ASSIA Blogs
ASSIA Expresse Solutions Help Service Providers Improve Customer Experience
posted by Jeff Scroggin
Vice President of Strategic Programs
March 27th, 2013
Customer experience management (CEM or CXM) is an area of growing strategic importance for corporations today. For broadband service providers, it can significantly impact revenues, churn and brand recognition. Read more >
The Vectoring Tsunami: More and More Service Providers are Riding the Next Wave of Broadband
posted by George Ginis
Vice President of Product Management, DSL Expresse
February 7th, 2013
Today, we’re seeing more and more service providers planning or implementing vectoring in a worldwide vectoring tsunami that could last for years. Read more >
The ATIS Dynamic Spectrum Management Technical Report Issue 2: A New Best-Practices Document for DSM and Vectoring
posted by Peter Silverman
Director, Standards and Technical Marketing at ASSIA, and ATIS Technical Editor
December 24th, 2012
Standards evolve from best practices and industry consensus, and a new document that identifies best practices for Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM), the ATIS Dynamic Spectrum Management Technical Report Issue 2, is an important step forward. Read more >
AT&T Combines Fiber and Copper for an Expanded U-verse
posted by Steve Timmerman
Senior Vice President of Marketing
December 3rd, 2012
AT&T plans to expand its high-speed U-Verse network and increase speeds up to 75 Mbps is good news for the future of video-on-demand services and online games, and great news for the future of copper. Read more >
Picture-Perfect IPTV, Video, and Gaming over Residential Wi-Fi and Broadband
posted by Jerome Joanny
Vice President, Product Management
October 30th, 2012
Increasingly, the home is becoming a hot-bed of the very latest streaming multimedia technologies. In the 1950s, it was the TV and one or two home appliances. Now in addition to a plethora of appliances, homes in the US have an average of 12 network-connected devices, such as tablets, laptops, interactive gaming consoles and smartphones, as well as Smart TVs and even Internet-connected refrigerators. Read more >
The Business Behind High-Performance Broadband
posted by Reed Hundt
ASSIA Board Member and Former FCC Chairman
September 4th, 2012
ASSIA is a unique company with an important mission, and I look forward to a productive, successful relationship with the company for years to come. Read more >
ASSIA Welcomes its First Chinese Customer, China Telecom Jiangsu
posted by John Cioffi
CEO and Chairman
July 17th, 2012
On behalf of everyone at ASSIA, I’m delighted to welcome China Telecom Jiangsu to our growing list of customers worldwide. Read more >
Can Multiple Service Providers Support ADSLs, VDSLs, and Vectored VDSLs in the Same Cabinet Area? Of Course!
posted by Marc Goldburg
Chief Technology Officer
June 12th, 2012
As 2012 turns out to be the year of VDSL and vectoring, regulators worldwide are considering the technical and competitive implications of this next generation of broadband competition and services. Read more >
DSL is Alive and Well
posted by Steve Timmerman
Senior Vice President of Marketing
April 2nd, 2012
While many industry pundits are portraying DSL as a declining broadband technology, the opposite is actually true: DSL is alive and well – and growing. Read more >
No More Crosstalk in the Vectoring Conversation
posted by George Ginis
Vice President of Managed Systems Engineering
March 8th, 2012
The full potential of vectoring cannot be realized without a vectored DSL management system that applies the dynamic spectrum management (DSM) methodology to DSL networks. Read more >
Vectored DSL Brings 100 Mbps
posted by George Ginis
Vice President of Managed Systems Engineering
February 14th, 2012
VDSL enables data rates exceeding 100 megabits per second (Mbps) in each direction, which accommodate high-bandwidth services such as IPTV, and the ever-increasing demand for such services by an ever-increasing number of tablets and other mobile devices. Read more >
2012: The Year of VDSL
posted by George Ginis
Vice President of Managed Systems Engineering
January 12th, 2012
With the race to provide ubiquitous high-speed broadband for new services heating up, it looks as though 2012 is set to be the year of VDSL (very-high-speed digital subscriber line), and a great year for DSL overall. Read more >
High-Speed Broadband: Get Ready for IPTV!
posted by Philip Bednarz
Executive Vice President of Product Development
July 27th, 2011
The explosion in the popularity of Internet applications and bandwidth-intensive services, such as IPTV or OTT content, as well as the dramatic increase in the number of in-home internet connected devices, continues to create a huge demand for high-speed broadband. Today’s tech-savvy consumer expects and demands always-on, fast and reliable Internet connectivity. Read more >
The future of high-speed broadband access is already lined up
posted by Jerome Joanny
Director of Product Management
March 15th, 2011
When it comes to achieving next-generation broadband speeds, mainstream opinion seems to focus on fiber to the home (FTTH) as the Holy Grail of the future. While there's no denying that FTTH can offer amazing speeds, the potential of high speeds over existing copper lines—and the advantages—should not be overlooked. Read more >
Go Green with ASSIA Power Management
posted by Wonjong Rhee
Vice President of Research
November 29th, 2010
Whether global warming is the real thing or nature's hiccup, much of the world is determined to develop and use green energy solutions to reduce power consumption and CO2 emissions. Governments and regulatory agencies are leading this effort, which is likely the right direction regardless of the cause of climate change. As part of the overall push to lower power consumption, there is increasing pressure to cut power in telecommunications data centers. One area that many operators are focusing on is improving energy efficiency in their DSL networks. Read more >
Why unified management for DSL is important and achievable
posted by Marc Goldburg
Chief Technology Officer
September 15th, 2010
There are nearly five-hundred million (500,000,000) broadband subscribers worldwide today, and all have individual expectations for their broadband services. E-mail and Web access are common applications, to be sure. Beyond that, however, each customer consumes broadband services in a different way. Some customers want to stream music and video entertainment, others want to manage and monitor home energy use, some use it for telecommuting, some are gamers, etc. Add to this the diversity of the access and home network technologies that deliver broadband services – which include DSL, Fiber, Cable, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and Powerline – and the different broadband requirements for each service, and one begins to appreciate the complexity faced by operators in delivering high-quality services at an acceptable cost. Read more >
Why the DSL subscriber base is growing faster than any other broadband technology
posted by Marc Goldburg
Chief Technology Officer
April 12th, 2010
Broadband access has become a necessity in developing and developed economies alike. Some countries, such as Finland, have gone so far as to make access to broadband a fundamental human right. The debate over the value and necessity of broadband is over. Commercial, technical, and policy debates have now shifted to the best processes for making broadband universally available. There's no shortage of topics to be debated: how will universal broadband be funded? how will it be leveraged for society's good? who will deliver it? what technologies are appropriate? how will competition in broadband delivery be fostered? and so forth. The goal for this blog is to address these larger broadband industry issues. We invite you to browse the other portions of our Web site for specific information on ASSIA's products. Read more >