Month: October 2012

Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC) has joined Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) in funding CENX Inc. , the Ethernet exchange startup, the companies announced Monday. The companies aren’t saying how much Ericsson contributed; it’s “multiple millions” of dollars, CENX CEO Nan Chen tells Light Reading. Verizon’s...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday streamlined a set of rules that should make it easier for cable operators to flesh out their business service plans by acquiring Competitive Local Exchange Companies (CLECs). The Commission didn’t outright kill a rule that made the CLEC-buying...

Arris Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRS) and Evolution Digital LLC are among the latest vendors to obtain licenses for Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK)’s reference design kit (RDK), a bundle of software for hybrid QAM/IP and IP-only set-top boxes, Light Reading Cable has learned. The RDK...

Welcome to today’s broadband and cable news roundup. Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) has activiated another 2,500 Wi-Fi hot spots in eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, with the highest densities in Boston, Cambridge and Brookline, says The Patriot Ledger. Comcast, already active with Wi-Fi...

Coherent transmission is turning optical modules into an electronics game, as evidenced by two announcements coming out this weekend as ECOC 2012 opens in Amsterdam. Acacia is announcing that 500 of its AC100 modules for 100Gbit/s have been installed in networks as of June. Meanwhile,...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Drawing upon a deep heritage of innovation in 3G, Wi-Fi and WiMAX technologies, ZyXEL Communications today introduced its all-in-one LTE512x series CPE to the North American market. The LTE512x delivers 4G fixed broadband Internet along with a complete range of connectivity options...

AMSTERDAM and SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Finisar Corporation ( NASDAQ : FNSR ) today announced a demonstration of the industry’s first densely packaged 2x1xN two-slot ROADM linecard with Flexgrid™ capabilities. The highly integrated ROADM linecard features a high port-count Flexgrid™ Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) and a...

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is finally delivering a smartphone with true 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) onboard as it unveiled the iPhone 5 in San Francisco Wednesday. 4G LTE will make uploads and downloads on the new phone several times faster than the 3G service...

Mindspeed Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: MSPD) must have had its spidey senses tingling when it decided to work with a small startup called SpiderCloud Wireless to develop an indoor wireless system for large enterprises. SpiderCloud, of course, has nothing to do with Spiderman, or clouds. Rather,...

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD) is announcing a couple of switching advancements Wednesday and while neither is all that radical, both show the vendor upping its game in key competitive areas. Both products are likely to be highlights of Brocade’s analyst day, being held...