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05/05/2009
Ciena's 100G Stimulates Finance
The financial sector may be shrinking, but advanced optics are accelerating the links between some of that industry’s data centers, as today’s 100 Gbps news from Ciena and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext indicates. In a project that will reach testing phase this summer and go live in 2010, Ciena is providing 50 […]
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05/04/2009
OTT App a Big Hit at Virgin Media
In England, the hottest thing in television is the BBC iPlayer, which allows consumers to watch vast amounts of previously-aired BBC content on their PCs or on cable TV. British Broadcasting Corp. programming is funded by a tax on U.K. citizens and then made available for free on broadcast TV. In 2007, the BBC launched […]
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05/04/2009
Q&A with Virgin Media's Kevin Baughan
Kevin Baughan, director of technical strategy at Virgin Media, answered some questions from Communications Technology about the broadband business in the United Kingdom. What does the competitive landscape look like for Virgin Media in the UK? We’re seeing increasing consumer demand for bandwidth, driven by the success of BBC iPlayer, iTunes, social networking sites such […]
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05/01/2009
Broadband: Signal Leakage in an All-Digital Network: The Continuing Story
Judging from the feedback to my February column on leakage issues in all-digital networks, this is a topic that’s clearly quite important to the industry. One point made by many of those who shared their comments had to do with keeping ingress under control, given what is believed to be the reduced likelihood that a […]
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04/30/2009
Flash Set-Tops Will Require Internet Connection
Comcast, Broadcom and Netflix, among others, have announced support for Adobe Systems’ plans to incorporate Flash into digital home devices to support bi-directional streaming of Internet video. The Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home will be incorporated on chips that go into TV sets, set-top boxes and game consoles to deliver high definition (HD) […]
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04/29/2009
Satellite Business Flying High
Right now is a good time to be in the satellite business. The profusion of HD and other advanced services, both cable and direct-to-home, is driving marked increases in the business of satellite operators, content aggregators, DBS outfits, and even satellite-based high-speed Internet services. Add to that the impending broadband stimulus package’s goal of pushing […]