October 12, 2007 8:58 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cabling,
voice,
Wireless broadbandCableLabs is releasing a new version of the PacketCable specification used for voice services over cable. The 2.0 release will include support for business features and also support for IMS-based FMC, presumably to support either a cable company push into wireless or an MVNO relationship with a...
October 11, 2007 8:58 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cabling,
Triple play services,
voiceBusiness Week and S&P are now publishing reasonable analysis of the cable/telco competition. The recent work concedes that cable will likely take some market share from the telcos in voice services, but that telcos will take share in both data and video services. As we've said many...
October 2, 2007 10:42 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cabling,
IP services,
Video AdapterPyramid Research has released a report that indicates that cable companies enjoy more synergy in triple- and quad-play services and as a result, telcos are losing margin in their multi-tiered services. While we agree with some of this, we think it misses some key points. First, the best competitive...
September 26, 2007 9:42 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cabling,
Wi-Fi,
WiMAXSeptember 26 2007: The cable companies, in a number of geographies, are deploying both WiMAX and WiFi services with some indication of success, in contrast to the apparent difficulties being experienced by municipal WiFi networks. The success here, we believe, is likely due to...
