Tarana, a telecom manufacturer that introduced next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) to the broadband industry, and Winncom Technologies, a global distributor of broadband equipment, have announced their partnership to expand the reach of Tarana’s Gigabit 1 (G1) platform across 6 continents. (more…)
January 19, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Washington, United States – Fiber Broadband Association announced its 2023 board of directors as the organisation prepares to help lead the industry into its largest investment cycle. The new board is comprised of industry leaders that represent a diverse spectrum of companies from across the fibre broadband industry and have served on the Association’s committees. Their expertise will help steer the Fiber Broadband Association to advance its goal to close the Digital Equity Gap for all Americans. (more…)
December 27, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, a provider of satellite and multi-transport networks for over 50 years has announced that OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, has ordered 10,000 Hughes LEO Terminals to enable networking services for enterprise and government customers. (more…)
December 15, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
London, UK, 29 November 2022 -The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has announced publication of “Rural Wi-Fi Connectivity: Challenges, Use Cases and Case Studies,” a report that demonstrates why Wi-Fi is the most economical and effective technology for bridging the digital divide in small towns, remote communities and other sparsely populated areas, utilising the best available backhaul solution. (more…)
November 30, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
RADWIN, a global wireless broadband solutions provider, announced a partnership with UK distributor and partner to resellers, system integrators, OEMs and mobile network operators, Cogent Distribution. This new partnership will extend the reach of RADWIN’s products to the UK market, while delivering on Cogent’s promise to add continuous value. Cogent Distribution will offer an extensive collection of RADWIN’s wireless broadband solutions, for Point-to-MultiPoint and Point-to-Point connectivity. (more…)
November 25, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Ciena Corporation, a networking systems, services and software company has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tibit Communications, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Petaluma, California, and that it has acquired Benu Networks, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. Tibit and Benu are focused on simplifying broadband access networks through PON technologies and advanced subscriber management, respectively. (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban
18 November 2022 – The Federal Communications Commission has released a pre-production draft of its new National Broadband Map. The map will display specific location level information about broadband services available throughout the country a significant step forward from the census block level data previously collected. (more…)
November 23, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Adtran, Inc., the provider of open networking and subscriber experience solutions has announced that Greece’s power utility, Public Power Corporation (PPC), is leveraging the Adtran end-to-end fibre broadband solution to launch its pilot high-speed wholesale network in the municipality of Peristeri, within the region of Attica. When expanded nationwide, PPC plans to support all local broadband service providers and connect over three million homes and businesses with fibre over the next four years. (more…)
November 21, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Vancouver, Canada – MetaBlox Network, a web3 project building a global OpenRoaming Wi-Fi network in a decentralised way, presented at the Wireless Broadband Alliance’s (WBA’s) Wireless Global Congress (WGC) in Amsterdam on October 19th, 2022. WGC is Europe’s Wi-Fi conference, where new developments in wireless networking technologies are presented and discussed by industry leaders. This year, a main focus of the event was accelerating Wi-Fi OpenRoaming adoption towards building one global Wi-Fi network. (more…)
November 3, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Nokia has announced Kinetic by Windstream is the communications service provider (CSP) to use its application in containers solution. The Arkansas-based operator, which provides high speed broadband services across 18 states, is deploying the new container framework on its Nokia Beacon 6 broadband devices, available to 300,000 customers. Application containers enable the simple introduction of new services remotely from the network. Windstream’s initial value-added services to subscribers is F-secure‘s cybersecurity and parental control solution. (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban