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Richardbrandon As the industry adopts disaggregated routing, there are also new vendors emerging, and some of those, like RtBrick for example, are specifically targetting the BNG function, providing it as software... Articles BBWN Bites: Alternative Access Techs Advance Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/14/2019 Also today, Watch Communications and Ericsson heard it on the radio, Radwin tunes in to better TV white space, Hyperoptic gets new majority owner and more. BBWN Bites: Consumer Tech Spending to Climb to $2.06T by 2023 – IDC Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/11/2019 Also today, Comcast is really virtualizing, Verizon counts on emerging backhaul tech to cut 5G costs, Altice Labs gets results with RDK software, Openreach adds up broadband's benefits for Brits, BT boosts some rural speeds for free, Alcatel's submarine team buys a new-to-them ship, Comcast fixes minor glitch and Brits like broadband, bedrooms and ... BBWN Bites: 60% of US Farmers Have Inadequate Broadband — Study Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/10/2019 Also today, Liberty LatAm to acquire AT&T's assets in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, another DirecTV scenario emerges, OTT's growth spurt and smart doorbells keep ringing. ADTRAN Warns of Tier 1 Slowdown, but Other Biz Grows 20% in Q3 Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/10/2019 Excluding Deutsche Telekom and Telmex, which took a purchasing hiatus in Q3, ADTRAN's business grew 20% over the prior quarter and generated an estimated $114 million, the company reported on Wednesday. USDA Sows $152M Crop of Rural Broadband Funds Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/8/2019 The US Department of Agriculture is investing $152 million to provide or improve rural broadband in 14 states, across 20 projects, the agency announced on Monday. BBWN Bites: US Ponders Financing Huawei's European Rivals – Report Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/8/2019 Also today, Verizon and NEC smarten up rush-hour traffic, DT dances with Netcracker, MediaKind sweeps in Broome as CTO, Comcast promotes Strauss, Ethiopans get their own TV and Wray Castle Group buys Wray Castle Holding. BBWN Bites: Openreach Aims to Accelerate Fiber Rollouts Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/7/2019 Also, a rumor of Charter picking Plume for WiFi, Full Fibre wraps up Leominster, Arvig manages expectations with CrowdFiber and European Space Agency goes sky-high with Adesto. BBWN Bites: India's Top Carriers Could Shell Out $30B for 5G Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/4/2019 Also today, Italy's Open Fiber and Wind Tre expand partnership, FCC considers whether SVoD is "effective competition" to Charter, Vodafone Germany gets even gig-ier and CBizz has a new name but nothing else changes. BBWN Bites: NTIA Keeps Pilot Broadband Map to Itself Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/3/2019 Also today, Australia considers giving NBN penalties to the people, BT conquers Spanish government's contract, Prince Edwards Isle helps ISPs and Brits flunk cheesy broadband quiz. Virtual Routing Software on Open Network Switches Delivers ROI Punch Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/3/2019 Edgecore Networks and Volta Networks unveiled the results of a partnership this week, where Volta's cloud-native virtual routing software can run on Edgecore's open networking switches, enabling network operators to reduce total cost of ownership. BBWN Bites: Telus to Buy ADT Canada Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/2/2019 Also, T-Mobile's home service, cable won't let DOCSIS die and TiVo's new streaming service and hardware. Overwhelmed by Growing SVoD Fees & Choice, More Subs Become Pirates Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/2/2019 Piracy is on the uptick, thanks to the fragmented streaming market and more widely available access to high-speed broadband. Load More Articles + All Articles All Video All Slide Shows All Articles Turning the Keys to State-of-the-Art 5G mmWave Pam Baker, Freelance Writer, 10/9/2019 Fifth-generation wireless technology promises to transform much more than communication: 5G is widely expected to change everything from leisure and healthcare, entertainment and business, in ways most of us cannot yet imagine. That is only, however, if operators prepare correctly, in time, with the appropriate technologies. All blogs		Broadband World Forum Perspectives 9/27/2019 BBWF Interview: Rogers Communications' Lindsey Omelon on the Evolving Customer Digital Experience As the Senior Digital Experience Strategist at Canadian operator Rogers Communications, Lindsey Omelon build on her years of marketing experience to approach her strategy with a hybrid ... Post a Comment 9/11/2019 BBWF Interview: KT's JP Lee on AI in Telecoms There's certainly no shortage of hype around the use of