ANGA CABLE – Cologne. Cisco has announced that Danish utility company Bredbaand Nord has launched a 46 channel TV service over a 100 Mbps FTTH network supplied by the vendor. In a seperate announcement HP said that, together with Cisco, it has built a similar fibre-to-the-home network for MidtVest Bredbaand (MVB), that will also offer [...]

ANGA CABLE – Cologne. Today C-COR announced that it has rolled out an enhanced version of its CableEdge (version 2.5) suite with TV Cabo in Portugal. New features in CableEdge include: ability to proactively view and monitor DOCSIS devices in second by second intervals, integrated subscriber information and subscription status within CableEdge, and close integration [...]

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting has expanded its Multi-Service Network (MSNW) into Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest. The move will allow operators, though especially broadcasters, the opportunity to backhaul occasional and permanent feeds to Europe and even the US. It will also provide Telenor with the opportunity to offer satellite and fibre solutions to new and developing markets [...]

Virgin Media has purchased the Ark technology that has supported UK cable’s interactive services for the past six years. “Ark has been a fantastic interactive platform for us and it has become the lynchpin of Virgin Media’s interactive cable services, so it makes absolute sense that they take it on and develop it for their [...]

By moving its Hot Bird 2 satellite from 13 degrees East to 9 degrees East and renaming it Eurobird 9, Eutelsat hopes to extend the capacity currently available through the Hotbird satellites at 13 degrees East. The Portuguese operator TVTel will soon launch a new, two transponder, 20-channel pay-TV platform catering to the country’s two [...]