VON: HD over copper a “non-issue” for AT&T
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--AT&T will have no problems doing multiple streams of high-definition (HD) video over its U-verse network at scale, Jeff Weber, vice president of products and strategies at AT&T operations, asserted in a speech here at the VON show today...
Continuous Computing aims to speed time to market
By: By Carol Wilson
Continuous Computing today announced a new family of systems that integrate Trillium software and Advanced TCA hardware, along with a unified management system, to enable telecom equipment manufacturers to more rapidly develop solutions for IPTV, security and mobility...
VON: Defining differentiation, redefining video
By: By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--Differentiation in the IPTV space is largely a factor of consumer demand in each particular market. This was the consensus of a panel of two industry analysts and the director of international marketing for UTStarcom at Telephony’s IPTV Workshop today in Boston...
VON: IPTV providers forced to prove ‘quality of experience’
By: By Carol Wilson
BOSTON--Service providers once thought building networks with 99.999% reliability was all they needed to do, until delivering data services required them to also offer quality of service. Now IPTV is pushing them even further, requiring service providers to deliver quality of experience (QoE), Tektronix Vice President of Marketing Lyn Cantor told a Telephony IPTV Workshop audience here today...
TelcoTV: Reporters’ Notebook
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--AT&T is constantly bombarded with questions about the capacity of its U-verse network, given that it will rely on fiber-to-the-node technology and copper connections into the home...
TelcoTV: Comverse builds converged IPTV apps
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Comverse is not the first name that pops to mind when you think of IPTV, but the company does, in fact, have a history in the consumer video business, having developed the user interface for LodgeNet and other hotel video services, as well as being well-established in wireless applications, including ring tones, messaging and more...
TelcoTV: NetInsight offers terrestrially shared head-ends
By: By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--In response to a trend in the market for virtual headends to be shared among operators in order to cut costs, NetInsight has introduced the Nimbra multi-service IPTV platform, which enables headend operators to aggregate and distribute next-generation services over terrestrial networks...
TelcoTV: Tandberg TV aims new transcoder at telcos
By: By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Tandberg Television announced this week at the TelcoTV show an iPlex-based transcoding product specifically geared towards the telco industry...
TelcoTV: MetaSwitch, Minerva team on IPTV apps
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Middleware maker Minerva and softswitch/applications vendor MetaSwitch have teamed up to demonstrate rapid delivery of new applications over an IPTV platform, using existing IP tools...
TelcoTV: Spirent unveils IPTV QoE field tester
By: By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Spirent Communications unveiled a handheld field tester for triple play networks and services this week at the TelcoTV show...
TelcoTV: IP Prime adds three rural telcos
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--In the latest in its series of coming-out parties, IP-Prime announced three new telco customers for its IPTV service here at the TelcoTV show today...
TelcoTV: Telcos need to innovate in packaging
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Telephone companies getting into the video business need to capitalize on the fact that they don’t have a history in the industry and develop packaging and pricing of video services that is different from cable, the head of Starz advised today...
TelcoTV: AT&T previews IPTV’s future
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Based on Peter Hill’s preview of what AT&T Labs has in store for IPTV, most of its new content draws heavily on the ‘IP’ part of the product...
TelcoTV: Calix, Microsoft team on IPTV
By: By Carol Wilson
ATLANTA--Calix announced this morning that it has established a licensing relationship with Microsoft that will enable its technology to interoperate with the Microsoft platform...
TelcoTV: CEOs share IPTV lessons learned
By: By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Transforming a company from a traditional telco into a modern converged communications and entertainment provider is no small task, but you don’t need to tell this to the CEOs who are already taking their companies through the revolution...
TelcoTV: Cox exec enters lions’ den
By: By Carol Wilson
Cox Communications’ Steve Necessary ventured into the lion’s den Tuesday afternoon, as a cable executive at an IPTV conference...
TelcoTV: Motorola says goodbye to traditional TV scheduling
By: By Sarah Reedy
Forty-two percent of video-on-demand viewers believe that in 10 years time, traditional TV scheduling will no longer exist, said Andy Li, director of engineering for Motorola’s On Demand Solutions, today at TelcoTV. This, in short, is Motorola’s vision...
TelcoTV: Watching TV remains the killer app
By: By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Despite the many interpretations of the term “interactive television,” TV-watching remains the core experience that consumers want more of, according to Dave Grubb, vice president of business development for Motorola, at today’s TelcoTV Motorola workshop...
AT&T “approaching” 10,000 IPTV installs per week
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T nearly doubled the weekly installation rate of its U-verse IPTV service in the third quarter, the company announced along with its quarterly earnings today...
Q&A: In-Stat's Michelle Abraham
Michelle Abraham, analyst for In-Stat, talks with Associate Editor Sarah Reedy about a key trend in Internet TV and what telco service providers are doing about it...
IPTV takes baby steps to be different
By: By Carol Wilson
IPTV today is just beginning to reach U.S. households in major metro areas, but it is already delivering more than entertainment...
In the Spotlight: Michael Inouye, In-Stat
By: By Sarah Reedy
In-Stat analyst Michael Inouye shares his thoughts on the changing nature of online video and the unbundling of the television experience as a whole...
Microsoft TV signs first U.S. indie
By: By Carol Wilson
Microsoft TV, the preferred brand of many larger telecom incumbents worldwide, has signed its first U.S. independent telco customer, nTelos...
AT&T to sue over Conn. video franchise
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T will file a lawsuit challenging the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control’s decision not to grant the company a statewide video franchise for its U-verse service, a company spokeswoman confirmed today...
Eagle Broadband sheds IPTV STB business
By: By Sarah Reedy
Nighthawk Systems today announced that it has purchased the IPTV set-top box business assets of Eagle Broadband for $4.75 million...
