USA not in IPTV Top Ten
By: By Ed Gubbins
The United States is not among the 10 countries with the most IPTV subscribers in the world, new data from Dittberner revealed...
AT&T launches U-verse in Conn.
By: By Dan O'Shea
AT&T today announced that it had launched its fiber-based U-verse TV service in some parts of the Connecticut markets of Hartford, Stamford, New Haven and surrounding communities....
Savvis buy moves Level 3 into content delivery
By: By Dan O'Shea
With five days left in 2006, Level 3 seemed to cap a busy year of acquiring companies with one final deal--a $135 million bid to buy Savvis' content distribution network assets, announced this morning...
Video star breaks out on blip.tv
By: By Carol Wilson
Internet video host blip.tv today is trumpeting one of its first break-out stars. Video blogger Amanda Congdon today is launching a new Web-based TV show with major national sponsors, Dove Cream Oil Bodywash and Paltalk. ...
FCC video rules likely will be challenged
By: By Carol Wilson
The Federal Communications Commission’s new rules for local video franchises are likely to be challenged on two fronts: in the courts by the cable industry and in Congress by the new Democratic leadership....
Motorola acquires Tut Systems
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola has agreed to acquire video systems vendor Tut Systems for $39 million in cash, or $1.15 per share. The move is only the latest acquisition meant to bolster Motorola’s growing presence in the residential video market. ...
Carriers tell IBM security matters
By: By Tim McElligott
More than half of the top-tier carriers attending a recent carrier summit hosted by IBM Internet Security Systems said their security concerns are strong enough to impede their rollout of new IP-based services and the completion of their triple-play strategies for voice, video and data services...
Eagle: Connex buy aids IPTV strategy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Eagle Broadband hopes its acquisition of Connex Services, announced yesterday, will aid its burgeoning IPTV business, a company executive said....
Cisco caches in on IPTV
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems is adding new capabilities to its 7600 series routers to better serve IPTV applications, the company said...
Juniper’s IPTV plans advance
By: By Ed Gubbins
A new software release on Juniper Networks’ SDX-300 Service Deployment System this week is helping fulfill the vendor’s architectural vision for triple-play networks, one that promises more efficient use of networks...
In the Spotlight: Scott Ulsaker, Pioneer Telephone Cooperative
By: By Dan O'Shea
Scott Ulsaker, director of operations at Pioneer, is an old hand at wireless, having worked on AT&T’s Project Angel fixed wireless endeavor. He spoke with Telephony editor in chief Dan O’Shea recently about using Wi-Fi for in-home wiring...
YouTube effect changes IPTV plans
By: By Dan O'Shea
A few thousand carriers and vendors graced the TelcoTV conference and expo earlier this month, and although YouTube wasn't among them, the online network...
The IPTV battle enters the home
By: By Dan O'Shea
The battle of in-home distribution technologies for IPTV continued unabated at this month's Telco TV conference and expo in Dallas. The industry may be...
European Commission OKs Nokia Siemens
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The European Commission today approved the proposed networks joint venture between Nokia and Siemens, clearing the final major regulatory hurdle to creating the second largest network infrastructure in the world...
A Telephony Podcast: TelcoTV Recap
The recent TelcoTV conference in Dallas was the place to be to discuss the deployment status and technology progression of IPTV. Telephony's Ed Gubbins and Dan O'Shea analyze who's who in IPTV, the importance of personalized programming and why YouTube took center stage...
Tut irons out MPEG-4 set-top wrinkles
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tut Systems is working through the kinks that stalled the availability of its MPEG-4 set-top boxes for high-definition television (HDTV). Though the vendor was unable to fulfill orders for those set-tops in the second quarter due to problems with middleware and conditional access functions, those problems are now being resolved, according to multiple sources...
TelcoTV: Eatel deploys Integra5
By: By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--Eatel, a private, independent telco based in Ascension Parish, La., has deployed Integra5’s i5 Converged Service Delivery Platform to support TV-based caller ID and other applications from the vendor’s i-Communicate application suite...
TelcoTV: On becoming a TV star
By: By Jason Meyers
DALLAS--The general session at the TelcoTV conference here offered attendees a glimpse of some of the challenges that small carriers are likely to encounter when they venture into the TV realm...
TelcoTV: Content control conundrum
By: By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--Two general session panels this morning at the TelcoTV conference and expo presented both sides of an IPTV content conundrum: Will carriers maintain “walled garden” approaches to content or more open Internet-inspired attitudes?...
TelcoTV: Content developer acquisitions unlikely
By: By Dan O'Shea
DALLAS--Content company executives for the most part don’t believe in the possibility that telcos could acquire or invest in studios and other content developer to help them create exclusive content for their IPTV efforts...
New VOD duo promises ‘radical’ IPTV content
By: By Ed Gubbins
Mercury Media, the theatrical distributor of “Loose Change,” an infamous documentary exploring September 11 conspiracies, is teaming with video-on-demand (VOD) vendor Aggregator to launch what it calls a “radical” new IPTV content service...
AT&T Homezone goes wide
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today took the wraps off its Homezone service, announcing the integrated DSL/satellite TV home networking service is now available in 12 of its 13 states, the exception being Connecticut...
Swisscom launches Microsoft IPTV
By: By Ed Gubbins
Switzerland’s incumbent telco launched an IPTV service today similar to AT&T’s U-Verse service...
Writing the book on IPTV quality
By: By Dan O'Shea
Service providers now rolling out IPTV services probably would not agree with the notion that they are making it up as they go along, since that would be an insult to the strategists and technicians who have put hours upon years into the ongoing transformation of telcos into video providers. Yet when you consider how the industry is approaching quality of service for IPTV, it's difficult to come away with any other impression, at least at first glance...
IneoQuest fills quality management gap for IP video
By: By Tim McElligott
IneoQuest, a five-year-old test solutions company based in Mansfield, Mass, introduced a premises-based quality assurance solution for IPTV this week as well as an end-to-end video management system...
