Verizon touts FiOS market, cost-cutting success 

By: By Carol Wilson

Verizon today issued its own report card for its FiOS fiber-to-the-premises network and services, seeking to show the investment community that the $18 billion, six-year investment strategy deserves an ‘A.’...

Report: Cable bundles a big triumph 

By: By Carol Wilson

Cable service bundles are not only luring telephone service customers, but they have helped stem the tide of video customers to satellite services...

Motorola acquires another VOD vendor 

Motorola today announced another acquisition meant to bolster its video-on-demand (VOD) portfolio today, purchasing software vendor Vertasent for an undisclosed sum. ...

A Telephony Podcast: Fall VON Recap 

This year’s Fall VON show expanded on its traditional focus on voice over IP to encompass video, in the form of both IPTV (the topic of Telephony’s IPTV Workshop at the show) and video on the Net. Telephony’s Carol Wilson delineates the two and analyzes the future of both IP video and VoIP in the service provider sector...

Fingerprint-based IPTV remote control debuts 

By: By Joan Engebretson

Service providers developing the product road map for their IPTV services recognize that the user interface will play a critical role in how the offers are accepted. Joining the wealth of user interface options is a remote control platform announced this month by European manufacturer Ruwido that uses family members’ fingerprints to control system operation...

AT&T inks first cable content deal 

By: By Carol Wilson

AT&T and Comcast have signed a distribution deal that will enable AT&T to deliver Comcast video channels over its U-verse IPTV service...

VON: Vertek’s new MBA program no sheepskin 

By: By Tim McElligott

BOSTON--To be successful in business often requires an MBA degree, but at Fall 2006 VON, Vertek introduced an MBA program for business partnerships. The hosted Managed Business Assurance program ensures the profitability and viability of partnerships formed for the delivery of new digital content services...

VON: Start-up hopes to be more than a blip 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--A New York-based start-up is trying to get ahead of the video-on-the-Internet wave, hoping not to get swamped...

VON: TV over IP about to explode 

By: By Carol Wilson

BOSTON--While telecom service providers scramble to launch IPTV, the TV over the Internet movement is taking off on its own, promising to bring diverse programming to PCs and television sets everywhere. So hot is TV over IP that it took over the opening keynote session of the VON conference...

A TelephonyOnline Podcast: IPTV and Consumer Habit 

TelephonyOnline talks to Neale Martin, an industry futurist and a keynote speaker at Telephony’s IPTV Workshop next week at VON in Boston, about consumer behavior and how it could impact the introduction of IPTV. Hear Martin’s views on how what service providers need to do to make their video offerings different...

Homemade comparison: cable versus IPTV 

By: By Carol Wilson

An industry public relations professional who happens to be part of AT&T’s U-verse rollout in San Antonio has opened the doors of his home to the world, offering a real-life comparison of IPTV and digital cable....

Cable gains ground while IPTV stalls 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Strong revenue and earnings growth in the second quarter suggests bright near-term prospects for cable companies in their war against the Bells, Merrill Lynch wrote in a research note released today...

Cisco buys Arroyo Video Solutions 

By: By Carol Wilson

Cisco Systems Monday night announced it has acquired Arroyo Video Solutions, a maker of video networking software, as it develops a major video strategy...

Harmonic intros new MPEG-4 encoders 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Harmonic introduced a new MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) standard-definition (SD) encoder today...

In the Spotlight: Diane Smith, Auroras 

By: By Tim McElligott

Diane Smith is CEO of Auroras. Auroras is a start-up that is about to commercially launch its head-end-in-the-sky (HITS) after a trial with 3 Rivers Communications and others. A HITS is a satellite-based content distribution system for IPTV. IPTV content has been hard to come by. Smith talked to Telephony’s Tim McElligott about her company, how she got there and why the time is right for a company like Auroras, even if it is way out in Kalispell, Mont....

The home network, rewired 

By: By Dan O'Shea

IPTV is helping the telecom industry envision a new type of home network involving service to multiple devices and content-sharing between all of them. Yet a single vision for the in-home wiring necessary remains elusive...

Leapstone provides must-have options for IPTV 

By: By Tim McElligott

At a pace of three-to-four software releases per year, five-year old, Somerset, NJ-based Leapstone Systems introduced its latest this week, which includes functionality essential for all U.S.-based IPTV providers: blackout management...

Yankee: Wireless not IPTV-ready yet 

By: By Carol Wilson

Despite the high-cost of installing in-home wiring to support IPTV, service providers aren’t yet ready to trust wireless solutions, according to Yankee Group research....

Yankee: Triple Play a $143 billion opportunity 

By: By Carol Wilson

Cable and telephone companies are chasing about up to $145.3 billion in service revenue as they try to attract new triple play customers over the next three years, according to new research from the Yankee Group. ...

iSuppli: Global IPTV revenue $27 billion by 2010 

By: By Dan O'Shea

Market research firm iSuppli Corp. has released a new report suggesting that worldwide overall IPTV service revenue will hit $27 billion by 2010, and that there will be 63 million IPTV subscribers globally by that year...

Cable's IP push may await 2008 

By: By Carol Wilson

Cable companies are exploring use of IP to offer nteractive TV services, but face economic challenges that could delay that effort until 2008 or after, said Michael Arden, principal analyst and author of the new study, “Worldwide Cable TV Infrastructure, CPE and Services.”...

Ikanos intros new chips for IPTV 

By: By Ed Gubbins

Ikanos Communications introduced a new line of broadband chip sets today that were designed to deliver IPTV and triple-play services...

OPASTCO: IPTV players may need consortium 

By: By Carol Wilson

HOT SPRINGS, Va.--As the number of independent telcos getting into IPTV is booming, the time may be right for a national consortium aimed at helping resolve integration issues and possibly addressing content acquisition, similar to the cable industry’s CableLabs...

AT&T rolls out Homezone 

By: By Dan O'Shea

AT&T, with satellite TV partner EchoStar Communications, began offering its previously announced Homezone broadband service in San Antonio, Texas, and parts of Ohio. ...

OPASTCO: Video not always the answer 

By: By Carol Wilson

HOT SPRINGS, Va.--Video may be the hot topic for many large telecom service providers, but it doesn't always make good business sense for smaller telcos, a couple of industry leaders warned today....