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News & Views Most Popular Cable Infrastructure Spending Slogs Through Another Tough Quarter By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 12/5/2019 Q3 spending on cable network tech improved but it's still well below historic levels, Dell'Oro says. Post a Comment Podcast: Cable Gets the Urge to Converge By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/21/2019 Light Reading's Jeff Baumgartner and Alan Breznick discuss the key themes from Cable Congress and Cable Next-Gen Europe in Berlin, finding there's a renewed focus on 1-Gig speeds and the fixed mobile network. Post a Comment Cable Europe Charts Course to Become 'GIGAEurope' in 2020 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/13/2019 Name and structure change coming to industry organization reflects the move to gigabit-class speeds over converged fixed mobile networks and the need to provide a unified voice to Europe's policymakers. Post a Comment Advertisement DOCSIS 3.1 Takes Hold in Europe By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/13/2019 Cable's competitive and complementary relationship with 5G, the industry's progress with distributed access networks and its flirtation with a 10-Gig future will also be hot topics at this week's Cable Next-Gen Europe event in Berlin. Post a Comment CommScope's Virtual CCAP Creeps Toward Reality By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/7/2019 As it continues to play catch-up with Harmonic, CommScope says its virtual CCAP is in trials with cable ops and is slated for a commercial launch by the end of the year. Post a Comment Keeping the Fiber Lines Running Smoothly By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 11/4/2019 With service providers installing so much fiber in their plant right now and seemingly no end in sight, the need for automated test solutions will only keep growing. Post a Comment For Casa Systems, the Hits Keep Coming By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/1/2019 Stock plunges 34% after lackluster Q3 lowlighted by Casa's struggling cable business as MSOs slash or delay spending. Plus, an analyst covering Casa is agitated by management's 'reduced communication.' Post a Comment Advertisement Harmonic's 'Cable OS' Deployment Nears the 1M Modem Mark By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/29/2019 Aided by its Comcast deal, Harmonic sees a 20% surge in the number of devices being served by its virtualized converged cable access platform. Post a Comment Fiber Will Trump HFC & 5G From Here to Kingdom Come, EFF Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/18/2019 Declaring that local US governments are in 'dire need of universal fiber plans,' the Electronic Frontier Foundation props up FTTP as the 'superior choice for the 21st century.' Post a Comment Comcast's Virtual Access Network Rolls Into Multiple Markets, Spans 100K+ Customers By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2019 Top Comcast execs discuss the benefits and capabilities of the company's new virtual access network and how Comcast is applying lessons from its cloud-based X1 platform. Post a Comment Seven Things We Learned at Cable-Tec Expo By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/10/2019 The 10G future is in sight, HFC has gas in the tank, Comcast is getting serious about network virtualization, DOCSIS's pioneers get recognized and more from last week's show in The Big Easy. Post a Comment Network Convergence Revolution to Drive Speed & Efficiency, CommScope CTO Says By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/8/2019 Distributed architectures and other common, underlying technologies and techniques are also starting to span across both wired and wireless networks, Morgan Kurk says. Post a Comment Can Cable Bridge the 'GAP'? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/4/2019 Charter and a group of vendors are championing a node standardization initiative called the Generic Access Platform that's showing signs of promise, but the effort needs more buy-in from suppliers and MSOs. Post a Comment Telecom Acronyms Going OTT (TAGO) By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 10/4/2019 LMAO @ SCTE. Post a Comment HFC May Never Die By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/1/2019 The cable industry, in partnership with CableLabs, is exploring how to deliver services at 6GHz and beyond, Cox exec says. Post a Comment DOCSIS 4.0 Ends Cable Network Feud By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/30/2019 DOCSIS 4.0 unifies previously feuding Full Duplex DOCSIS and Extended Spectrum DOCSIS proposals for boosting network bandwidth. Post a Comment When Will Cable Need 10G? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/30/2019 No one knows exactly for sure, but one top industry network engineer believes cable operators will need access network capacities of 'at least' 10 Gbit/s by 2035. Post a Comment Harmonic's 'CableOS' Adds More Fiber to Its Diet By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/30/2019 Vendor extends capabilities of its access network virtualization platform as some MSOs deploy fiber-to-the-premises in targeted and greenfield scenarios. Post a Comment Cable Access Revenues Plummet 40% in Q2 – Dell'Oro By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/27/2019 Decline driven by excess capacity, particularly in the downstream, amplified by recent indecision about the path forward on the cable access network, analyst says. Post a Comment Dan Whalen, Arris's Former Top Network Exec, Heads to Adtran By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/26/2019 Hiring Whalen as chief product officer is another indicator that Adtran is accelerating its cable industry strategy as MSOs mull their next-gen access network moves. