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The Top 100 MDU Technology Providers for 2016 nology P Tech rovid DU er M s — 2016 — Owners of multiple-dwelling-unit properties rely on these providers for technology amenities. A BBC Staff Report he 2016 MDU Top 100 list celebrates • Design, build or manage broadband networks companies that serve the MDU market in multifamily properties under contract to Tas technology partners. This list is property owners or service providers technology neutral, unlike the FTTH Top 100 • Offer expertise to property owners or MDU list that BROADBAND COMMUNITIES publishes service providers about the legal, financial and each July. It takes into account a wide variety of marketing aspects of delivering broadband strategies – including, but not limited to, fiber • Provide equipment for wired broadband to the unit – for property owners to provide networks in MDUs broadband and other technology amenities to • Provide equipment for video headends and multifamily communities. video distribution in MDUs The list focuses on technologies that owners • Provide equipment for wireless broadband use to make properties attractive to residents (either cellular or Wi-Fi) in MDUs rather than technologies they use to operate • Provide back-office software or services for subscriber management, customer care, their buildings efficiently. billing and related functions Companies on the list do one or more of the • Offer solutions for MDU technology following: amenities beyond the triple play. • Sell video, internet, telephone, managed Some of these companies sell products and Wi-Fi and related services to residents of services directly to property owners, and others multifamily properties, either individually or sell products and services to their providers, such in bulk, through agreements with property as private cable operators. However, whether owners property owners deal directly or indirectly with these companies, they all provide solutions that property owners should be aware of. CRITERIA AND SELECTION To nominate your company or a PROCESS To select the Top 100 MDU technology technology partner for the 2017 Top 100 providers, BROADBAND COMMUNITIES relied on MDU Technology Providers list, send an a panel of industry experts. Because experts don’t always agree and because changes were email to [email protected]. taking place in the industry as this feature was 14 | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | www.broadbandcommunities.com | OCTOBER 2016 are frequently used in MDUs but MDU TOP 100 AT A GLANCE are not specifically marketed to or for them. For example, cable Alphabetical List .................................................... | 16 set-top boxes are found throughout Service Providers ................................................... | 18 MDUs everywhere, but they cannot be specifically classified as Design, Engineering, Installation and Service Management .......| 24 MDU products. Though only a Other Consulting and Contract Negotiation........................| 26 minority of the companies on this list focus exclusively on the MDU Equipment – Wired Broadband .....................................| 30 market, most have sales divisions Equipment – Video Headend, Video Distribution and Related .....| 34 or specialized offerings that address this market and cater to its needs. Equipment – Wireless Broadband ..................................| 36 Don’t miss the “Companies to Back-Office Software and Services..................................| 38 Watch” list, a group of companies that Broadband Applications ............................................| 40 may not be as large or well-established as the Top 100 companies but are Companies to Watch for 2017 .......................................| 42 making names for themselves with innovative offerings. To nominate your company or a researched and prepared, the magazine’s • Identify MDUs as a target market technology partner for next year’s list, editors made the final selections. Many technology products write to [email protected]. In addition to operating in the U.S. market, criteria included the following: • Provide products or services that help property owners create The Leading Conference on Broadband Technologies and Services technology amenities to attract and retain residents Broadband Communities The technology amenities that attract and retain residents vary MagazineCongratulates depending on the residents an the newest sponsors and exhibitors joining the owner is trying to attract and retain. 