Year: 2012

LOS ANGELES — MEL announced today that the company plans to produce a low-energy consuming DWDM SFP transceiver (TRx), leveraging its patent-protected Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating and its athermal structure technology. The new tunable TRx, named as MLT (Mechanically Locked Tunable), excludes energy consumption for...

ATLANTA — Huge consumer hunger to enjoy compelling content and emotional connections across multiple devices/networks has created a host of new operator challenges and opportunities. The popularity of new cable TV and Internet services – particularly Internet video – has dramatically transformed the requirements for...

Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) says that it will have its faster 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) service coming to “more than 100 cities” in the U.S. in the “coming months.” The third-ranked operator revealed those new launch plans on its community blog Monday morning....

Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) plans to sell its 7.8 percent stake in erstwhile wireless partner Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR) less than a month after the MSO and three other cable operators received government approval to sell their advanced wireless services (AWS) spectrum to...

Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is getting ready to trot out a usage-based broadband plan in Tucson, Ariz., that will start to match up customers’ monthly data allowances with the speeds of their Internet service packages. On the high end, customers who take Comcast’s fastest...

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,...