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Talk about a new class of amplifier that could give FDX a wider window of opportunity as operators explore options for DOCSIS 4.0 continues to circulate. But vendors have yet to pinpoint their product development plans.

Cox Communications is in "advanced talks" to acquire the enterprise business of fiber provider Segra from EQT in a deal that could be valued at more than $3 billion, including debt, Bloomberg reported. The deal, which could be announced as early as this week, is likely to combine the Segra unit with Cox Business, the report added, noting that Charlotte, North Carolina-based Segra intends to hold onto its residential business. Segra, formed by EQT through the combination and rebranding of Lumos...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – WOW! Internet, Cable & Phone (NYSE: WOW), a leading broadband services provider, today, Earth Day, announced its continued commitment to supporting the environment through technological and operational improvements that have a direct impact on reducing WOW!s carbon footprint. While the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly slowed greenhouse gas emissions, the cause for concern is nowhere near over. The shift to remote work from the pandemic caused household internet and data ...

This week in our WiCipedia roundup: Womens role in climate tech; how Black women are affected by AI; Women in Techs monumental pandemic growth; and more. Its hard to pinpoint the percentage of climate tech workers who identify as female, but if the numbers are anything like the rest of tech, we need more. GreenBiz recently published an article explaining the many unique reasons why we need more women (and other minorities) working in tech on climate change as well as spotlighting women who are...

Rogers Communications is blaming a glitch tied to an Ericsson software upgrade as the root cause for widrespread mobile service outages it suffered on Monday. The software update affected a piece of equipment in the central part of the Rogers wireless network, leading to "intermittent congestion" and other service issues for many mobile customers across Canada, the company said. In addition to apologizing for the snafu, Rogers said it will automatically apply a credit on May bills for wireless...

Change management – are you prepared for this new era? Digital transformation, and how the digital World drastically changed during 2020 Value creation in Finance- and much more during the 5 days Though the shift is easy to see, addressing it isn’t easy to do. Companies that have started their transformation early on are more resilient and are able to handle the pandemic in a better way. But many organisations are now pushed into their transformation and business leaders are searching for pra...

Adtran is taking a bigger stab at the enterprise IoT market with a new LoRaWAN Gateway powered by the long-range/low-power connectivity platform. Adtran said the new product, dubbed the 7310-08 LoRaWAN IoT Gateway, can connect to a multitude of low-bandwidth sensors and put partners in position to deploy a LoRaWAN overlay network. Adtrans new LoRaWAN gateway is designed for indoor deployments. (Image source: Adtran) The company will use the new product to focus on smart building applications...

News Wire Feed Light Reading 4/20/2021 LONDON – Virgin Media has demonstrated the power and capability of its fibre-rich network by successfully delivering next-generation 2.2Gbps broadband speeds to homes in Southampton and Manchester in real-world trials. The multi-gigabit speeds – around 40 times faster than the local average broadband speeds – have been delivered via Virgin Medias existing, future-proof cable network using broadband technol...

With apologies to Donny and Marie, Altice USA is a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll. However, the broadband growth challenges of its rock and roll side – the Optimum (former Cablevision) footprint in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that tangles with Verizon Fios – tends to overshadow the underappreciated broadband potential of its rural Suddenlink footprint. Click here for a larger version of this image. And that perception, which doesnt give much credit to Altice USAs...

Trial of distributed access architecture in select UK areas to support Liberty Globals GIGAbit network.