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Leading Lights: The Broadband Winners Light Reading this week unveiled its annual Leading Lights winners, including the latest to garner accolades for their achievements in broadband. Editors presented the awards during a dinner at Brazos Hall in Austin, Texas. Many top executives from the communications industry were on hand, preparing for the next day's opening of the Big Communications Event (#BCE2018) and 5G North America in the Austin Convention Center May 15 through May 18. Hundreds of contenders applied for 24 categories. Some winners previously shared in Light Reading include:
Most Innovative Telecoms Product (Optical IP/Carrier Ethernet/FTTH)
Winner: Sedona Systems
Most Innovative Gigabit/FTTx Service
Winner: CityFibre FTTP partnership with Vodafone
Most Innovative SD-WAN Service
Winner: Comcast Business See the entire roster of winners and runners-up. And check out which industry luminaries entered Light Reading's Hall of Fame this year, as well as Women in Comms' WiC's 2018 Leading Lights winners. Related posts:
— Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News. Follow us on Twitter or @alisoncdiana. |
In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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