Valley View: There'll be no escaping the home entertainment revolution

2Wire demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in January how their modems for telecoms carriers had developed into home gateways offering a variety of bolt-on services.

The $100M Revenue Club: 2Wire

In an effort to diversify, 2Wire is aggressively moving to bring on new customers. It also is pushing ahead to put in place the infrastructure that the telecom companies are needing or will need, specifically in providing video-related offerings and services.

Residential Gateways with 2Wire

CTO Jaime Fink discusses the evolution of residential gateways and their growing role in cost effectively delivering next-generation digital home applications to subscribers.

For TV: Explaining Why 'There's an App for That'

When looking for new content and offerings, consumers would rather look at apps from existing services. [Jaime Fink] said that one way to introduce these new apps and new connectivity from the service provider’s end is through the gateway.

Light Reading Announces Its 2009 Top Picks
The 2Wire HomePortal GEM platform has been named a Light Reading Top Pick after a great dialogue on the Light Reading blog between 2Wire CTO Jaime Fink and Light Reading judge Phil Harvey.

The Hybridization of the Set-Top Box
Other players, including 2Wire and Motorola, argue that set-top box functions can be integrated into the RG and that there are significant advantages to such integration.

2Wire Cares for Bell Canada
Unlike other customer care providers that charge fees based on the length of a call, 2Wire uses a fixed cost structure and highly skilled onshore support team to drive down operating costs, improve connect rates, reduce churn, and increase customer satisfaction.

2Wire Follows up on Residential Gateways

The residential gateway's role for telecom services has become better defined with each year, and the rollout of advanced broadband services, bundles, and telco/IPTV will continue to drive growth.

Home is where the network is
[The HomePortal GEM's] modular approach, [Jonathan Symonds] said, will "give rise to a whole suite of applications" and help telcos that provide home networking solutions to stay flexible with new applications and services as things evolve.

MTS Allstream connects with 2Wire
Canadian telco TV leader MTS Allstream is deploying 2Wire's HomePortal intelligent gateways as it expands its MTS TV in more parts of Manitoba, Canada. The vendor's gateway supports bundled TV, Internet, phone, home security, automation and other capabilities over broadband connections such as VDSL2 and a variety of home networking options.

MTS Allstream selects 2Wire HomePortal gateways
MTS Allstream reportedly plans this expansion as part of its long-term broadband evolution strategy to bring television, Internet, phone, and home security and automation together on one platform.

New Blockbuster and Netflix devices
The Blockbuster MediaPoint set-top is made by 2Wire, which manufactures broadband networking gear. The deal is well-nigh irresistible...

Blockbuster to rent through new on-demand device
The player, made by San Jose-based 2Wire Inc., is built on the same concept as storage devices made by Apple Inc. and Vudu Inc. The devices are all meant to provide a bridge between the Internet and TVs.

The Blockbuster Set-top Box Has Arrived
Movie rental maven Blockbuster has officially entered the set-top box arena. Its offering, MediaPoint, will go head-to-head with other online DVD rental services that have inked deals with hardware partners.

Movies in a Box: Blockbuster Offers Download Device
Blockbuster is using a set-top box made by 2Wire... The box was designed so that phone companies and other Internet providers can offer Internet-delivered video to television screens in an inexpensive way.

2Wire debuts MediaPoint set-top box, but you can't buy it--yet
The MediaPoint box will have a small footprint (just 7 inches square) and a good array of features, including HDMI output, wired and wireless network connectivity, USB expansion options, and UPnP and DLNA compatibility for streaming media from sources on the home network.

2Wire's BT Coup
BT Group plc handed 2Wire Inc. a significant new opportunity today by deploying the home gateway specialist's boxes at the Ebbsfleet, England, site that is spearheading the carrier's fiber-to-the-premises push.

Telecom Business Hub Provides 2Wire Gateways to Small Businesses in New Zealand
New broadband plans specifically tailored for SMEs are available, and include business-grade wireless modems from partner 2Wire, as well as a dedicated broadband service centre to help SMEs keep connected to their online world.

