Broadband World Forum – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – October 21, 2014 – Sckipio Technologies today demonstrated the first commercial G.fast chipset connecting at rates of up to 700Mbps on 16 ports simultaneously at the Broadband World Forum. The demonstration shows…
The worldwide market for broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) will grow at a faster rate in 2014 than it has since 2010, rising 20 percent year-over-year to reach nearly $11 billion, according to the latest market research from IHS Technology….
Moving forward, service providers are likely to become more involved in customers’ home networks, as an announcement from Calix today illustrates. The company introduced a new product dubbed GigaCenter that combines the functionality of an optical network terminal, home gateway…
Moving forward with efforts to develop open standards for smart home ecosystems, industry association the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) on July 28 released a document detailing high-level broadband service provider (BSP) media gateway business requirements. Building on its standards development…
The set-top box (STB) market rebounded strongly in 2013 following three years of essentially flat growth, setting a record-high total in terms of annual revenue, according to the latest market data from IHS Technology. 2013’s performance sets the foundation for…
Indicative of the different ways younger and older Americans use, and think of, their in-home networks and digital information and communications technology (ICT), new market research from The Diffusion Group (TDG) found that “74 percent of Millennials using a home…
Home media gateway shipments are poised to surge higher, according to market research from SNL Kagan’s Multimedia Research Group (MRG). Shipments will exceed 24 million in 2017, up from 7.7 million in 2012, according to MRG’s “Demand for Home Media…
Growing sales of multimedia home gateways (MHGs) will be one of a number of factors fueling growth in the global market for connectable set-top boxes (STBs), according to new market research from IHS. Shipments of STBs will increase to total…
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 ubiquitous FTTH should be the…
The cable industry has long since seized on Wi-Fi to expand their broadband service outside of the home. With no mobile broadband product, Wi-Fi serves as the cable industry’s best wireless play. Comcast is highlighting the cable industry’s reliance on…
Broadband service operators globally are increasingly making use of residential gateways to provide wireless delivery of multiscreen (mobile phones, PCs and tablets) video to viewers in the home. The percentage of operators offering such services through residential gateways will grow…
Global shipments of multimedia home gateways (MHGs) will surge more than 100-times higher from 2011-2015, driven by demand from pay-TV service operators looking “to unify the delivery of different forms of video content to all types of devices in homes,…
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