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Broadband service begins with edge access. It stands to reason that the process of virtualizing broadband capabilities should also start at the edge.... More Info

Unless you were sleeping under a rock last month, you heard the big news: Charter Communications intends to purchase Time Warner Cable and consolidate it, along with Bright House Networks, into one monolithic multi-system operator (MSO). Charter moved quickly on the deal following the collapse of the Comcast/TWC merger.... More Info

“Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make.” -Tim Berners-Lee We are in an industry largely driven by and, in many ways, obsessed with innovation as a concept. That’s true for the wider communications world, always looking to change the way people interact with one another and consume media.... More Info

Believe it or not, the smartphone revolution is only eight years old. It kicked off in 2007 with Apple’s prescient slogan, “This is only the beginning,” and the release of the first iPhone, which pulled smartphones as a whole out of the geek toy box and into the realm of mass-market acceptance.... More Info

“If I have a thousand ideas,” Alfred Nobel once mused, “and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” While his most famous invention… dynamite… went on to do both good and bad things, there is no question that it was an important advancement, and that it changed the face of the 19th and 20th centuries. And this was possible because he was willing to risk failure to accomplish something unique that would have an impact so great, it would change the face of history.... More Info