LITTLE ROCK, AR – Windstream Corporation, a telephone company with about 3 million access lines, will sell the assets of its product distribution subsidiary, Windstream Supply LLC, to Walker and Associates Inc., a distributor...
Read MoreNEW YORK — Online video isn’t just about video clips anymore. Americans are streaming more TV shows and movies than ever before, according to new data from Ipsos MediaCT’s MOTION study. In the past 30 days, 26 percent...
Read MoreREDLANDS, CA — A new software and data package from ESRI will help U.S. broadband service providers and telecommunications companies analyze broadband market opportunities as they prepare to apply for federal broadband...
Read MoreDEERFIELD BEACH, FL – Broadband electronics distributor AMT announced that it has launched a systems integration division, to be headed by  Juan Carlos Marchesini, a leader with more than 25 years of technical and...
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS — Another new product announcement from Clearfield is the FieldSmart Fiber Entrance Cabinet (FEC), which provides an easy transition from inside to outside plant cable. The company calls the cabinet easy to...
Read MoreREDWOOD CITY, Calif. — PON revenues are expected to grow each year through 2013, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group. Worldwide combined sales for DSL, cable and PON access equipment, including both...
Read MoreMINNEAPOLIS — Fiber management vendor Clearfield is expanding its FDP Wall Mount Panel product line. The “PON in a BOX†series now includes 36 and 96-port options, all with support for PON-based applications. Ring-cut...
Read MoreVANCOUVER, British Columbia — Â Bandwidth provision has always been something of a blunt instrument — while the amount of bandwidth subscribers need is variable, they can usually only sign up for a fixed amount....
Read MoreNEW YORK — Despite the global economic slump, the number of households with fiber optic network connections will grow by more than 32 percent worldwide in 2009 and will continue to grow at annual rates close to 30 percent,...
Read MoreSEOUL – While WDM-PON — fiber to the premises based on wavelength division multiplexing — is often called the “end game” for broadband, one obstacle to its adoption is the lack of interoperable...
Read MoreWASHINGTON, DC – Consumers valued their home broadband Internet access at $32 billion in 2008, according to new research by three prominent economists. Their study shows Americans now consider broadband Internet access a...
Read MoreNASHVILLEÂ — Research firm Telecom Pragmatics believes that fiber to the home will substantially dwarf DSL, wireless, and other solutions when it comes to raking in broadband funding from the American Recovery and...
Read MoreMELBOURNE – In countries such as Korea and Japan, the rapid displacement of ADSL by fiber-to-the-home and fiber-to-the-building technologies is nothing new. According to research firm Ovum, this network evolution is now...
Read MoreMotorola has offloaded its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) product family to Communications Test Design Inc. (CTDI), effective July 2, in order to focus on fiber to the premises. Beginning immediately, CTDI will provide all sales,...
Read MoreThe demand for high-bandwidth applications will jump in the next few years as the number of broadband households climbs to 640 million by 2013, according to international research firm Parks Associates. Service providers will...
Read MorePETALUMA, CA — Broadband equipment supplier Calix, whose PON solutions have been deployed by nearly 400 customers, has rounded out its portfolio by adding a residential active Ethernet fiber-to-the-home platform, the...
Read MoreNew Haven, CT – Wireless connectivity provider Spot On Networks announced that users with mobile phones or Smartphones can now sign on to its Wi-Fi networks in an easy-to-use format, customized for the screen of each mobile...
Read MoreWashington, DC – Fiber-to-the-home customers are paying less for better service than cable and DSL subscribers, and they have an easier time selling their homes — no wonder they’re happier with their providers....
Read MoreWASHINGTON, DC – Sixty-three percent of adult Americans now have broadband Internet connections at home, up 15 percent from a year earlier, according to an April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet &...
Read MoreCampbell, CA – GPON sales worldwide rose 12 percent in 1Q09, though sales of other types of passive optical network equipment lagged behind 4Q08, according to communications market research firm Infonetics...
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