Verizon adds Disney soap channel
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 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 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 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 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 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...
Study: many don’t understand IPTV
By Vince Vittore
Nearly one half of all consumers in the U.S. and six select European countries don’t know what the term IPTV means, according to a study from Accenture....
TELECOMNEXT: Nortel, Minerva partner
By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Nortel Networks and Minerva Networks here announced the joint development and release of an applications interface that integrates real-time IPTV services with Minerva's iTVManager middleware via Nortel's IP multimedia subsystem architecture. ...
Ruckus finds its Pioneer
By Vince Vittore
Ruckus Wireless announced today that Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, the nation’s third largest co-op, will begin a customer trial of its wireless set-top box technology...
Deutsche Telekom to deploy Microsoft IPTV
By Carol Wilson
Microsoft today announced its second-largest worldwide IPTV customer in Deutsche Telekom AG, which will use Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform over a VDSL network. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Speakers oppose 'Net neutrality laws
By Carol Wilson
LAS VEGAS -- TelecomNext provided a diversity of keynote speakers on its opening day but they all agreed on one issue – Internet neutrality. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Little telecom in TelecomNext
By Tim McElligott
LAS VEGAS--The launch of the event that is supposed to answer the question about where the industry goes from here, TelecomNext, provided an answer in two hours of keynote speeches yesterday when almost 20% of allotted time for hearing directly from the industry’s foremost leaders was consumed by music videos. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Broadwing launches media service
By Carol Wilson
Hoping to ride the booming interest in IPTV, Broadwing today announced a fiber-based real-time media multicast service that enables broadcast and content distribution companies to distribute to multiple locations from its 180-network point of presence....
mPhase puts together “telco starter kit”
By Vince Vittore
mPhase Technologies this week will launch what it’s coined “IPTV in a Box” that packages together virtually everything a carrier would need to launch video service for $500 per subscriber....
Pulver fires up himself at VON
By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Jeff Pulver, CEO of pulver.com, has been called a technology guru by no less than BusinessWeek. But by his own admission this week, as he addressed the throng of 8000 attendees at his VON Conference in San Jose, Calif., when he started his mission to advance voice and video on the Internet 10 years ago, he didn’t have a clue--at least about telecom....
IPTV Survey: Early adopters willing to try service
By Vince Vittore
Telcos hoping to cash in on initial interest in IP-based video services might want to consider a very traditional strategy—discounts, according to a survey by In-Stat and sponsored by Siemens Communications....
NCTA blasts House franchise move, RCN mixed
By Dan O'Shea
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association Thursday blasted the reported agreement among U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee members to issue national video franchise legislation for telcos. Meanwhile, competitive service provider RCN issued its own statement saying it would be happy that cable TV giants are being kept on a short leash, but unhappy with legislation that would allow major telcos to roam free of local video franchising authorities....
OFC: BellSouth Chief Architect warns of HD VOD costs
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM—The optical networking industry needs to solve the economic crunch which carriers are anticipating with the arrival of video-on-demand, BellSouth’s Chief Architect Henry Kafka implored his cohorts this morning at the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference...
OFC: IPTV requires AT&T to deploy 400 ROADM nodes in ’06
By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs)play a crucial role in enabling IPTV, G. Keith Cambron, senior vice president of AT&T Labs, said this morning at the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference....
SkyStream's zBand hones in on MovieBeam
By Vince Vittore
SkyStream announced that MovieBeam is using the vendor’s zBand content delivery platform as part of a renewed push to bring video on demand service to most major metropolitan areas in the U.S. ...
Wisconsin consortium locks down with Latens
By Vince Vittore
Latens Systems said it has landed a deal with Midwest TelNet, a consortium of 13 independent telcos in southwest Wisconsin, to provide its conditional access solution as part of Midwest TelNet’s IPTV service...
Indiana okays state video franchise
Indiana’s General Assembly has become the second in the nation to approve a statewide video franchising process. A bill giving exclusive franchise authority to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission now awaits Gov. Mitch Daniel’s signature....
Canby Telephone comes full circle with a twist on video
By Vince Vittore
In 2001, Canby Telephone Association sold its incumbent cable operation to Willamette Broadband in a transaction that was fairly typical...
BellSouth gets more SupportSoft
By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today announced an extension of its current use of SupportSoft online customer support software to include its broadband wireless services, wireline-wireless integration and its IPTV trial....
