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Articles RtBrick unveils broadband network gateway software Broadband World News, , 4/6/2020 RtBrick, which is betting its future on the rollout of disaggregated systems in broadband access networks, has unveiled cloud-native broadband network gateway (BNG) software as the first use case of its next-gen routing code. COVID-19 means game on – ABI Research Ken Wieland, contributing editor, 3/26/2020 ABI Research reckons that COVID-19, which has sparked school closures, social distancing and in-home sheltering, may well lead to a "drastic increase" in online services and content consumption. In turn, says the research outfit, this could bolster cloud gaming revenue to as much as US$4.5 billion by 2024. Coronavirus and connectivity Fiber Broadband Association, , 3/25/2020 With the worldwide spread of COVID-19, we're facing unprecedented circumstances. The pandemic is forcing us to restructure education, businesses and the global economy entirely. As we practice social distancing and self-quarantine, the only way to maintain a semblance of normalcy is to connect online. And that is only possible with the correct devices ... BBWN Bites: OneWeb adds birds, feels heat Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/24/2020 Also in this roundup: Streamers ease off; Danes boost broadband availability; Veego teams up with Amdocs; Ukrtelecom takes GPON rural with Iskratel; and more. Say hello to Ziply Fiber Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/20/2020 Ziply Fiber has been tagged as the take-over brand for the northwest operations of beleaguered Frontier Communications to be acquired by WaveDivision Capital for about $1.35 billion. BBWN Bites: EU calls for HD restraint Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/19/2020 Also in this roundup: RDK's popular; WBA assumes control of Cisco's OpenRoaming; Virgin Media offers Gigabit to 1 million homes; and more. BBWN Bites: Macquarie wins Cincinnati Bell bidding war Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/17/2020 Also in this broadband sector roundup: European operators ask for the improbable; Calix boasts new deals; US firms react to COVID-19; UK new builds to get Gigabit minimum. Frontier on the ropes Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/16/2020 Frontier Communications' share price lost more than 23% of its value Monday after the company announced it had deferred by 60 days debt payments due to be made today "and enter a 60-day grace period as it continues constructive discussions with its bondholders regarding Frontier's capital structure." BBWN Bites: Cable increases its dominance of US broadband market Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/9/2020 In this broadband sector news roundup: US cable cements its broadband stronghold; Italians at loggerheads; CityFibre shifts up a gear; UK's FTTH market linked to more funding; Canada's Xplornet snapped up for $2 billion. Full fiber is France's fave broadband choice Ken Wieland, , 3/6/2020 French regulator ARCEP gave guarded Gallic approval to the country's latest bunch of broadband stats: It thought the transition from broadband subscriptions to superfast broadband - downlink speeds equal to or above 30 Mbit/s - was going along at a "steady pace." AT&T goes live with XGS-PON in 40 markets Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 3/5/2020 More than two years after first announcing successful field trials of XGS-PON technology in two cities (Atlanta and Dallas), AT&T has gone live with high-speed broadband services delivered by the new generation access technology in dozens of US markets, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth and Detroit. OECD – OMG... Same old full-fiber trends Ken Wieland, , 3/5/2020 "Nothing to see here" is what you could be forgiven for thinking after poring over the latest full-fiber stats from the OECD, a "club of mostly rich countries" (as The Economist magazine likes to say). Load More Articles + All Articles All Video All Slide Shows All Articles Evolving unlicensed 5G applications: Closing the divide in mobile and last-mile connections Pam Baker, Freelance Writer, 10/23/2019 Unlicensed 5G applications open a new world of benefits to enterprises large and small, given their use of exceptionally wide bandwidth or broad channels at a time when other spectrum is nearing exhaustion. All blogs		Industry Announcements Everstream secures $342.5M in debt financing 10 hours and 17 minutes ago TDS Metrocom to build FTTH network in Idaho Friday, April 3, 2020 IMU picks Calix to deploy next-generation fiber Thursday, April 2, 2020 Veego adds Amdocs as partner, investor Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Royell gains customer insight with Calix Tuesday, March 17, 2020 TDS waives broadband fees for students for 60 days Monday, March 16, 2020 HCI picks Calix for fiber deployment Monday, March 16, 2020 More Industry Announcements Sponsored Video Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN CTO, EMEA & APAC, shares his thoughts on the regulatory and government policy, technology adoption and consumer services ... 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 ... All Videos Information Resources >> Home Networking Applications Outpacing your Wi-Fi? >> Accelerate Your Time to Revenue by Simplifying Your OSS/BSS Integration with AXOS >> Open for Business: Future Flexibility for Smart Home Services >> Improving Wi-Fi capacity and efficiency in the Connected Home with Wi-Fi 6 >> Tracking Critical KPIs to Improve the Subscriber Experience >> When Less is More… the Power of Aggregation Simplified. >> Harbour ISP Supports Three Times as Many Users With netElastic >> Telpin Saves 70% With netElastic >> White Paper: Next Generation Virtual BNGs – Is Your Broadband Network Ready? >> Tracking Critical KPIs to Improve the Subscriber Experience All resources Video The lines are blurring between streaming media and pay-TV devices and CSPs need to figure out how to manage that change, says Omdia analyst Paul ... Omdia's principal research analyst, John Kendall, discusses whole home solutions and the importance of WiFi strategies to communications service ... Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Omdia's principal research analyst, John Kendall, talks about developments in the broadband CPE market as WiFi 6.0 ... At the recent Broadband World Forum, Alzbeta Fellenbaum, a principal analyst and manager of research at IHS Markit, discusses the broadband speed ... At the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam, Michael Philpott, senior practice leader of Ovum's Consumer Services team, outlines the key ... All Videos Webinars ARCHIVED Tuesday, March 24, 2020 11:00 a.m. New York / 3:00 p.m London Transforming Your Network Through Virtualization Over the next two years, approximately 60% of service providers (both large and small) will adopt virtualization on a wide scale across their networks, according to the latest survey report from Ovum. Why are providers making these moves? Is there an easy way to start? Learn how and why service providers are using virtualization to transform their networks. This webinar will look at how providers are leveraging virtualization to create more flexible and agile networks while also providing a better customer experience. Expert speakers from netElastic and Heavy Reading will address the industry drivers for network virtualization, the benefits that can be realized, the challenges to face and the results of virtualization being achieved by providers today. Key topics will include: Current network infrastructure and the move to virtualization Benefits and challenges of network virtualization How providers can get started Service provider success stories: the decision to virtualize, the solution, and results More Webinars Webinar Archives Partner Perspectives - from our sponsors Evolving unlicensed 5G applications: Closing the divide in mobile and last-mile connections By Sivers IMA What Service Providers Should Know About WiFi 6 By Greg Owens, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Calix 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 All Partner Perspectives 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