TelcoTV: Tandberg TV aims new transcoder at telcos
By: By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Tandberg Television announced this week at the TelcoTV show an iPlex-based transcoding product specifically geared towards the telco industry...
TelcoTV: MetaSwitch, Minerva team on IPTV apps
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Middleware maker Minerva and softswitch/applications vendor MetaSwitch have teamed up to demonstrate rapid delivery of new applications over an IPTV platform, using existing IP tools...
TelcoTV: DSL Forum restructures spec releases
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--The DSL Forum, a group that has grown beyond its DSL roots into broadband deployment, today unwrapped a new structure for its work and a Release 2.0 version of its industry benchmarks and milestones...
TelcoTV: Spirent unveils IPTV QoE field tester
By: By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Spirent Communications unveiled a handheld field tester for triple play networks and services this week at the TelcoTV show...
TelcoTV: IP Prime adds three rural telcos
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--In the latest in its series of coming-out parties, IP-Prime announced three new telco customers for its IPTV service here at the TelcoTV show today...
TelcoTV: Telcos need to innovate in packaging
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Telephone companies getting into the video business need to capitalize on the fact that they don’t have a history in the industry and develop packaging and pricing of video services that is different from cable, the head of Starz advised today...
TelcoTV: AT&T previews IPTV’s future
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Based on Peter Hill’s preview of what AT&T Labs has in store for IPTV, most of its new content draws heavily on the ‘IP’ part of the product...
TelcoTV: Calix, Microsoft team on IPTV
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Calix announced this morning that it has established a licensing relationship with Microsoft that will enable its technology to interoperate with the Microsoft platform...
TelcoTV: CEOs share IPTV lessons learned
By: By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Transforming a company from a traditional telco into a modern converged communications and entertainment provider is no small task, but you don’t need to tell this to the CEOs who are already taking their companies through the revolution...
CTIA: Ballmer talks device management
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SAN FRANCISCO--Steve Ballmer kicked off the IT portion of CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment yesterday, but the Microsoft CEO espoused more than an enterprise vision for mobility in his opening keynote...
Infinera weans itself from Level 3
By: By Ed Gubbins
Infinera grew less dependent on its largest customer, Level 3 Communications, in the third quarter, thanks to a growing roster of other customers, including Cox Communications, XO Communications and 360Networks...
TelcoTV: Cox exec enters lions’ den
By: By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications’ Steve Necessary ventured into the lion’s den Tuesday afternoon, as a cable executive at an IPTV conference...
TelcoTV: Motorola says goodbye to traditional TV scheduling
By: By Sarah Reedy
Forty-two percent of video-on-demand viewers believe that in 10 years time, traditional TV scheduling will no longer exist, said Andy Li, director of engineering for Motorola’s On Demand Solutions, today at TelcoTV. This, in short, is Motorola’s vision...
CTIA: Microsoft won’t bid for 700 MHz
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft will not participate in the upcoming 700 MHz auction, which will distribute former UHF TV channels to wireless operators for broadband services, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said today at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show....
In the Spotlight: Juniper Networks' Stephen Elop
By: By Ed Gubbins
Stephen Elop joined Juniper Networks in January in the newly created post of chief operating officer. Formerly at Adobe Systems through its acquisition of Macromedia (where he was CEO), Elop spearheaded a sweeping internal overhaul of Juniper this year. He spoke to Telephony earlier this month about the changes...
Verizon’s FiOS gets 20-20 vision
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Communications today launched a symmetric 20 Mb/s service over its FiOS network, setting a new industry standard for speed and addressing the growing need for upstream bandwidth to accommodate user-generated content...
TelcoTV: Watching TV remains the killer app
By: By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Despite the many interpretations of the term “interactive television,” TV-watching remains the core experience that consumers want more of, according to Dave Grubb, vice president of business development for Motorola, at today’s TelcoTV Motorola workshop...
Cisco pounces on Navini, enters WiMAX market
By: By Kevin Fitchard
After weeks of speculation on a possible WiMAX acquisition, Cisco Systems today announced it would buy Navini Networks and its adaptive beamforming technology for $330 million...
AT&T “approaching” 10,000 IPTV installs per week
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T nearly doubled the weekly installation rate of its U-verse IPTV service in the third quarter, the company announced along with its quarterly earnings today...
CTIA: OpenMarket keeping operators in value chain
By: By Tim McElligott
From CTIA’s Wireless IT and Entertainment event this week, OpenMarket, a subsidiary of Amdocs, introduced a new release of its messaging and financial processing platform that it said can make operators’ billing and payment systems as good or better than the smooth-running credit card transaction network...
Verizon launches global satellite service
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business today announced a new portable satellite service aimed at letting multinational businesses carry their communications with them...
CTIA: AT&T downloads Napster
By: By Kevin Fitchard
SAN FRANCISCO--AT&T is extending its relationship with online music service Napster to include over-the-air full-track music downloads, adding the final missing piece to AT&T’s comprehensive music strategy...
ADC buys in-building network firm LGC
By: By Kevin Fitchard
ADC Telecommunications has agreed to buy in-building wireless equipment maker LGC Wireless for $169 million in cash, the two companies said today, adding LGC’s indoor radio and base station solutions to ADC’s IP radio access network portfolio...
TelcoTV: New video content, STB player emerges
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--A new company has emerged, promising to give telecom service providers relatively easy entry into video services using a combination of wireless and wireline access and specially designed consumer equipment...
Nominum puts some gravitas in Navitas
By: By Tim McElligott
Nominum continues to evolve ENUM from a database application to a centerpiece of the IP multimedia subsystem and pre-IMS architecture, and advanced that strategy this week with a new release of its Navitas IP application routing directory...
MFA Forum becomes IP/MPLS Forum
By: By Carol Wilson
The MFA Forum, a group formed from the merger of three other groups – the ATM Forum, the Frame Relay Forum and the MPLS Forum – is changing its name once more and sharpening its focus...
DPI gets ROI tool
By: By Carol Wilson
Deep packet inspection (DPI) has been used to detect and manage peer-to-peer traffic in the network but is now moving into more mainstream usage as a means of prioritizing traffic to support more advanced services...
Render defends his FTTH data
By: By Ed Gubbins
Michael Render, president of RVA Market Research and Consulting, is defending the data in his most recent fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) report following questions from another analyst about its accuracy...
Seismic shift in competition?
By: By Carol Wilson
The net effect of the recent FCC decision granting AT&T the right not to resell packetized and broadband services will be fewer service options for business customers, say competitive service providers...
Verizon pursues P2P video
By: By Ed Gubbins
When Verizon's chief technology officer Mark Wegleitner spoke at Telephony LIVE this month about the promise of peer-to-peer networking for on-demand video distribution, he acknowledged the irony of a longtime opponent of piracy embracing P2P video-on-demand...
