, vice president of network planning at Verizon Communications, sees the multi-user, multi-device home as the major driver for the telco's ongoing deployment of gigabit passive optical Read more...
Tags: Verizon   Telco   bandwidth   HDTV   FiOS   Verizon   VC/M&A  

Mossberg Blesses Web Video, Bashes Broadband Before iPhone Tease

Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg, or "Uncle Walt" to his fans, last week declared that the web is becoming a video medium. However, Read more...

Comcast and BitTorrent make nice

Comcast and BitTorrent Inc. last week agreed to bury the hatchet and work together to try and make BitTorrent software run more smoothly on Comcast's network. The deal ends a contentious battle Read more...
Tags: FCC   throttling   bandwidth   Comcast  

Stage6 video portal shuts down

DivX is shuttering its Stage6 video sharing portal, admitting it was chewing resources it does not have. DivX launched the service to showcase its media player technology. It attracted nearly a Read more...

ALSO NOTED: YouTube take down by Pakistan; Tellabs simple bandwidth fix; and much more...

> YouTube taken down by Pakistan Article > Tellabs introduces a simpler way to boost Read more...
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Samsung announces 82 " 3D ultra-high definition TV

Samsung has released its vision for next generation TV, a bandwidth-hogging, 3D-immersive digital cinema. Eighty-two inches big and using four times the pixels of HDTV, the ultra-high definition set Read more...