Last Mile / Middle Mile

AT&T may go big with its rollout of residential fiber in major markets across the U.S.  The company announced a major initiative to expand its Gigabit-capable fiber network to up...

AT&T is in advanced discussions with the North Carolina Next Generation Network (NCNGN) about the possibility of rolling out fiber-based AT&T U-verse with GigaPower broadband service to parts of the...

Habersham Electric Membership Corporation, a non-profit, member-owned cooperative serving Northeast Georgia, began offering a 1 Gbps FTTH service for $99/month. The FTTH footprint currently serves 1,800 customers. http://www.trailwave.com/

The Google Fiber projects is looking to expand it rollout beyond Kansas City, Austin and Provo to include up 34 additional cities over the next few years. The company is...

AT&T confirmed that sales of the fiber broadband service in Austin, Texas has exceeded its expectations. AT&T now plans to expand the all-fiber network to reach twice as many Austin...

AT&T launched its "GigaPower" all-fiber Internet network in Austin, Texas. The service features initial speeds of up to 300 Mbps, although AT&T expects to upgrade the performance to 1 Gbps...

CableLabs announced the availability of its DOCSIS 3.1 PHY (physical layer) and MULPI (MAC and Upper Layer Protocol) specifications. Some highlights: Speed: Defines support for up to 10 Gbps downstream...

Broadcom confirmed that its end-to-end EPON ONU and OLT chipsets and DML software are ready to be deployed in DOCSIS provisioning of EPON (DPoE) 1.0 environments. Broadcom said the 1G...

Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange agreed to share vertical fiber in buildings.  The deal will help the operators deliver new services in apartment buildings where rivals have already installed vertical fiber....

Broadcom introduced a hybrid cable gateway set-top box solution combining DOCSIS 3.0 and Gigabit wireless gateway functionality with HEVC video decoders and a quad video transcoder onto a single piece...

Austin, Texas is the next Google Fiber city. Two years after launching the first Google Fiber project in Kansas City, Google confirmed its intention to bring a similar network to Austin by...

AT&T is prepared to build an advanced, residential fiber network in Austin, Texas to rival Google's planned deployment. AT&T said it expects the city of Austin will grant it the...

Broadcom's fourth generation DOCSIS 3.0 chipset bond up to 24x8 DOCSIS channels to achieve 1Gbps downstream speed -- triple the downstream bandwidth and double the upstream bandwidth from previous generations. The new BCM3384 DOCSIS/Euro-DOCSIS 3.0...