Globalcomm: Mobile users want IPTV capabilities
By: by Sarah Reedy
Globalcomm: Broadwing beefs up global, video offers
By: by Carol Wilson
IP Summit Keynote: IPTV has great potential
By: By Stephanie Dell
CHICAGO--Television will change more in the next five years than it has in the past 50, according to Christine Heckart, general manager of marketing for Microsoft TV, who gave a lunchtime keynote address today at Telephony’s IP Summit, held in conjunction with Globalcomm 2006...
Globalcomm: Ericsson launches IPTV platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO--Ericsson signaled its entrance into IPTV today, announcing an end-to-end IP video platform tightly integrated with its market-leading IMS architecture...
Globalcomm: Juniper makes IPTV push
By: by Carol Wilson
Alcatel, HP and Microsoft collaborate on IPTV
By: By Tim McElligott
By definition ecosystems are diverse, but three big players are forming a global relationship to bring advanced systems to carriers offering triple-play services. ...
IPTV in the big picture
By: By Carol Wilson
If telcos are going to offer more than a me-too service, then IPTV must become part of the service delivery platform that encompasses IMS and wireless convergence...
The most innovative telco in America?
By: By Carol Wilson
Ringgold Telephone is ahead of the game on IPTV, FTTH, MVNOs and just about everything else. But is it winning?...
The other Albany
By: By Tim McElligott
Chances are Albany Mutual Telephone could show baseball's first triple play viewed over triple-play service...
IPTV tests quality theories
By: By Dan O'Shea
Most of the service providers pursuing quality have spent many years honing their ability to deliver and manage voice services to the point where reliability is almost perfect...
The unwired side of IPTV
By: By Dan O'Shea
Mobile TV and IPTV remain parallel market developments for now, but mobile devices may soon begin to bridge the gap...
Fulfilling the promise of IPTV
By: By Ed Gubbins
Telecom providers say IPTV gives them a platform for differentiation from cable video services, but how are early IPTV rollouts delivering on that promise? And what lessons do they contain for how telcos should use IP?...
Accounting for standards in IPTV
By: By Tim McElligott
The best things in life are free. So sang John Lennon in 1963. But this is business. And in business, the song title, rather than its opening line, is more appropriate: "Money (That's What I Want)"...
Nortel talks R&D, margin strategy
By: By Ed Gubbins
Nortel Networks and its CEO Mike Zafirovski (above) gave an update on its plans to overhaul its business today, including how it will distribute research and development spending and how it will raise operating margins...
Re-running the NPVR concept
By: By Dan O'Shea and Vince Vittore
Network-based personal video recording is getting more sophisticated, but licensing is still an issue...
IPTV ready to think big, start small, move fast
By: By Carol Wilson
Major telephone companies must strike a balance between getting IPTV widely deployed and differentiating their product from that of cable companies by packing in the features...
Silver Star gives Even Technologies first telco IPTV deployment
By: By Tim McElligott
Vancouver, Canada-based Even Technologies, along with its U.S. partner Infinite Video Corp. will deliver their jointly developed IPTV system to Freedom, Wyo.'s Silver Star Networks. ...
Lucent lands Telefonica's IPTV platform
By: By Dan O'Shea
Spain's Telefonica has signed an agreement with U.S. vendor Lucent Technologies that will put ongoing development and deployment of Telefonica's Imagenio IPTV middleware platform, which powers the carrier's IPTV services and is being marketed to other carriers, into Lucent's hands...
AT&T Homezone goes Akimbo
By: By Dan O'Shea
AT&T and Akimbo Systems have forged an agreement under which the carrier deliver the vendor's video-on-demand service to subscribers of AT&T’s Homezone TV service, scheduled to launch this summer. ...
Verizon adds Disney soap channel
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon has added a channel for soap opera fans to its exclusive set of Disney channels. Soapnetic, a broadband channel for Disney fans is available exclusively to Verizon broadband customers from Disney-ABC Television Group....
Technologist proposes Net neutrality solution
By: By Carol Wilson
A former chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission is calling for a fact-based solution to the Net Neutrality issue, to be determined by a neutral group of experts, meeting out of the glare of the current hype...
Lehman: IPTV could drive 10% annual capex growth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Research analysts at investment bank Lehman Brothers urged investors to buy more telecom equipment stocks now to take advantage of video deployment trends that will feed growth for at least the next few years...
TELECOMNEXT: Juniper supplies IPTV operational help
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--JuniperNetworks announced at TelecomNext here that it is adding new features to its E320 Broadband Services Router that help service providers tackle some operational hurdles related to launching IPTV services. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Spirent unveils IPTV QoE system
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Spirent Communications announced at TelecomNext here a new solution that it described as a "quality of experience" test system aimed directly at IPTV deployment in which subscriber experience is expected to become a more meaningful quality measurement. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Syndesis builds software foundation for IMS
By: By Tim McElligott
LAS VEGAS--Syndesis launched a solution this week at TelecomNext that addresses the application delivery needs for carriers trying to build an IP multimedia subsystem-based network...
