By December 2009, Belgacom International Carrier Services (Belgacom ICS) will have quadrupled the network capacity available to to its international carrier and service provider customers. BelgacomICS has appointed Nokia Siemens Networks to upgrade its optical network transmission capacity from 10 Gigabit per second (Gbps) per wavelength to 40Gbps.
“Our customers are witnessing an increased demand for [...]

Belgacom expands IPTV services with Nokia Siemens Networks
Belgacom TV, the leading Belgian IP television service provider added 250,000 new customers since January 2008, representing an increase of 45 percent over 2007. The company’s success is driven by the implementation of an end-to-end IPTV platform from Nokia Siemens Networks that introduced HDTV (high definition television), VoD [...]

The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI), today announced Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), Malaysia’s leading integrated information and communications group, as the latest carrier to join the influential industry body representing the home networking space.
The role of the HGI is to use its broad member base to establish technical specifications that enable the interoperability of access gateways [...]

Ipanema Technologies, a leader in application traffic management systems for wide area networks, today announced that Belgacom will use its Autonomic Networking System to develop a new application-centric offering.
The Ipanema element provides Belgacom’s customers with real-time visibility and control of what is happening on their Virtual Private Network (VPN). Customers using the Ipanema system [...]

29th September, 2008 – At this week’s Broadband World Forum Europe 2008, the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) will advise the telecom industry that the Intelligent Home Gateway is the critical device for delivering service assurance in the home network.
Based on service provider-led use cases, Duncan Bees – Chief Technology Officer for the HGI – will [...]

The International Engineering Consortium’s (IEC) Broadband World Forum Europe 2008 takes place next month at the Brussels Expo with Belgacom as the Official Host Sponsor
Broadband World Forum Europe 2008
The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) brings its Broadband World Forum Europe 2008 at the Brussels Expo with Belgacom as the official host sponsor. The conference and exhibition [...]

July 2, 2008 – The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) has today announced the appointment of Duncan Bees, formerly Technical Advisor at PMC-Sierra, to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the industry forum representing operators and vendors in the home networking space. Duncan, who is based in Vancouver, succeeds Paolo Pastorino, who will [...]

HGI to present on rise of intelligent home devices at CONNECTIONS US 2008
June 24, 2008 – With the deployment of managed home gateways in North America and Western Europe rising from 16.2[1] million in 2007 to an estimated 34 million[2] in 2009, the device is now a market reality, says the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI), [...]

The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) has today announced that it will be working towards a set of specifications that will outline energy saving solutions for the home gateway. Representatives of the industry body’s worldwide member companies will gather later this month at HGI’s 13th quarterly meeting, in Florence, Italy, where the topic will be high [...]

ADTRAN Solution Enables Migration to Business Ethernet Services
Belgacom (Euronext Brussels: BELG), the Belgian incumbent operator, today announced that they have selected ADTRAN®, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) to supply Ethernet access lines on copper to their new Explore professional service platform. This will enable Belgacom to extend their business-class services availability to locations where their current [...]