TWC Expands TV Everywhere Content
Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) is expanding its Vutopia movie service by including access via web-connected PC and Mac computers and laptops across its footprint. The Vutopia service allows instant access to hundreds of movies and trailers on either set-top boxes … Continue reading
Shaw Biz Inks Internet Deal with Winnipeg
Shaw Communications (NYSE:SJR) announced a multi-year agreement with the city of Winnipeg to improve the city’s network access and connection by providing a 35-site virtual private LAN service (VPLS). The agreement has Shaw Business creating separate VPLS domains for each … Continue reading
Rogers Biz Launches Enterprise SIP Trunking
Rogers Business Solutions announced the availability of SIP trunking, a new IP-based voice solution designed to complement its fiber-based Internet and WAN connectivity services, for enterprise customers. Rogers Business Solutions, a division of Rogers Communications (NYSE:RCI), provides Canadian enterprises with … Continue reading
Comcast, Verizon Top Biz VoIP Scorecard
Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) top Infonetics Research‘s “North America Business VoIP Service Leadership Scorecard.” Comcast earned a high overall score of 33 out of 35 for hosted VoIP services. Verizon Business earned a high overall score of 32 out … Continue reading
Q1 Financials: Interesting Exceptions
Sometimes the exceptions tell you more than the rule does, and that’s certainly so with cable operators’ financial results for the first quarter of 2012. A couple cable ops have actually gained video subscribers. For several years now, cable has … Continue reading
Cox Launches Small-Biz Social Media Site
Cox Business announced the launch of an online social destination for businesses. The website, BLUE Powered by Cox Business, contains exclusive content from global social media, marketing and business leaders and is free to all businesses. BLUE Powered by Cox … Continue reading
MEF Launches CE 2.0 Cert
The Metro Ethernet Forum is launching a Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification program for services and equipment. Registration for CE 2.0 certification opens May 1 for equipment vendors and will open on May 28 for service providers. The MEF is providing … Continue reading
IPv6 Shadows Loom Over Enterprises
While enterprises might not feel the immediate pressure to evolve their infrastructure to IPv6, certain actions they and others are taking may be putting their networks at risk of shadow networks, malware, or other security breaches. As a result, web … Continue reading
Optimum Lightpath Courts Demanding Verticals
Optimum Lightpath positions its new uncompressed video service as a logical step in the company’s strategy of catering to companies in demanding verticals in the tough New York City metro area. More specifically, the company’s Managed Video Services now will … Continue reading
Comcast Biz Hooks Up Red Sox Ballparks
The Boston Red Sox have selected Comcast Business Class Metro Ethernet to deliver high-speed communications at both Boston’s historic Fenway Park and the team’s new spring training facility, JetBlue Park at Fenway South, which opened this spring in Fort Myers, … Continue reading
Optimum Lightpath Adds HD Video Transport
Optimum Lightpath‘s Managed Video service now supports 1.485 GB linear uncompressed HD-SDI over dedicated wavelength. The functionality is available throughout the company’s New York metro area footprint, supporting the real-time transport of uncompressed HD video over a 100% fiber network. … Continue reading
VoIP: Residential Strong, Biz Growing
According to Infonetics Research, revenue from residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers still eclipses that from businesses, but the business segment is growing about twice as fast, largely because of the popularity of SIP trunking and hosted VoIP and unified communications … Continue reading
Upstarts Eye Cable’s Small Biz Lunch
Over the next five years, all of the major U.S. telcos and cable TV MSOs are expected to lose small business customers to a new crop of hosted service providers that will offer PBX-like voice services at lower reoccurring costs … Continue reading