:: IPTV News Archive ::
Amino acquires Tilgin for hybrid STBs, European focus
By Sarah Reedy
Amino will target the European market, speed hybrid STB development with Tilgin acquisition ...
STB market to peak in 2012, ABI says
By Sarah Reedy
ABI predicts that STBs will face a gradual decline as embedded solutions, over-the-top providers pose alternatives...
Verizon’s new CDN paves way for P2P
By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications’ announcement of a new content delivery network (CDN) for its users gives the carrier a strong path to using peer-to-peer (P2P) technology in CDNs....
Big-Screen Broadband
By Sarah Reedy
The convergence of the Web and television has long been touted as the real promise of IP, but most service providers have stopped at over-the-top video....
AlcaLu BT deal precursor to more wireline outsourcing
By Rich Karpinski
Vendor's services chief see more network sharing on the horizon too as service providers look to cut costs...
TelcoTV: Ads not mobile TV’s savior, MobiTV president says
By Sarah Reedy
Despite industry talk of advertising as the catalyst to kick-start mobile TV adoption, at least one mobile TV provider isn’t holding its breath. Paul Scanlan, president and co-founder of MobiTV...
TelcoTV: Nagravision another option for independent IPTV
By Carol Wilson
After cutting its teeth on conditional access for cable and satellite operators, Nagravision is offering similar services for IPTV and teaming with fellow Kudelski Group subsidiaries ...
TelcoTV: Thomson exec warns against ‘bells, whistles’ syndrome
By Carol Wilson
The IPTV industry may be on the verge of repeating one of its first mistakes, Thomson Director of Marketing Fabien Maisi warned here at the TelcoTV show. ...
TelcoTV: IPTV content security shakeout ahead, says Verimatrix exec
By Carol Wilson
Verimatrix, an established leader in IPTV content security, used TelcoTV to flex its market muscle and announce a series of new customers including SES Americom’s IP-Prime wholesale distribution service...
TelcoTV: QoE vendors take opposing views of quality monitoring
By Sarah Reedy
Mariner, IneoQuest launch QoE monitoring platforms that start at opposite ends of the network...
TelcoTV: Nortel launches app developer platform
By Sarah Reedy
Nortel announces telepresence win, Web-services-based TV app developer program...
TelcoTV: Zeugma, Roku team on enhanced Net video
By Carol Wilson
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Zeugma Systems, the edge router vendor trying to redefine what intelligence at the edge means in telecom, teamed with Roku here at the Telco TV show...
SezMi completes technical trial of digital video
By Carol Wilson
SezMi, the wholesale video provider looking to partner with telephone companies to deliver IPTV without access network upgrades, announced today the completion of its technical trial...
TelcoTV: Is Vudu carriers' biggest headache or opportunity?
By Sarah Reedy
Vudu exec tells service providers they can ignore it or embrace it, but broadband is changing how video is done...
TelcoTV: AT&T evolves three-screen strategy
By Sarah Reedy
Consumer strategy trumps technology as consumers want entertainment across three screens, AT&T exec says...
TelcoTV: Telcos will revitalize TV, Verizon exec says
By Carol Wilson
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Telephone companies are in the best position to revitalize TV and put customers in charge of what they watch, when they watch it and on what device...
TelcoTV: Comtrend offers ADSL2+, VDSL2 gateway
By Carol Wilson
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Comtrend this week launched a residential gateway device that supports ADSL2+ and VDSL2 services and can serve as a home router on an fiber-to-the-home network ...
TelcoTV: Envivio delivers on mobile TV promise
By Carol Wilson
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Envivio formally announced here at the Telco TV show that its 4Caster C4 Encoder for MPEG-4 video has passed Microsoft Mediaroom’s conformance testing...
TelcoTV: Broadband Forum focuses on IPTV over GPON, bonded DSL
By Sarah Reedy
ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Broadband Forum launched its latest standards, the Broadband Suite Release 3.0, at this week’s TelcoTV conference...
TelcoTV: Telcos need analog turnoff prep, says Tandberg
By Carol Wilson
ANAHEIM, Calif. – While over-the-air TV subscribers in the US need to be preparing for the Feb. 17, 2009 end to analog TV broadcasting...
TelcoTV: Widevine brings DRM to mobile and PC video
By Carol Wilson
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Conditional access provider Widevine is bringing its digital rights management capabilities to mobile video and PC-based viewing as well via a unified content protection platform....
TelcoTV: NSN unveils open IPTV platform
By Carol Wilson
Nokia Siemens Networks today unveiled its new approach to the IPTV market, an open platform designed to attract third-party applications developers...
TelcoTV: Alcatel-Lucent demos IPTV ad insertion
By Carol Wilson
Alcatel-Lucent is using the TelcoTV show to demonstrate what the company is billing as the first complete ad-insertion system for IPTV...
Telco TV: Online video, prime-time TV both growing
By Carol Wilson
Consumers are most interested in using Internet video to catch up on prime-time television shows they missed, according to consumer research by Parks Associates...
TelcoTV: IP-Prime picks up momentum
By Sarah Reedy
Content aggregator has signed 65 telco contracts, totaling commercial rollouts in 31 states...