The DVD Download Business: Competition from Telcos and Cable
AT&T Homezone is a comprehensive entertainment service with a set-top box at its heart. Manufactured by 2Wire, the box is essentially a networked DVR. Homezone offers a lot of things wrapped into one package, designed to deliver a multimedia smorgasbord in fulfillment of AT&T's vision of the "digital living room."

2Wire Has Reasons to Celebrate
Pat Romano, co-founder, president, and CEO of 2Wire sees limitless opportunities for 2Wire in the broadband marketplace now. The market is going through a period of significant maturation and consolidation and 2Wire has scale, technology, a large customer base, and a world class group of employees on their side.

It's a pipedream stream
BigPond has been promoting home gateway wi-fi equipment using technology from 2Wire that makes it easy for consumers to link their broadband service to various digital devices.

2Wire, Rosum in product partnership
Broadband service platform provider 2Wire, Inc. and indoor/outdoor location technology company Rosum Corp. on Monday announced a partnership to integrate Rosum timing and location software into 2Wire femtocell products.

Survey respondents would rather switch than fight dropped calls
Forty-three percent of respondents surveyed by 2Wire said they would rather switch cellular carriers to get better in-home coverage, lending credence to the growing movement for either femtocells or fixed-mobile convergence with dual-mode devices as a way to improve home reception.

Who Makes What: Telco home gateways
Turnkey product approaches may become more common as the home-gateway paradigm becomes widely established – an approach that 2Wire, for example, is following. “We have really moved more towards converging our media, residential gateway, and server technologies inside the home into the single design architecture, because we definitely see a space where operators want one unified product and support environment,” says Jaime Fink, 2Wire VP of technology and strategy.

Mixing satellite TV into the wireline triple-play
2Wire provides the residential gateway, backend management system and customer care for AT&T’s HomeZone. The advantage the hybrid STB offers is that, through progressive download of on-demand content, movies requested by the consumer can begin in approximately seven seconds — much quicker than a linear model, according to 2Wire.

Home is where the connection is
2Wire wares [debuted at CES] include a home server so consumers can back up digital content they’ve acquired from any number of sources. “We’re providing both the in-home hardware and the management of that … so (providers) can go sell that as an add-on service to their triple play and data offerings,” said Jaime Fink, VP of technology and strategy.

2Wire Connects the Home
With its 2Wire intelligent home server and the 2Wire Shifter, the company says it allows end users to reach the content they want anytime, anywhere. At the same time, the products give service providers more control over multimedia connectivity as a managed service.

Smart Leaders: Pasquale "Pat" Romano
As president and CEO of 2Wire, Romano weathered the [2001 venture capital draught] and grew his company to 1,400 employees and 2006 revenue of $242 million after three straight years on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America.

2Wire buys Linux home networking firm
"Telecommunication providers are ideally positioned to be the primary integrators of personal media and entertainment services, providing a complete platform for managed digital media networking," Romano said in a statement.

The power of a cellular tower -- now in a home version
The market research firm ABI Research expects that as many as 150 million people could be using 70 million femtocells by 2012. 2Wire plans to combine femtocells with its "residential gateway" devices, which also handle DSL Internet access and WiFi.

DSL Forum Honours 2Wire Software Specialist For Pioneering Broadband Standards Work
John Blackford, a software architect with 2Wire, a provider of broadband service delivery platforms, has been presented with a Circle of Excellence award by the DSL Forum in acknowledgement of his outstanding work in supporting the development of standards protocols for broadband deployment worldwide.

2Wire Ranks in Light Reading's "Top 10 Private Companies"
2Wire Inc. is one of the three survivors from our last Top Ten Private Companies list from March 2006. Then, we liked the home gateway vendor for several good reasons.

Subscription TV Providers Think Out of the (Set-Top) Box
Late last year, AT&T Inc. began deploying new set-top boxes made by 2Wire to tens of thousands of households that subscribe to AT&T's Homezone television service. The silver-and-black device offers consumers options such as downloading videos from the Internet or viewing digital photos on their TV screens.

2Wire Adds Femtocells for FMC
Regardless of which network operators win or lose, hardware developer companies like 2Wire, which partners with service providers world wide to bring its DSL access products to market, will find increased success by incorporating the latest technologies into their access devices.