Cablevision added 83,700 high-speed data (HSD) cable modem customers in Q1 2003, giving it a total of 852,800 customers. This represents a 22% penetration rate for its high-speed data service, compared to 17% in the same period a year earlier. Cablevision added nearly 185,000 digital video customers in Q1, giving it a total of 401,400 such subscribers, a 14% penetration rate. However, there was a loss of 11,600 cable customers in the quarter, although figures for March, April and May indicate a return to subscriber gains.
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- Cablevision is deploying Internet Photonics’ LightStack MX and LightHandler optical Ethernet and WDM transport platform as key elements of its video on-demand network rollout. The LightStack MX is a 10 Gbps platform that can multiplex up to eight GbE services onto a single 10 Gbps wavelength. The LightHandler is an all-optical, passive DWDM management platform that can be added to existing SONET networks to add up to 320 Gbps of capacity. The equipment is used to provide a 10 Gbps DWDM optical transport infrastructure between Cablevision’s content headend and the remote distribution hubs that connect to customers.