AI in the telecoms sector, but fewer instances of real-world deployments. South Korean national operator KT is one of those ... Post a Comment 9/9/2019 BBWF Interview: MyRepublic's Jay Shah Cuts Through the AI Hype Do a Google search of 'artificial intelligence broadband' and you'll get more than 9 million results in less than a second: The sheer volume of content out there shouldn't surprise anyone ... Post a Comment 8/30/2019 BBWF Interview: Comcast's Michael Soileau on Tackling Transformation Comcast, like any other major communications service provider, is undergoing significant changes in the way it grows its business, how it runs its business and the technologies it uses to ... Post a Comment 8/19/2019 BBWF Interview: NOS's Manuel Eanes on the Smart Home Opp for Telcos Five years ago, NOS board member Manuel Ramalho Eanes banked big on smart homes and smart cities. Post a Comment All Broadband World Forum Perspectives Information Resources >> Last Yard Visibility: Enabling End-to-End QoE with Home Wi-Fi Analytics >> SmartRG Home Analytics: Overcoming Cost and Complexity >> Tracking Critical KPIs to Improve the Subscriber Experience >> Evolving home gateway architecture to enable the smart home >> Accelerate Your Time to Revenue by Simplifying Your OSS/BSS Integration with AXOS >> ADTRAN Case Study: Enabling 5G with Fixed Wireless Access >> ADTRAN Brief: Extend the Life of Your Network Infrastructure >> Catching the mmWave – Avoiding Bidding Pitfalls with the FCC Auction 102 (24GHz) >> Ensure a Role in the Center of the Smart Home >> ADTRAN Primer: Accelerating the Path to Software-Defined Access All resources Webinars Thursday, October 17, 2019 12 p.m. New York/ 5:00 p.m. London MSOs Caught in the Middle: GPON vs. EPON The ongoing debate around GPON vs EPON can get as heated as discussions around politics and religion, but both technologies offer some advantages over the other depending on the needs your network is servicing. In this webinar, we will focus on the facts around the GPON vs EPON debate and how that technological decision is almost always made based on factors outside the technology itself. Key topics include: GPON vs EPON Technologies Overview GPON vs EPON Rates & Reach ITU vs IEEE – Where’s the difference? Future Growth More Webinars Webinar Archives Industry Announcements Prysmian Group Enters IoT With Alesea AI for Cable Drums 2 hours and 21 minutes ago CityFibre Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary of Gigabity City Rollout Monday, October 14, 2019 ADTRAN Announces Preliminary Q3 Revenue of $114M Thursday, October 10, 2019 Coop Puts 35% Savings From Calix Cloud Into Enhanced WiFi With GigaSpire Thursday, October 10, 2019 Verizon & NEC Drive New Smart-City Traffic Uses for Existing Fiber Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Nokia Develops Quillion Chipsets to Power Multi-PON, Next-Gen Access Networks Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Arvig Uses CrowdFiber Tech to Help Customers Find Their Best Broadband Service Monday, October 7, 2019 More Industry Announcements Flash Poll All polls Partner Perspectives - from our sponsors Turning the Keys to State-of-the-Art 5G mmWave By Sivers IMA Necessity Is the Mother of Invention By Mark Weller New Initiative Looks to Open the Mesh & Help ISPs Fight Back By Plume A Personal Coach to Improve Your Firm's Fitness By Eddy Vergauwen, Lead for Global Services Marketing at Nokia Fixed Networks Huawei's Continuous Innovation in Ultra-Broadband Transmission By Huawei All Partner Perspectives Radio Shows ARCHIVED \| April 23, 2019, 12pm EDT BBWN Radio: AT&T Global VP Prescribes Transformation for Healthcare In this insightful Light Reading radio show, Kurt Raaflaub, Head of Strategic Solutions Marketing, will outline the key service provider challenges, deployment considerations, next-gen Gigabit technologies, and service models to win market share in the rapidly growing MDU market. ARCHIVED SHOWS DOWNLOAD TO CALENDAR Sponsored Video Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN CTO, EMEA & APC, shares his thoughts on industry operators leveraging virtualization, disaggregation and open SDN control, ... Network slicing promises to be a panacea, but the biggest hurdles are not technological. The grand ambition of enabling intelligent, adaptive, ... F-Secure has been providing security for endpoints for 30 years, and using AI and machine learning algorithms, for example in the labs to automate ... Fahri Diner, CEO and Co-founder of Plume, unveiled a new open source initiative, OpenSync, at Broadband World Forum 2018. Announced together with ... Talking to Light Reading's Iain Morris, Sebastian Richter from devolo explains why operators have to think beyond delivering high bandwidth and ... All Videos Video Alternative UK fixed-broadband network operator Community Fibre is deploying ADTRAN gear to take 10 Gbit/s to London users at aggressive prices. 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