Cable
WACS consortium and Alcatel-Lucent sign contract
The WACS consortium and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a turnkey contract valued at several hundred million US dollars to deploy a new submarine cable network that will provide the first direct connection between Southern Africa and Europe. Named the West Africa Cable System (WACS), this 14,000 km-long submarine network system is expected to bolster internet and [...]
Bharti Airtel, AJC collaborate on connectivity solution
Australia Japan Cable and Bharti Airtel have announced a partnership agreement to interconnect their current and future networks in Guam. The agreement will allow both parties to offer services from a number of locations including Singapore and the USA West Coast to Australia. Bharti Airtel believes this will pave the way to offering new and [...]
NXP unveils new DVB-C solution, STB150
NXP Semiconductors, a semiconductor company founded by Philips, has unveiled the new STB150 system solution, delivering a complete production-ready platform for the digital cable TV services market. The NXP STB150 integrates a new single-chip CX2448x MPEG-2 decoder for DVB-C (Digital Video Broadcasting – Cable) reception with a TDA18252HN silicon tuner and complete software stack, giving [...]
Hathway to launch NDS-powered DVR services
NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has announced that Hathway, a digital cable provider in India, has launched its Digital Box PLUS DVR solution, based on NDS XTV DVR technology. The new DVR solution is aimed at enabling subscribers to take control over what they watch and when they watch it. The [...]
NXP, MIPS unveil 45nm HDMI 1.3 receiver IP solution
MIPS Technologies, a provider of architectures, processors and analog IP, has announced that its cooperation with NXP Semiconductors has resulted in, what is claimed to be, the industry’s first 45nm HDMI 1.3 receiver IP solution. The companies announced a year ago that they were extending their strategic relationship to offer HDMI-based IP solutions for digital [...]
Fusionone partners with Susteen
Fusionone, a provider of mobile phone content portability services, has partnered with Susteen, an international content transfer provider specialising in the area of data communications and mobile computing, to integrate Fusionone’s Handset Transfer Solution product with Susteen’s Mobile Genie in-store cable-based data transfer solution. As a result of this integration, consumers purchasing a new mobile [...]
Siemon launches Z-MAX network cabling solutions
Siemon, a provider of network cabling solutions, has introduced its Z-MAX end-to-end network cabling solution, designed from the ground up at Siemon Labs, reportedly ‘to shatter the previously accepted limitations of the RJ-45 interface’. This category 6A twisted pair copper family is available in category 6A UTP and shielded configurations. Z-MAX cords feature an exclusive [...]
