Despite certain lagging indicators in the cable industry, RFOG seems likely to get a boost in 2009 as operators spend money building out their commercial services offerings. The RF-over-Glass technology falls in the sweet spot between “cost-effective” (cheap now) and “revenue generating” (FTTP enables future higher-tier services), and is getting more attention of late. While [...]
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Typically the evolutionary path for broadband starts in the workplace and moves out to the home. Consumers moved from dial-up to high-speed because of expectations built at work. However, as evidence that sometimes the reverse is true, Motorola announced today a new solution for the enterprise – Motorola Passive Optical LAN – based on the [...]
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Comcast has a press release out today proudly stating its promotion to third largest phone company in the nation. I posted a note two years ago when the company hit 2 million digital voice subscribers, and now that number has more than tripled to 6.47 million.
While cable has had tremendous success entering the residential phone [...]
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There’s a lot of hubbub on the Net today around a new Wall Street Journal article analyzing who benefits from President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to create universal broadband access. Among the winners listed are equipment makers like Motorola. Without going into much detail, the article states that operators would face massive network upgrades if the [...]
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Jeff Baumgartner has a great post up on cable commercial services today. He’s collected data on several different MSOs and combined it with operator quotes and analysis from Heavy Reading’s Alan Breznick. Interestingly, Jeff’s findings seem to confirm something I wrote back in July, namely that there’s no known sweet spot for the number of [...]
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Om Malik has a post up this morning quoting Infonetics research on the decline of cable modem sales in Q3. The numbers are startling, but it bears looking at a few other data points as well. Motorola, for example, saw modem shipments increase in Q3 to 3.1 million from 2.8 million in the second quarter. [...]
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About this time last year I started doing a series of interviews on the blog with executives leading up to CES. This year I lucked out and had a chance to meet face to face with CTO Ray Sokola for his take on what we’ll see in 2009 and beyond. The [...]
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Readers of TechCrunch know the blog is focused on start-up companies, so the overlap between the subject matter there and the subject matter here is relatively small. But this morning there’s a post up from Erick Schonfeld that has everything to do with Motorola’s business and the business of the video industry as a whole.
Quoting [...]
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Reporters, analysts and amateur commentators far and wide are starting to prognosticate on how NBC will fare with its Olympics coverage. Unlike four years ago, online video viewing is more than a niche pastime, and NBC Universal has to balance its primetime broadcasts with content distribution on the Web. I see three major issues at [...]
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Back in May when Motorola announced the new Modular embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter (M-eMTA), I made a mental note to go back and study the product in more detail. DOCSIS 3.0 devices have grabbed a lot of the media attention, but the M-eMTA Motorola announced (currently DOCSIS 2.0-based) is interesting because it gives cable operators [...]
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