PALO ALTO, CA – OnLive, which first became known for its cloud-based gaming services, put its gaming technology to a new use with OnLive Desktop Plus, which delivers gigabit-speed browsing to devices running the OnLive Desktop App. That’s gigabit-speed browsing regardless of the device’s local Internet speed and local computing capability. The free OnLive Desktop App, currently available on iPad — and coming soon to Android, PC, Mac, TVs and monitors — delivers Windows applications, [...]

CARLSBAD, CA – Great Lakes Data Systems (GLDS), which provides billing, subscriber management and provisioning systems for small-to-medium broadband providers worldwide, has been named an approved provider by the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC). NCTC is a programming and hardware purchasing organization for its member companies — nearly 1,000 small-to-medium cable operators throughout the U.S. and its territories. GLDS will also participate in the NCTC Winter Education Conference in Austin, Texas, Feb. 20-21. “Many independent [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — After months of delay, public disagreements about the use of utility poles, and speculation that Google couldn’t complete its project without buying SureWest, which owns a nearby FTTH network (SureWest was just bought by Consolidated Communications), the long-awaited Kansas City fiber network is about to get under way. Google announced that its engineering and barbecue-eating days were over and it was getting down to the serious business of building thousands of [...]

OAKLAND, CA — The Clarksville Department of Electricity (CDE), a municipal utility headquartered in Clarksville, Tenn., announced that it is deploying equipment from Zhone Technologies Inc. in its fiber-to-the-home network. CDE’s active Ethernet network, originally launched in 2007, now includes Zhone’s zNID optical network terminals to support automated metering infrastructure (AMI), high-speed Internet access, VoIP and video services to residential and business subscribers. “Serving more than 60,000 homes in Clarksville, the FTTx network, enabled by [...]

FREMONT, CA – More new broadband subscribers were added in the third quarter of 2011 than at any time since early 2009, according to the Broadband Forum, an industry association. The 3Q figures show significant increases in FTTH and hybrid FTTx subscriptions. Worldwide broadband growth during the quarter, according to figures prepared for the Broadband Forum by research firm Point Topic, is estimated at 17.4 million lines, bringing the global total to 581.3 million, a [...]

PETALUMA, CA– Hawaiian Telcom, the incumbent provider in Hawaii, is deploying fiber deeper into its network and using VDSL2 technology to deliver high-speed data, voice and IPTV video services. For this broadband transformation initiative, Hawaiian Telcom plans to use the Calix E3-12C Serviceable Below Grade (SBG) sealed Ethernet Service Access Node (ESAN) and E7-2 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP), which leverage VDSL2, gigabit Ethernet and 10GE technologies. As a sealed unit, the E3-12C can be [...]

SANTA ROSA, CA – Independent service provider Sonic.net announced that it filed a permit application to build an FTTH network in San Francisco. The application covers only a pilot area of 2,000 homes in the city’s Sunset District, but the company plans a five-year buildout that will reach most San Francisco premises. Sonic.net’s all-fiber network will offer full gigabit-speed Internet access and voice telephone service to customers in San Francisco. Construction will begin in 2012, [...]

PETALUMA, CA ― Polar Communications, the incumbent local exchange carrier for more than 12,000 subscribers in North Dakota and Minnesota, is now delivering fiber-based broadband services using Calix 716GE-I indoor optical network terminals (ONTs) and B6 Ethernet Service Access Nodes (ESANs). Polar is targeting more than 1,000 homes in Cavalier, N.D., with active Ethernet technology deployed across the B6 ESAN and terminated inside the subscriber’s home on the 716GE-I. Subscribers will receive ultra-high-speed data, advanced [...]

EL SEGUNDO, CA – If you didn’t already believe the Internet is transforming the electronics industry, consider this: Shipments of Internet-enabled consumer electronics devices will overtake PC shipments in 2013, according to a new IHS iSuppli Consumer Platforms Report. Shipments of Internet-enabled consumer electronics devices – including televisions, game consoles, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, digital media adapters and media tablets, but not smartphones – will surge to 503.6 million units in 2013, up from 161 [...]

PETALUMA, CA ― Two-time broadband stimulus award winner Silver Star Telephone Company is bringing fiber-to-the-home connections to as many as 10,200 households, 1,900 businesses, and a variety of community anchor institutions in northern Wyoming and southern Idaho, using GPON and active Ethernet technologies with the Calix E7 Ethernet Services Access Platform (ESAP). Silver Star’s two BTOP-funded projects will enhance broadband in 16 counties and dozens of rural communities. Both projects will make use of the [...]