2017 Broadband Communities Summit. Some demographics look for blazing internet speeds, over-the-top video AFL iPiFony solutions and ubiquitous wireless AMT Magellan Advisors coverage; others want a wide variety American Polywater Corp. Mesh Networks of linear TV channels; others may NiSC want specialized channel lineups AT&T OFS or the option of health-monitoring BHC Rhodes Pavlov Media solutions. Of the companies on this Calix Power & Tel list, some offer services targeted Clearfield Primex to a specific niche, and others Finley Engineering offer flexible solutions that can be ServerPlus Freeside Internet Services, Inc. tailored to the needs of a particular Spectrum Community Solutions community. Great Lakes Data Systems Synergy Broadband • Have a history of innovation and Henkels & McCoy VantagePoint successful deployments Innovative Systems Verizon Companies on the list may have GigabitNow XFINITY been recommended by advisory panel members based on firsthand To Exhibit or Sponsor contact: Irene G. Prescott knowledge or may have been [email protected] | 505-867-3299 subjects of case studies in this 877-588-1649 | www.bbcmag.com magazine or elsewhere. OCTOBER 2016 | www.broadbandcommunities.com | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | 15 MDU REPORT TOP 100 MDU TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS FOR 2016 3M Company Communication Technologies Gray Robinson ADTRAN Graybar Advanced Media Technologies Harmonic Advanced Multimedia Healthsense AFL Hotwire Communications Airwave Networks Hubacher & Ames Allegion InfiniSys Alpha Technologies Inspire WiFi Altice USA iPhotonix AT&T Kaba Access & Data Systems Americas ATX Networks KGP Logistics Bandwidth Consulting Korcett Holdings Bel Air Internet Legrand Blonder Tongue Laboratories Leviton Manufacturing Broadband Consulting Group MDU Network Technologies (MDU Netech) Broadband Enterprise Mesh Networks Broadband Planning Mood Media Calix Multicom Campus Technologies Multilink Carl Kandutsch Law Office National WiFi Cautela Solutions NetBlazr CenturyLink, CenturyLink MDU Solutions Nokia Charles Industries North American Cable Equipment Charter Communications, NorthStar TeleSolutions Spectrum Community Solutions OFS Choice Property Resources Pace International Clearfield Pavlov Media Clearview Networks Perfect 10 Comcast Cable, XFINITY Communities Pico Digital CommScope Power & Tel ComVest RCN Consolidated Smart Broadband Systems RealPage Control4 RealtyCom Partners Corning, Corning Optical Communications Ruckus Wireless Cox Communications SeniorTV Crownduit Siklu Communication CSC ServiceWorks Speedcast Connect DASAN Zhone Solutions Spot On Networks Davis, Craig & Taylor Summit Broadband Dell Suttle DirecPath, GigaMonster The Broadband Group DISH Network Toner Cable Display Systems International Verizon Communications, Dura-Line Verizon Enhanced Communities Elauwit Networks ViewTEQ EnGenius Technologies Walker and Associates Everywhere Wireless Wave Broadband, Wave G Foxcom Worth Telecom Advisors Frontier Communications WOW! GLDS ZCorum Google Fiber ZeeVee 16 | BROADBAND COMMUNITIES | www.broadbandcommunities.com | OCTOBER 2016 3M Company Communication Technologies Alpha Technologies www.3m.com/telecom www.alpha.com 3M specializes in fast and easy connectivity for in-building Alpha’s line of power products, which includes standby, non- fiber, copper and coax networks - everything from building standby and uninterruptible power supplies, surge suppressors, entrance terminals to frames to pathways and connectors. enclosures, batteries and powering accessories, is widely used in cable TV, communications and data networks worldwide. The company also provides construction and design services. ADTRAN www.adtran.com Altice USA ADTRAN is a supplier of IP/Ethernet-based products that are www.altice.net used throughout the global communications infrastructure, both wireline and wireless. It now offers cloud-based network Altice USA, a subsidiary of global communications company management, including for Wi-Fi. Altice Group, provides residential and business services to more than 4.6 million customers across 20 states and offers digital cable television, high-speed internet, voice, Wi-Fi and Advanced Media Technologies data products and services. It includes the Optimum and www.goamt.com Suddenlink brands. AMT is a value-added reseller with a complete line of RF and fiber distribution, video, data, IP and HDTV products.In AT&T addition to providing technical support for RF and IP video www.att.com/communities, directvformultifamily.com/ distribution systems, AMT provides turnkey solutions for digital TV headends, CMTS and VoIP deployments. AT&T is the largest provider of pay TV in the United States and the world. Its all-fiber network delivers internet speeds up to 1 Gbps to more than 500,000 MDU units in fast-growing Advanced Multimedia metro areas. Through DIRECTV, AT&T provides centralized www.advancedmultimediacom.com distribution of satellite video to MDUs over any wiring scheme, both inside and outside AT&T’s wireline footprint. Advanced Multimedia provides consulting services to owners, developers and managers of apartments and condominiums. Services include
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