by Pivot
Tag: Fiber Broadband
Gigabit Challenge Highlights Potential Google Fiber Impact
The Gigabit Challenge is an app development contest, sponsored by Kansas City based Think Big Partners, an early stage business and entrepreneur incubator. The contest invites app developers and entrepreneurs to compete for $200K in…
Google Fiber Beta Test Yields 151 Mbps Down, 92 Mbps Up
Google is busily preparing to build a FTTP network in Kansas City, but they are further along with their beta test of the technology on the campus of Stanford University in California. It’s a much…
Southwest Minnesota Broadband Turns to Calix for Stimulus Project
PETALUMA, CA—March 30, 2011—Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Broadband Stimulus award winner Southwest Minnesota Broadband Services (SMBS) has selected the EXA Powered Calix E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) and 700GE family of…
Rural Cable Provider, Troy Cablevision, Turns to Hitachi for FTTP
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. (HCTA) today announced that the Hitachi Node+Zero Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG) product is being used by Troy Cablevision, Inc. (Troy Cable) to provide Fiber to the Premises (FTTP)…
Verizon Launches SMB FiOS Packages
Verizon announced the launch of symmetrical 15 Mbs and 20 Mbps broadband services, powered by their FiOS network, and targeting the SMB sector. It’s no coincidence that Verizon is flexing its FiOS muscle on the…