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Broadband Access Revenues Dip 12% in Q3 but Cable Infrastructure Spending Improves – Dell'Oro Wednesday, December 4, 2019 Cable Europe Rebranding as 'GIGAEurope' Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Denmark's DSA Rolls Harmonic's 'CableOS' Platform for Gig Services Friday, November 1, 2019 Casa Systems Revenues Reach $81.8M in Q3 Amid Light Cable Product Sales Thursday, October 31, 2019 Harmonic: 'CableOS' Growth Powers Record Q3 Monday, October 28, 2019 Altice Labs Embraces RDK Broadband Gateways Thursday, October 10, 2019 Casa Systems Goes Multi-Access at Cable-Tec Expo Thursday, October 3, 2019 Westman Taps Technetix for Modular Upgrade Monday, September 30, 2019 Despite Rough Q2 for Cable, Global Broadband Access Gear Revenue Rises 3% Thursday, September 26, 2019 Comporium Taps Harmonic's 'CableOS' Platform to Aid DAA Migration Thursday, September 26, 2019 Viavi Taps Partners for DAA Network Testing & Maintenance Program Wednesday, September 25, 2019 CommScope Tees Up New Cable Network Tech Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10G, Low Latency, IoT & Cable's 'GAP' Initiative Highlight Cable-Tec Expo's 'Innovation Theater' Thursday, September 5, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Discovered in Enterprise-Grade VPN Larry Loeb, Author, 12/6/2019 Aviatrix, an enterprise VPN company with customers that include NASA, Shell and ... 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New 5G Network Security Threats Sigma Systems at Digital Transformation World 2019 Ciena Talks Converged Interconnect Networks at Cable ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux: A Secure Foundation for the ... Viasat: Connecting the Unconnected LotusFlare: Awesome Digital Experiences to Drive Growth Source Photonics CEO: Vertical Integration & Lean Models ... MobiledgeX: Who Benefits From Edge Computing? Why Is 5G Different? VMware Service Assurance: Reducing Operational ... Architect Digital-Ready Infrastructures Using SDN & NFV Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network ... Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... Semtech: LoRa Technology Enabling Proven, Flexible IoT ... Versa's CEO, Kelly Ahuja: Securing & Software-Defining ... How Lumina Is Redefining SDN Aryaka's Gary Sevounts: Advantages to Consuming SD-WAN ... Calix's Shane Eleniak: How Data Analytics & Software ... MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... Masergy's NFV Journey Mavenir on RCS Cloud Platform & Multi-ID Keep Connected IoT Devices Under Control With Allot Metaswitch: Defining the Cloud Native Core Accelerating IP/Optical Network Visibility & Control Making 5G NR a Reality With Qualcomm Act on Your Intelligence With Amdocs aia! Making 5G New Radio (NR) a Reality Accelerating C-V2X Toward 5G for Autonomous Driving Dan Sahar of Qwilt on Open Edge Cloud Platform Nominum's Craig Sprosts on DNS & Cybersecurity Trends Versa: A Lot More Than SD-WAN SmartNICs & the Future of Network Virtualization Introducing the Next-Generation ONT (Optical Network ... A10 Networks on Service Providers' Industry Needs Check Point on Cybersecurity Accelerating Telecom Digital Transformation With Nominum DNS VeEX Test & Measurement Solutions Versa Networks' Kumar Mehta on SD-WAN Managed Services The Era of Agile Optics Has Arrived Atrinet's NetACE – Migration to NFV & SDN With ... Vodafone Live NFV Use Cases Powered by Amdocs Sonus in VellOS Mellanox Open Composable Networks Network Security Orchestration Sonus in the Cloud Sonus Strategy Netronome's Server-based Networking Platform Nexius: The Strategy & Science of Data Analytics Overture Networks NFV Solutions ECI's Elastic Network Masergy: Transforming Enterprise IT Arbor Networks on ISP Traffic Visibility ECI's LightSec: Comprehensive Cyber Security Solution ECI’s LightApps: Intelligence for Networks Service Gateway Virtual Edition SDN Management & Orchestration in the WAN Sedona Systems: Multi-Layer Applications Platform NFV – a Catalyst for Business Services Growth Telefónica: In Search of Virtual Simplicity Affirmed Networks Highlights NFV in Mobile Core Close-up on ConfD NetNumber Founder on Managing Signaling Control Tail-f, Cisco & What the Future Holds Sonus Shakes Up SD-WAN Automate, Scale & Create With Juniper's vCPE Solution Metaswitch's New CEO Martin Lund Discusses His Role ActiveVideo's Cloud Virtualization Technology Nominum on Leveraging the Power of DNS to Deliver ... Palo Alto Networks on Expanding in the Carrier/Service ... Infoblox on DNS Threat Index The Netformx Ecosystem Versa Networks on Leveraging VNFs Nuage Networks on Operationalizing SDN Mellanox's New 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet Products Arista's CloudVision VIEW FULL VIDEO SHOWCASE Prime Reading Don't Put a Cap on Capex Just Yet Mari Silbey , Senior Editor, Cable/Video , 9/15/2016 Vendor forecasts suggest capex spending in the telecom sector is still headed up, ... (4 comments) Innovation Roundup: How US Pay-TV Providers Stack Up Mari Silbey , Senior Editor, Cable/Video , 1/27/2016 A snapshot of the pay-TV market in early 2016. (0) Leading Lights 2015: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 5/7/2015 Light Reading is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights ... (0) ViaWest Looks East, North, After Shaw Acquisition Dan O'Shea , Analyst, Heavyreading.com , 4/14/2015 After being bought by Shaw Communications last year, regional data center ... 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