Comcast has confirmed that their new 305 Mbps down, 65 Mbps up tier will be deployed using fiber to the home, not DOCSIS 3.0. The $300 tier, exclusively first revealed by Broadband Reports, is being targeted at FiOS areas to help combat new FiOS Quantum speeds. Comcast didn’t release any technical specifics when they announced the new tier, but anonymous insiders in our forums offered up a little insight into the exact technology Comcast will [...]

Time Warner Cable is one of many U.S. ISPs that has, for too long, beneffitted from little to no real competition in many of its markets. The result is an ISP that tries just hard enough to keep up appearances, but which has been sluggish on system upgrades while usually refusing to seriously compete on price. Now that Google Fiber has entered one of their markets in Kansas City, Time Warner Cable has already been [...]

REDWOOD CITY, CA – Next-generation equipment, including GPON OLTs, DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS and VDSL devices, will lead growth in the access market through 2016, offsetting declining revenue for slower-speed ADSL equipment, says a new report by telecom research firm Dell’Oro Group. GPON, a fiber-to-the-home technology, will have the highest growth rate, followed by cable technology DOCSIS 3.0 and telephone technology VDSL, the report says. “Our forecast for GPON growth is driven by deployments in China [...]

CAMPBELL, CA — The global market for broadband customer-premises equipment (CPE) — including DSL, cable and FTTH — grew 4 percent from 4Q11 to 1Q12, passing $1.76 billion, according to a new report from Infonetics Research. Fiber-to-the-home CPE continues to grow, with 1.25G EPON optical network terminal (ONT) and 2.5G GPON ONT residential gateway revenue up by double digits in 1Q12. However, the cable CPE segment showed the strongest growth, with revenue up 10 percent [...]

Many cable operators haven’t deployed DOCSIS 3.0 yet (especially on the upstream side), but that obviously hasn’t stopped the development of the next step in cable broadband technology. CableLabs says they’re cooking up a new specification that will succeed Docsis 3.0 with a particular focus on cable’s upstream speeds, the spot its weakest when compared to fiber to the home. The next standard, currently just being caleed DOCSIS 3.1 or 3.x, focuses on more effective [...]

Charter this week unveiled their fourth quarter earnings, which show the company took a fourth-quarter loss of $67 million, down from $70 million one year earlier. The company lost 45,500 basic video subscribers during the fourth quarter, but managed to add 67,700 residential Internet customers. Charter’s new president and CEO Tom Rutledge spoke publicly for the first time since leaving Cablevision, noting in a conference call that the company has deployed faster DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades [...]

Comcast has issued their fourth quarter earnings, which show that the cable giant has managed to somewhat slow the flow of subscribers to telco TV and satellite TV alternatives. The company lost just 17,000 TV subscribers on the quarter, compared to 135,000 one year earlier. Unlike some cable operators, Comcast has been aggressive on the DOCSIS 3.0 front, and has at least been trying to keep pace with some of the new TV-related service offers [...]

Time Warner Cable initially took their time deploying faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds, priced them well beyond what most sane people were willing to pay (often in upscale “Signature Home” packages), then complained that the services weren’t initially seeing quite the uptake they’d hoped for during a recession. That seems to be improving slightly in some markets (the company signed up 54,000 wideband subs in the fourth quarter), thanks in part to offers like the free [...]

Akamai has released the latest version of the company’s State of the Internet Report, which in addition to offering plentiful data on virus attack patterns, offers unique insight into global broadband service by tracking the 604 million unique IP addresses that connect to the Akamai network. According to Akamai, just 27 percent of all connections to the Akamai Intelligent Platform were made at broadband speeds faster than 5 Mbps. The Netherlands and their fiber-to-the-houseboats topped [...]

Virgin Media is keeping up its efforts to offer the fastest broadband speeds in the UK UK cable operator Virgin Media has successfully trialed broadband speeds of 1.5 Gbps in East London using DOCSIS 3.0 technology from Cisco. Virgin Media achieved the new speeds using Cisco’s (3G60) Broadband Processing Engine, a high-density, cost-effective line card for its flagship uBR10K Universal Broadband Router and Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS). An important component of Cisco’s complete DOCSIS [...]