by Pivot
Tag: DSL
Ovum: 23% Decline in Wireline Broadband Access Equipment Sales
Sales of wireline broadband access equipment slumped 23% year over year to $5.42 billion in 2013, says research firm Ovum. DSL equipment revenues fell 28% as VDSL equipment sales were not enough to offset a…
Calix Expands E-Series VDSL2 Portfolio With Three New Solutions
Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced the addition of the E5-48 and E5-48C Ethernet Service Access Nodes (ESANs) and the new VDSL2-48D line card for the E7-2 modular Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) to the…
New Hybrid DSL-4G LTE Gateway Highlights Broadband Convergence
As the broadband carrier ecosystem continues on its mission to bring faster and more robust broadband services to the market, there is an ongoing debate regarding wireline versus wireless. Many wireline proponents say nothing but…
Behind AT&T’s U-verse Speed Increase
AT&T today increased the speed available to U-verse customers in 40 markets to 45 Mbps downstream and 6 Mbps upstream. Previously the highest speed for most customers was 24 Mbps. Included in the upgrade were…
ABI: 19% of Global Broadband Subscriptions are Fiber-Based
Fixed broadband subscriptions continue on a “healthy” upward trajectory in 2013, with fiber optic broadband subscriptions slated to increase and account for 19% of the global market by year-end, up from 16% in 2012, according…
DSL Continues to Make Incremental Bandwidth Gains
Developers continue to make progress on boosting the bandwidth that can be supported by traditional copper telephone wiring, as a pair of recent component maker announcements illustrate. Lantiq announced it had begun volume shipments of…
AT&T is Crushing Cable: Is Super Fast Broadband Really Necessary?
There has been much speculation regarding the demand for super fast broadband speeds, which for the sake of this post, I define as 30 Mbps and above. Many industry observers say broadband carriers must upgrade…
OECD: U.S. Ranks in Middle of Global Broadband Pack
Has U.S. broadband subscriber growth stalled? The U.S. ranked near the middle of 34 developed and developing nations measured by the number of wired broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, according to new research from the…
ABI: Sales of DOCSIS 3.0 Devices Up 65%
Broadband consumer premises electronic (CPE) device shipments – including modems, wired routers and gateways – will continue to increase, reaching 149.4 million units in 2013 from 144.9 million in 2012, a 3.1% year-over-year gain, according…
DSL May Be Slower, But is it Better?
Back in 2011, the FCC began their Measuring Broadband America project, which aimed to study actual broadband performance in the U.S. They contracted with SamKnows, a British firm, to measure broadband speeds and performance across…
Vendor Plugfest Tests G.vector to Boost DSL Rates
With telecompetitors looking to further leverage their capital investments in DSL technology, 14 companies gathered in Durham, New Hampshire the week of June 17 to participate in wide-scale interoperability testing of ITU-T VDSL2 G.vector equipment.…
Copper Based Broadband Decline is Accelerating, Sort Of
While still the dominant method for broadband access across the world, the decline in copper based broadband connections is accelerating, according to a recent Point Topic report. That’s not surprising news, especially here in the…