Broadband (xDSL, DOCSIS, WiMax, FTTH, …) News

SK Broadband Selects Harmonic for the World's Largest Commercial Launch of Cable IPTV to Date
May 27, 2009 – Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ:HLIT) has announced that SK Broadband (KOSDAQ:033630) has deployed Harmonic's Direct-2-Edge (D2E) solution, for the world's largest commercial launch of cable IPTV to date, across its cable, xDSL, and FTTx access networks.
News categories: Harmonic Inc, SK Broadband, ANGA COM, Cable TV, Content Distribution, DOCSIS, Fibre, IPTV, Korea

Cable Modem Services Drive Growth for Cable TV Operators
May 19, 2009 – There are currently 124 million digital cable TV subscriber households around the world, reports In-Stat in its latest cable TV market research. Strong growth in cable modem services is complementing cable pay TV services.
News categories: In-Stat, Broadband, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Market Research, Subscribers

Latens Demonstrates Pay-TV Cable Delivery at ANGA
May 14, 2009 – As the cable industry gears up to maximise the benefits of digital television, Latens is showcasing the most secure, future-proof and cost-effective systems on the market at the ANGA show in Cologne from May 26-28 (stand B44).
News categories: Latens, ANGA COM, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, DOCSIS, IPTV, Middleware

Cisco Advances the Connected Life at Home at ANGA Cable 2009: Helping Service Providers Become Experience Providers
May 13, 2009 – At ANGA Cable 2009, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is demonstrating new technologies and solutions that help enable Internet Protocol (IP) networks to become the intelligent platform for a new generation of video and rich-media applications and services.
News categories: Cisco Systems, ANGA COM, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Content Distribution, DOCSIS, Fibre, IPTV, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

37% of France's ADSL subscribers have TV-over-DSL
May 4, 2009 – France's telecoms authority, ARCEP, has published its latest market survey up to the end of the fourth quarter 2008. At the end of the period, 37% of ADSL subscribers, or 6.2 million, were also subscribing to TV-over-DSL.
News categories: ARCEP, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Subscribers

STMicroelectronics Reports 2009 First Quarter Financial Results
Apr 29, 2009 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has reported financial results for the 2009 first quarter ended March 28, 2009. Automotive/Consumer/Computer/Telecom Infrastructure Product Groups net revenue declined 40% year-over-year to $627 million.
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Cable TV, DOCSIS, DVR, Results, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Celeno Enables Cable HD IPTV Wireless Distribution throughout the Home
Apr 28, 2009 – Celeno Communications has announced that its CL1300 Wi-Fi chip is now interoperable with TI's (NYSE: TXN) Puma 5 family of DOCSIS 3.0® products. The joint technology enables MSOs to provide whole-home wireless HD home networking.
News categories: Celeno, Texas Instruments, Cable Modem, DOCSIS, Gateway, Semiconductor, Smart Home

KPN Q1 results 2009
Apr 28, 2009 – KPN Group (Amsterdam:KPN) has release its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. KPN TV (Digitenne DTT and IPTV) customers were up 60 thousand in the quarter to give a total of 835 thousand at end-March.
News categories: KPN, Fibre, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Verizon Reports Results for 1Q 2009
Apr 27, 2009 – Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) has reported its results for the first quarter 2009. Verizon added 299,000 net new FiOS TV customers to give a total of 2.2 million, an increase of 83.8 percent compared with the first quarter 2008.
News categories: Verizon, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA