It’s the eve of SCTE Cable-Tec Expo here in the States, but in the Middle East, industry focus is on FTTX Megna, a fiber networks conference taking place in Dubai. The conference is only in its second year, but it is addressing a rapidly growing industry in the region. The pace of broadband development in [...]
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There’s been a lot of talk about machine-to-machine communications recently, but there are still few large, real-world examples to point to. SP AusNet, one of the largest energy utilities in Australia is trying to change that. Yesterday SP AusNet announced its partners for the rollout of more than 680,000 smart meters connected by WiMAX. Motorola [...]
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Here I was just talking about ONTs, and today Motorola has news out announcing that the company has shipped its one millionth optical network terminal. That’s a lot of fiber deployments. Check out the ONT timeline above. (Click to enlarge) Motorola shipped its first ONT to Comcast back in 2001. Now Motorola has ONTs deployed [...]
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If you happened to hear Ivan Seidenberg’s keynote speech at Supercomm this morning, you know he spent a good deal of time talking about net neutrality. However, avoiding that wasp’s nest, he also provided some insight on where FiOS is headed. Seidenberg was enthusiastic about progress on the interactive TV front, citing Verizon’s multi-room DVR [...]
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Here’s one I missed last week. Motorola announced new Power over Ethernet (PoE) support for enterprise workgroup terminals as part of its Passive Optical LAN (POL) line of products. Motorola POL was launched back in May as an enterprise GPON solution. It operates virtually the same as Motorola’s GPON solution for residential areas, which makes [...]
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