Are further splits in Motorola's future?
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola announced Wednesday that it planned to spin off its mobile phone business into a separately traded company, unlocking the value of that division as well as giving new focus to its infrastructure group. But if focusing on core businesses is the goal of Moto’s restructuring, does that mean further subdivisions of the company are waiting?...
U.S. IPTV operators slow to install
By: By Sarah Reedy
North America has the highest overall total average installation times for IPTV, coming in around 5.16 hours in-person, according to a study published this week of the top 60 operators in Asia, Europe and North America...
Telecom well poised to benefit from $70 billion streaming market
By: Carol Wilson
A new Insight Research study says IPTV, along with streaming video and audio, will generate $70 billion in revenue over the next six years, from both network-derived services and content-derived income....
CTIA: Motorola getting jump on CDMA-to-LTE migration
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola today said it has successfully completed a handoff between a CDMA and Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in its labs, thus demonstrating the viability of the two different technologies working in unison on the same flat IP core...
Polycom, Tandberg extend telepresence reach
By: Carol Wilson
Two different video players – Tandberg and Polycom – today announced plans with Microsoft that will enable them to bring higher quality videoconferencing to the desktop....
Telepresence: Ready for its close-up
By: By Dawn Bushaus
Late arrivals and missed connections could be a thing of the past if telepresence continues to gain popularity among high-flying executives...
To IPTV and beyond
By: By Sarah Reedy
IPTV providers are flaunting the potential of IP features and applications, but what's really on the agenda in the near future?...
Pushing copper's speed limits
By: [ BY ED GUBBINS ]
Equipment vendors are discovering new ways to get more bandwidth out of copper access lines...
IPTV opportunity
By: By Mark Donahue
As IPTV Rollouts continue and service providers further sharpen their offerings and advertising campaigns, ...
The view from the living-room couch
By: By Sarah Reedy
As far as customers are concerned it's more about the TV than the IP. Quality service remains the killer app...
Is quality job one?
By: By Carol Wilson
Video quality can make or break IPTV service, but providers may need to think harder about how to ensure they can provide that quality...
Middleware snags stalling HD, DVR rollouts
By: Dawn Bushaus and Sarah Reedy
Shortcomings in middleware are causing headaches among some rural telcos, interfering with their plans to offer high-definition (HD) video and digital video recorder (DVR) services....
More PBT control planes coming soon
By: Ed Gubbins
Though Soapstone Networks took the lead in addressing the market for a control plane to manage Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) networks, it won’t be alone for long. ...
Ixia goes end-to-end on IPTV quality
By: Carol Wilson
Ixia today announced an end-to-end triple-play quality assurance system that the IP performance testing company has been developing with Bell Canada for more than two years. ...
NEC brings IPTV over IMS
By: By Sarah Reedy
In a move to expand its business into international markets, Japenese vendor NEC announced the launch of its IPTV business today. On display at this week’s IPTV World Forum, the end-to-end IPTV platform and video delivery system targets carriers using an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture....
Verimatrix brings HD to the PC
By: Sarah Reedy
IPTV security vendor Verimatrix today released its ViewRight PC Player 2.0 with full digital video recorder (DVR) functionality over the PC. ...
Cisco unveils compact new edge router
By: By Ed Gubbins
Cisco Systems today unveiled a new edge router powered by its own silicon designs, trumpeting the new product’s compact form factor and built-in functionality...
New CEO Gerke vows to build on Embarq’s innovations
By: By Carol Wilson
As the newly named CEO of Embarq, Tom Gerke plans to focus on continuing the momentum Embarq has built selling new products, such as 10 Mb/s Internet access, a video sales portal and fixed-mobile convergence, and continue the company’s recent history as an innovator...
In-home 802.11n upgrades
By: Sarah Reedy
Juniper offers external control plane
By: Ed Gubbins
Privacy matters
In their rush to create more customized services that capitalize on knowing more about consumers, service providers may find themselves forced to slow down and proceed with caution through a veritable minefield of privacy issues. Part 1 of a Telephony staff report on privacy concerns...
VC: Slowdown not a telecom phenomenon
By: By Carol Wilson
Even in uncertain times, venture capitalist Matt Rubins of M/C Venture Partners in Boston is still bullish on mobile broadband, CLEC investments and network infrastructure plays in 2008. Rubins spoke with Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson...
Gearing up for the digital revolution
By: By Sarah Reedy
At this time next year, the world will have gone through a digital revolution, making analog anything a thing of the past. In preparation for going all-digital, consumers are charged with putting together a digital environment that suits their own unique needs. Telecom analyst Carol Ingley felt the impending transition was so important that she started her own company, Media Mogul of the Home, and wrote a how-to book on the subject to be published in April. She shared with Associate News Editor Sarah Reedy why “digital” will be the buzzword of 2009...
TIA study: Economic downturn won’t deter telecom
By: By Sarah Reedy
According to the Telecommunications Industry Association’s “2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast” for the global telecommunications industry, there has been a healthy uptake of telecom services, both at home and abroad, with international markets seeing more growth than domestic markets...
Could targeted ads create an IPTV digital divide?
By: By Ed Gubbins
As IPTV allows for more targeted forms of advertising, it could potentially illuminate differences among demographic groups in varying levels of demand by advertisers. Could that effect create a digital divide similar to the one created in broadband infrastructure? John Reister, chief IPTV architect for BigBand Networks, explains...
