TDG: Telcos preferred Triple Play provider
By Carol Wilson
The Diffusion Group says telephone companies hold a slim lead over cable when it comes to consumer preferences for buying bundled voice, data and video services, and with some price advantages, could be a disruptive force in the video entertainment world....
Globalcomm: Agere targets service providers
By Dan O'Shea
CHICAGO--Agere Systems, spun off from Lucent Technologies in 2002 to focus on the network subsystem, integrated circuits and enterprise computing components that carrier-focused Lucent wasn’t targeting, showed up at Globalcomm 2006 this week ready to grab the attention of carriers...
Globalcomm: Lucent unveils Acuity
By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--Lucent Technologies unveiled two new products this week aimed at helping carriers manage the quality of packet-based services such as IPTV, particularly when blended with others such as voice...
Globalcomm: NDS expands IPTV product offering
by Carol Wilson
Globalcomm: Move on video quickly, Pinon advises
by Carol Wilson
IP Summit: Personalized interaction the key to IPTV
By Glenn Bischoff
CHICAGO--The key to successful provisioning of IPTV services will lie in the service provider’s ability to deliver to its customers personalized interaction that replicates what they are currently experiencing on their computers, according to a panel that spoke at the 2006 IP Summit, co-sponsored by Telephony magazine and GlobalComm 2006...
Globalcomm: Mobile users want IPTV capabilities
by Sarah Reedy
Globalcomm: Broadwing beefs up global, video offers
by Carol Wilson
IP Summit Keynote: IPTV has great potential
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 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 Carol Wilson
Alcatel, HP and Microsoft collaborate on IPTV
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. ...
The unwired side of IPTV
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 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 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)"...
IPTV in the big picture
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 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 Tim McElligott
Chances are Albany Mutual Telephone could show baseball's first triple play viewed over triple-play service...
IPTV tests quality theories
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...
Nortel talks R&D, margin strategy
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 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 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 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 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 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. ...
