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...
Occam GPON gear coming in Q2
By: By Ed Gubbins
Occam Networks plans to start shipping its first gigabit passive optical networking (GPON) gear in the second quarter, benefiting from an acquisition it made last year...
Knology studies triple-play customer loyalty
By: By Sarah Reedy
As Knology fights to climb out of the red this year, the rural triple-play provider will spend much of 2008 striking a balance between competitive pricing and increasing average revenue per user on its bundle. The company has learned in recent years that bundled services don’t just increase customer ARPU, they increase customer retention...
Ekinops adds GigE rings to optical transport
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ekinops is beefing up its optical transport platform with ring-based Ethernet capabilities as the French vendor works toward a larger presence in the United States...
Video quality major issue for IPTV, study says
By: By Carol Wilson
A new study, commissioned by a company that provides quality monitoring, identifies video quality as critical to the growth and success of IPTV and reports service providers don’t always have the tools they need to monitor quality...
Amedia Networks ceases operations
By: By Ed Gubbins
Amedia Networks ceased all operations last week, the company has disclosed in regulatory filings...
New box brings open IPTV home
By: By Carol Wilson
A Dutch company is trying to bring IPTV to the masses over the Internet via a business model that uses corporate sponsorships to subsidize distribution of a key piece of hardware that ties together Internet video with existing video products...
New face in space
By: By Ed Gubbins
After building the ground infrastructure for satellite broadband provider WildBlue, ViaSat believes it's learned enough about the business to voyage into space itself...
Hands on the home
By: By Mark Donahue
Residential gateways, IP set-top boxes, voice-over-IP terminals -- and soon you can add femtocell and WiMAX base stations. The list of customer premises equipment is growing, both in number and complexity, as service providers roll out richer services to more people...
Mixing satellite TV into the wireline triple-play
By: By Sarah Reedy
Where terrestrial triple-play services are not economical (in rural areas, for example), the lingering question for telcos becomes: How can they seamlessly integrate a partner’s satellite TV service with their own terrestrial services such as video-on-demand (VOD)?...
Video sales may stumble on customer service woes
By: By Carol Wilson
Telecom service providers in a rush to sell new video services could stumble badly if they don’t work harder to properly set customer expectations and do a better job of helping customers make the transition, a customer service consultant is warning...
What MS+Yahoo means for service providers
By: By Rich Karpinski
If the telecom and Web worlds are merging, then a mega-merger on one side -- Microsoft’s proposed $44.6 billion acquisition of Yahoo -- surely affects the other. But how?...
