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Articles BBWN Bites: Wireless providers reject House broadband bill with a loud WISPA Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 5/29/2020 Also in this roundup: GSMA shares impact of broadband surges on power usage; AT&T intros WFH service plan; Texas group taps Adtran for fiber build in 14 rural counties; and analysts say FTTH still trails cable in market share. Kids drove up broadband demand in April – report Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 5/27/2020 As COVID-19 closed schools and sent kids home, and as "screen time" became less a limited pleasure and more a required way of life, appetite for broadband has summarily increased. BBWN Bites: FCC knocks Elon Musk back down to Earth Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 5/22/2020 Also in today's roundup: Openreach taps non-Chinese equipment vendors to build out its network; the Swiss to get a $3.1B helping of fiber through a new JV; and SiFi Networks secures more capital from Smart City Infrastructure Fund to pursue FiberCity builds in the US. BBWN Bites: AT&T suggests stronger appetite for fiber Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 5/15/2020 Also in this roundup: New subsea cable network will span Africa, the Middle East and Europe; Adtran, Openreach partner to expand full fiber across UK; Ofcom shares its glimpse into pandemic-level broadband activity; and US ISPs turn to Congress to pay the broadband bills. BBWN Bites: UK could go Cuckoo for faster Internet Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 5/8/2020 Also in today's roundup: OpenVault reports COVID-19 Internet usage numbers; US House Democrats propose $86 billion broadband bill; ExteNet, Nokia help Cal.net reach rural Californians; and Google bails on Toronto smart city project. WCTEL ramps up remote assistance to keep homes fiber-fed Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 5/7/2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic forces us to reevaluate how we exist in a world where we can't be near each other, rural operators are solving for the challenge of people needing reliable Internet access more than ever, while also striving to keep engineers and support technicians out of harm's way. BBWN Bites: Broadband outages reach record highs Nicole Ferraro, Contributing Editor, Light Reading, 5/1/2020 Also in this roundup: Nextgenaccess and Bluebird complete fiber builds; Comcast forecasts a Q2 COVID-19 hit; state lawmakers plea for broadband bucks in US; and New Zealand commits millions to rural broadband. Podcast: Orange Business Services CEO Helmut Reisinger on coping with COVID-19 Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading, 4/30/2020 OBS CEO Helmut Reisinger and SVP of Customer Services and Operations Aliette Mousnier Lompre discuss keeping customers connected and adapting quickly during the pandemic. COVID-19 data surge is wake-up call for cable's weak upstream Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/29/2020 Cable's residential networks largely survived a traffic surge triggered by millions of consumers working and schooling from home during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Podcast: Plume looks at how we work from home Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading, 4/13/2020 How is COVID-19 changing the traffic and device patterns in our home networks? That's a question a lot of folks are dissecting these days. One helpful, visual resource we've been watching to help answer this question is Plume's Work from Home Dashboard. 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. Load More Articles + All Articles All Video All Slide Shows All Articles The 'Agile Titan' – an Advanced Supplier Model to Meet the Needs of 21st Century Networks Josh Hirschey, General Manager, Amphenol Broadband Solutions and Mette Brink, General Manager, Amphenol Procom & Amphenol Antenna Solutions EMEA & APAC, , 5/7/2020 The need to stay ahead of the technology curve is integral to developing networks that can meet or exceed the bandwidth demand of consumers. Within the broadband industry, we've seen first-hand the approach leading equipment providers have taken, which is to acquire companies that will help fill product or service voids and absorb them into their ... All blogs		Industry Announcements ADTRAN teams with NRTC to deliver multi-gigabit service in Texas Thursday, May 28, 2020 Calix launches new partner program Thursday, May 28, 2020 Cignal TV taps Hughes for satellite-enabled broadband Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Twilio to power NYC's cloud-based contact tracing program Friday, May 22, 2020 SiFi Networks secures $50M for smart city deployments Thursday, May 21, 2020 Openreach taps Nokia to help fulfill fiber target of 20M UK homes Thursday, May 21, 2020 New Calix service gives providers critical info on network bandwidth Wednesday, May 20, 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 >> Spring Showers Bring Lightning Surges – Learn How to Protect Your Network >> Fixed Wireless – Broadband over the Air >> 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 All resources Video The US government has moved to block Huawei's access, not only to US technology but to any technology made with US expertise. Light Reading's Iain ... OBS CEO Helmut Reisinger and SVP of Customer Services and Operations Aliette Mousnier Lompre discuss keeping customers connected and adapting ... 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 ... 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 The 'Agile Titan' – an Advanced Supplier Model to Meet the Needs of 21st Century Networks By Josh Hirschey, General Manager, Amphenol Broadband Solutions and Mette Brink, General Manager, Amphenol Procom & Amphenol Antenna Solutions EMEA & APAC 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 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