The home network, rewired
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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....
An MPEG alternative
Ed Gubbins
Rural telcos have a particular dilemma in trying to deliver video to their customers: namely, the threat of signal degradation as video traffic treks across the long copper loops that span the lonesome prairies...
Content, set-top stars align for MPEG-4 debut
By Carol Wilson
The MPEG-4 clouds are about to part for IPTV deployment by independent telcos...
Texas telco first to roll out NRTC IPTV
By Ed Gubbins
Valley Telephone Cooperative (VTCI), a rural telco based in Raymondville, Texas, will become the first telco co-op to roll out IPTV service using a turnkey video offering provided by the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC)...
Second time around IPTV Warwick goes with Pannaway
By Tim McElligott
As an early player in VDSL technology, Warwick Valley Telephone Co. learned important lessons about its application and limitations. ...
AT&T's U-verse hits the streets in San Antonio
By Carol Wilson
AT&T has started the commercial launch of its U-verse IPTV service, beginning today in San Antonio. ...
AT&T, Cisco invest in IPTV startup
By Ed Gubbins
AT&T and Cisco Systems led the latest round of investment in Akimbo Systems, a startup that delivers on-demand video content. ...
IPTV, youth key telco goals
By Stephanie Dell
The gap to offer video services is narrowing, according to the third annual Telephony and Tellabs informal poll of attendees at Globalcomm...
Experts tout IPTV but advise caution
By Ed Gubbins
At Globalcomm 2006, a host of industry experts illuminated the path to competitive IPTV offerings but cautioned carriers against rushing down the path too quickly...
AT&T uses Globalcomm to outline bandwidth plans
By Carol Wilson
One of the real question marks surrounding the Globalcomm 2006 trade show in Chicago this month was the participation of service providers, now that USTelecom, the major service provider organization, is running a separate trade show in March...
The Net effect of consolidation
By Carol Wilson
Telecom will have a new look as mergers like last week's Nokia/Siemens deal take hold, but is it better?...
AT&T announces largest FTTP build
By Carol Wilson
AT&T today announced its largest fiber-to-the-premises network build-out to date, reaching a 20,000-home master-planned community near Houston, as part of Project Lightspeed....
In the Spotlight: George Riedel, Chief Strategy Officer, Nortel Networks
By Ed Gubbins
George Riedel, a former Juniper Networks executive, was named Nortel Networks’ chief strategy officer in February as part of a thorough senior-management housecleaning effort conducted by Mike Zafirovski, who became Nortel’s CEO last November. ...
Nortel offers comprehensive security program
By Carol Wilson
Nortel is expanding its security services portfolio, capitalizing on its networking expertise to offer service providers and enterprise customers consulting service in the security arena, along with a managed service offering and security compliance services. ...
Verizon, PBS reach digital multicast deal
By Carol Wilson
Verizon will carry the digital programming of public broadcasting, under an agreement announced at a Washington press conference this morning by Verizon, the Association of Public Television Stations and PBS...
