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Harmonic made more progress with CableOS, its virtualized access network platform for both hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) and fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks, in Q4 2020. But the overall deployment still represents a small fraction of the modems served by those customers.
Harmonic said its cloud native CableOS product was deployed commercially with 44 customers at the end of Q4 2020, up 91% versus the year-ago period, with six more coming on board since the end of Q3 2020. Those deployments covered 2.6 million served cable modems, up roughly 500,000 from the 2.1 million served at the end of Q3 2020.
Deployments of CableOS are expanding, but the current crop represents just 5% of the 50 million-plus modems served by Harmonic s early CableOS customers.
REC Seeks Partners for Expanded Broadband Services
Fredericksburg, Va. – Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) knows how important increasing access to retail broadband service is to its member-owners. The Cooperative continues to actively seek partnerships to utilize its infrastructure and rights-of-way to expand broadband internet service in its 22-county service area.
As REC moves closer to establishing some of the first partnerships, the Cooperative also faced a major setback to its plans towards the end of 2020. In October, REC’s Board of Directors approved a $600 million broadband construction project that would also allow REC, through an affiliated company, to become a retail broadband service provider. Funding for the approved project was dependent on REC’s previously announced participation in the Federal Communications Commission Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction.
Charter Launches Multiyear Initiative to Expand Broadband
February 2, 2021
Charter Communications Inc. announced it has launched a multiyear, multibillion-dollar broadband buildout initiative to deliver gigabit high-speed broadband access to more than 1 million unserved customer locations, as part of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction.
Charter expects to invest approximately $5 billion to support its buildout initiative – offset by $1.2 billion in support won from the RDOF auction – expanding Charter’s network to lower-density, mostly rural communities that do not have access to broadband service of at least 25/3 Mbps.
The initiative is in addition to its existing network expansion plans, including numerous state broadband grant projects and the company’s privately funded expansions. The network Charter will build in these rural areas will offer 1 Gbps high-speed broadband access to all newly served customer locations with starting spee
Penn State Extension, PUC partnership instrumental in expanding broadband access
An interactive broadband access map created by Penn State Extension, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, was an important tool for helping internet service providers prepare bids for “reverse auctions” held by the Federal Communications Commission. The blue and purple sections in this image show the areas of the commonwealth that will benefit from the project.Image: Penn State/FCC
Penn State Extension, PUC partnership instrumental in expanding broadband access
Amy Duke
January 22, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. For the thousands of Pennsylvanians who have been left by the wayside on the information superhighway, help in the form of high-speed internet is en route, thanks, in part, to an alliance between Penn State Extension and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.