06-23-00
Motorola Ships 450,000 Access Units to Optus
Midcontinent & Black Hill FiberCom to Deploy ADC
Tellabs and Arris Introduce VoIP Support
UPC Reports 174,400 Residential Subs
ADC & Alcatel Form Marketing Alliance
AT&T to Expand Cable Telephony Services in Penn.
MediaOne Ends '99 with 88,000 Phone Lines
Irish MultiChannel to Deploy Tellabs' System
ADC's System Providing Optional Mod & FEC Techniques
Cablevision Ends Q'1 with 10,175 Telephony Subs
Motorola Ships 450,000 Access Units to Optus
Motorola has announced that it has shipped 450,000 cable access units to
Optus for use with the provider's cable telephony service. Optus is adding
4,000 to 5,000 new subs per week in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Optus passes more than 2.2 million homes.
Motorola
http://www.mot.com/multimedia
Optus
http://www.optus.com.au
Midcontinent & Black Hill FiberCom to Deploy ADC
Midcontinent Communications and Black Hills FiberCom will be deploying
ADC's Homeworx network to offer telephony services. Midcontinent, which
operates systems in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota has
entered into a deal with ADC valued at up to $10 million over three years. The
operator will initially offer services in Sioux Falls, where services are expected to
be introduced in late summer. Based on an agreement valued at up to $2
million, Black Hills will deploy ADC's gear in Rapid City, South Dakota.
ADC
http://www.adc.com
Midcontinent Communications
http://www.midcomm.com
Black Hills FiberCom
http://www.blackhillsfiber.com
Tellabs and Arris Introduce VoIP Support
Tellabs and Arris have introduced IP telephony support within their existing
cable telephony systems. Tellabs expects trial use of the VoIP capability in the
first half of next year. Arris plans to have VoIP as an option with its Converged
Host Terminal by Q'4 of this year.
Tellabs
http://www.tellabs.com
Arris
http://www.arris-i.com
UPC Reports 174,400 Residential Subs
UPC has reported that it ended the first quarter with 174,400 residential cable
telephony lines and 5,469 business lines. By country:
|
Country | Residential | Business |
|
Norway | 5,951 | 163 |
|
France | 18,917 | 396 |
|
Netherlands | 95,405 | 2,600 |
|
Austria | 54,089 | 2,310 |
Priority Telecom
http://www.prioritytelecom.com
ADC & Alcatel Form Marketing Alliance
ADC has teamed with Alcatel to form a marketing alliance to promote ADC's
Homeworx network to specified providers throughout the world. Alcatel's
integration services will be bundled with the solution.
ADC
http://www.adc.com
Alcatel
http://www.alcatel.com
AT&T to Expand Cable Telephony Services in Penn.
AT&T plans to offer cable telephony services to several communities in
Pennsylvania including Allegheny, Beaver, Washington, Greene, Westmoreland,
Armstrong, Jefferson and Indiana. The provider already offers cable telephony
in Pittsburgh.
AT&T
http://www.att.com
MediaOne Ends '99 with 88,000 Phone Lines
MediaOne ended 1999 with 88,000 cable telephony lines among 66,000
customers. 24,000 customers were added in the fourth quarter. MediaOne
provides telephony services in 7 markets.
MediaOne
http://www.mediaone.com
Irish MultiChannel to Deploy Tellabs' System
Irish MultiChannel has said that it will deploy Tellabs' CableSpan 2300 system
for telephony services to be offered throughout Ireland. The deal, estimated at
$20 million, calls for the two to work together to design services, plan the
network, establish tech support and implement CableSpan. Telephony services
are scheduled to be fully scaled in three years. Initial services are expected to
be introduced in the first half of this year.
Irish MultiChannel serves 230,000 video subs, passing 600,000 homes.
Tellabs
http://www.tellabs.com
Irish Multichannel
http://www.irish-multichannel.ie
ADC's System Providing Optional Mod & FEC Techniques
ADC has announced that its Homeworx network provides operators with the
option to use QAM-32 or QAM-4 with FEC as a modulation scheme. The
vendor claims that other features have been added to network offering
improvements in flexibility, manageability, and robustness.
ADC suggests that its Homeworx platform supports up to 6 times the telephony
traffic per 6 MHz channel of any of its competitors and that the system
physically occupies less than 60% of the floorspace required by other telephony
systems.
Cablevision Ends Q'1 with 10,175 Telephony Subs
Cablevision has reported that it ended the first quarter with 10,175 residential
telephony customers from nearly 130,000 homes passed, giving it a 7.9%
penetration rate. During Q'1, the operator expanded the service to pass an
additional 26,600 homes.
Cablevision
http://www.cablevision.com
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