Cable industry network upgrades have a lot of moving parts. Accordingly, Comcast has been announcing its network upgrades in bits and pieces. The latest news comes in a blog post today touting a breakthrough the company says it made in…
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Comcast DOCSIS 4.0 Test Puts Fiber Broadband Competitors on Notice
Comcast said today that it completed a lab test of a DOCSIS 4.0 full duplex system on a chip (SOC) that will be a critical component of multi-gigabit services to be deployed in the future. In an interview with Telecompetitor,…
Windstream Launches 300 Mbps Broadband Using HFC in Georgia Network Upgrade
Windstream has upgraded the broadband speeds it can provide over its cable TV infrastructure in northern Georgia. The company says that about 71,000 subscribers now have access to data speeds as high as 300 Mbps on its Kinetic platform. Windstream…
Bucking the Big Guys, Ohio Cable Company MCTV Reaches Fiber-Based PON Milestone
Even though cable companies offer the fastest broadband speeds in many markets today, some are beginning to make network upgrades to increase speeds further or to prepare themselves for that eventuality. And while most large cable MSOs, in general, are…
Broadband Forum: Citing Global Fixed Broadband Statistics, Fiber Now Underlies 77% of All Connections
Fiber, copper and cable networks supported 77% of fixed subscribers worldwide at the end of last year, according to global fixed broadband statistics compiled by Point Topic. The new research from the company found that more than half of people…
Report: U.S. Business Fiber Availability Increases to 54.8%
Fiber availability for large- and mid-sized commercial buildings jumped to 54.8 percent in the U.S. in 2017, according to a new report about business fiber availability from Vertical Systems Group As a result of this growth, the U.S. Fiber Gap…
Adtran Buys Sumitomo North America EPON Business, Aims to Dramatically Expand Cable MSO Business
Adtran will gain considerable clout with cable companies as a result of its purchase of the North America EPON business of Sumitomo Electric Industries. Adtran already has EPON technology, but Japan-based Sumitomo has a dominant market share position in the…
WOW Lights Up Gigabit Broadband in 7 States, Leverages Deep Fiber Approach
Competitive broadband and video provider WOW announced yesterday that it had launched gigabit service in several markets nationwide. To support the WOW gigabit service, the company brought fiber to a neighborhood node and will use existing coax from that point…
Atlantic Broadband MetroCast Acquisition: $1.4 Billion Deal Gains Rest of MetroCast
As cable companies continue to snatch market share from telcos offering slower broadband speeds, the cable industry has been undergoing a period of intense consolidation, as news today about an Atlantic Broadband MetroCast acquisition illustrates. Atlantic Broadband owner Cogeco Communications…
Report: Gigabit Broadband Availability Reaches Over 200M Globally, 56 Million in the U.S.
Just shy of 220 million people worldwide have gigabit broadband availability, according to the latest Gigabit Monitor from test and measurement vendor Viavi. That’s roughly 3 percent of the world population. Seventeen percent of the population – 56.4 million people…
Despite Appeals Court Decision, Municipal Gigabit Momentum Continues
News this week of five new municipal gigabit networks is a reminder that the recent municipal appeals court decision will have little or no impact in some states or for certain municipal network operators. A recent decision by the Sixth…
Report: North America Dominates Global Gigabit Deployments
A new visual online database of global gigabit deployments illustrates just how fast the number of gigabit Internet initiatives in the U.S. and worldwide has grown in recent years. A new Global Gigabit Monitor launched today reveals that more than…
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