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News & Views Most Popular Charter Goes Out-of-Footprint With New Internet Service for Large Businesses By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 1/13/2020 Spectrum Total Connect focused on large, national business customers that require connectivity inside and out of Charter's 41-state footprint. Post a Comment Enghouse Networks Scoops Up Dialogic By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 1/6/2020 Dialogic’s software business expands Enghouse’s already sprawling product portfolio, beefing up its position in the enterprise video and unified communications market. Post a Comment What's Bright, Shiny & Not GEM? By David Strauss, Principal, Broadband Success Partners, 12/30/2019 Cable operators are expanding their business services reach well beyond the traditional government, education and medical sectors to take in verticals like hospitality, agribusiness and even e-gaming. Post a Comment Advertisement Cable's Greatest Hits of 2019 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/24/2019 Here's a curated recap of some of the top tech news and trends for cable, including the '10G' initiative, MSO mobile moves and the industry's troubled and complicated relationship with pay-TV. Post a Comment Exploring Cable's 5G & CBRS Prospects By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 12/23/2019 Light Reading Mobile Editor Dan Jones shares nuggets about 5G and CBRS from our Cable Next-Gen Business Strategies event in New York. Post a Comment How an FTTP Startup Makes SMB Gains in NY By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 12/18/2019 Stealth Communications President and CEO Shrihari Pandit explains how the small FTTP player is wiring commercial districts outside the downtown and midtown Manhattan core for gigabit service. Post a Comment How Cable Will Broaden Its Horizons for Biz Services By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/13/2019 David Strauss of Broadband Success Partners dives into new research that explores which new verticals, such as e-gaming and hospitality, will keep cable's business services engine humming in the years to come. Post a Comment Advertisement Rockbot CEO Aims to Shake Up B2B TV By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/13/2019 Google-backed startup boots up OTT-delivered video service for restaurants, retail shops and other businesses that can complement (or possibly replace) TV services from cable and satellite TV providers. Post a Comment Making Virtual Business Services Real By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 12/11/2019 Charter Spectrum Enterprise's Satya Parimi discusses the cableco's rollout of SD-WAN and virtualized security services, the lessons learned and the challenges still ahead. Post a Comment Comcast's X1 Platform Means Business By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/10/2019 Comcast Business's Christian Nascimento details how this fast-growing unit of the company has adapted Comcast's cloud-based video platform to service the commercial market, including restaurants, hotels and other hospitality venues. Post a Comment Cable Sizes Up New Business Verticals & Vectors By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/6/2019 Light Reading's Alan Breznick and Jeff Baumgartner look at the future and past of cable business services. Post a Comment Access to Spectrum to Determine Starry's Network Deployment Speed By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/5/2019 Starry, which provides fixed wireless broadband over millimeter wave spectrum, is exploring services for business customers to complement its core residential offerings. Post a Comment Comcast Business Testing 'GameOn' App in Philly By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/4/2019 Developed by a startup linked to the Comcast/NBCU Lift Labs incubator, an app running on a verrsion of X1 tailored for bars and restaurants enables patrons to play an interactive game based on making sports predictions. Post a Comment SMBs Still Stoking Business Services Growth for US Cable By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/3/2019 But cable ops are making progress with bigger, enterprise-sized deals and pursuing new types of commercial-class services to open up fresh revenue streams and inflict more pain on the telcos. Post a Comment How Will Cable Business Services Keep Growing? By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/25/2019 With the commercial services engine clearly slowing down, where will cable operators turn for new growth as new technologies like SD-WAN and 5G emerge? Post a Comment Should SD-WAN Providers Let Enterprises Drive? By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/22/2019 Many enterprise customers want to operate their own SD-WAN, but they risk driving into a ditch. Post a Comment Comcast's Victor: SD-WAN Faces 'Baskin-Robbins Problem' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 11/20/2019 Enterprise customers struggle with too many SD-WAN choices, says Robert Victor, Comcast Business SVP of product management. Post a Comment Where Cable Stands With Fiber By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/18/2019 In our latest survey conducted in partnership with SCTE-ISBE, Light Reading examines how cablecos are using fiber now and how they aim to use it in the future. Post a Comment Cable One Racks Up Record Margins Again By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/8/2019 US cableco reports industry-best profit margins again after wrapping up its $526 million acquisition of Fidelity Communications last month. Post a Comment Liberty Global Revenue Slump Deepens By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/7/2019 Europe's largest cable operator suffers continued revenue declines, largely due to steep video subscriber losses in its UK home market and Belgium. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Charter Launches 'Spectrum Total Connect' Monday, January 13, 2020 Mediacom Business Teams With Columbus State University for E-Sports Competitions Wednesday, January 8, 2020 Sparklight Business Rolls 1-Gig Across Footprint Thursday, December 5, 2019 Charter Demos AI-Based System That Predicts Network Demand at MEF19 Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Expands Services in VA & Opens New Office Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Sparklight Enterprise Upgrades WiFi to Business Class Thursday, October 17, 2019 Comcast Business Reaches Into Canada Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Stealth Offers Pop-Up Fiber Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Trash Pandas Minor League Baseball Team Taps WOW for Stadium Services Thursday, September 19, 2019 RDX Completes Purchase of Charter's Navisite Unit Monday, September 9, 2019 Charter Sells Navisite to RDX Monday, August 26, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Gains Franchise in Virginia County Thursday, August 1, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now FireEye Finds Mitigation of CVE-2019-19781 Comes With a Price Larry Loeb, Author, 1/20/2020 One threat actor is taking advantage of the current problems with Citrix ... 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Podcast: NTT CTO Ettienne Reinecke on the Edge Evolution

Network operators have been making investments in high-bandwidth, high-frequency 5G technologies and it could take years for those investments to pay off. While ...