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		<title>HomePlug Releases New Spec, Looks to HD Video Distribution Throughout the Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Burger</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The HomePlug Powerline Alliance has adopted new specifications that are expected to quintuple performance as compared to current HomePlug AV solutions at the application layer. Members, of which Comcast is one, are looking to the HPPA-AV2 spec to ensure reliable delivery of &#8220;throughput-intensive applications, such as 1080p HD and emerging 3D and 4K HD broadband [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Windstream Strengthens Network Security Product Suite for the Enterprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Burger</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Windstream has beefed up network security for its enterprise management customers by adding a Managed Security Enterprise service to its portfolio.  The telecompetitor has partnered with Fortinet to offer the network security service provider&#8217;s FortiGate unified threat management system to enterprise customers with up to 2,500 users, Windstream announced in a news release...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Best Buy to Sell Clearwire 4G WiMAX Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Engebretson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy and wireless operator Clearwire today confirmed speculation that Best Buy would use Clearwire’s 4G network to offer mobile Internet service to customers beginning in 2011. The offering will essentially be a new 4G tier for the recently launched Best Buy Connect service, which is based on 3G connectivity from Sprint.
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		<title>Verizon, Turner Turn Up TV Everywhere Volume</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Burger</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Turner Broadcasting Systems (TBS) is now using new online video content management technology from Adobe and FreeWheel to deliver online programming across screens large, small and mobile via Verizon&#8217;s FiOS. Telecompetitors such as Verizon and content providers such as TBS are looking to the new functionality to fill two critical gaps&#8211;user authentication and ad distribution [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>ACS Expands Enterprise and IT Portfolio With TekMate Acquisition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernie Arnason</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Alaska based Alaska Communications Systems (ACS) is looking to grow enterprise and IT revenues through a strategic acquisition of 49% of TekMate, an Anchorage based information technology company with 40 employees and $5.5 million in revenue. ACS offers wireline, broadband, and wireless service throughout Alaska and also operates undersea data connectivity with the lower 48 [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Genband Targets Rural LECs for IP Transition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Telecompetitor</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Seattle, WA, July 28, 2010 – Continuing its leadership in supporting service provider migration to IP, GENBAND, a leading developer of IP solutions and services, today introduced a new Automated Cutover capability to its C15™ Compact Softswitch that eliminates downtime normally associated with network transitions to IP.
Introduced at the OPASTCO tradeshow (booth #27) in Seattle, [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Broadband Stimulus Bonanza for August/September?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernie Arnason</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus program was signed into law as a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 almost 18 months ago. What’s even more interesting is that with just about two months to go until the September 30, 2010 deadline to announce all of the [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>AT&amp;T Offers New Cloud-Based Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Telecompetitor</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dallas, Texas &#8211; July 28, 2010 &#8211; Building on its position as a leader in managed security, AT&#38;T*, a leader in managed cloud based security, today has announced two separate enhancements to its suite of cloud-based security services – the launch of AT&#38;T Security Center, a new Web-based security administration tool that is accessible via [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>FCC Chairman’s OPASTCO Address: Universal Service Funds Are “Finite”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Engebretson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In an address at the OPASTCO conference in Seattle today, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski attempted to justify the Universal Service reforms proposed in the National Broadband Plan issued in March.
Small carriers that receive Universal Service funding, such as those represented by OPASTCO, support the National Broadband Plan’s recommendation to transition today’s voice-focused fund to one [...]<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Windstream CEO Jeff Gardner: Stay the Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernie Arnason</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Unlike its large tier 2 telco brethren CenturyLink, Frontier, and FairPoint, Windstream has decided against any type of mega-merger (at least for now) and has rather chosen strategic acquisitions like Iowa Telecom and NuVox.
Windstream CEO Jeff Gardner tells CNBC that his goal is to continue in this course, which allows him to diversify the company’s [...]<div class="feedflare">
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