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TelcoTV: NSN unveils open IPTV platform
By Carol Wilson
Nokia Siemens Networks today unveiled its new approach to the IPTV market, an open platform designed to attract third-party applications developers...
CES: Enter mobile TV technology No. 3
By Kevin Fitchard
If FLO and DVB-H weren’t enough, a new mobile TV broadcast technology has emerged on the already crowded scene...
CES: Microsoft celebrates IPTV success, adds apps
By Sarah Reedy
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show this week with encouraging news for skeptical IPTV followers...
Content, quality, convergence drive IPTV
By Sarah Reedy
Telephony Associate Editor Sarah Reedy spoke to Ervin Leibovici, chief executive officer of content delivery provider BitBand, to get his perspective on the trends that will drive IPTV in 2008...
Qwest not taking IPTV bait
By Carol Wilson
Qwest Communications will invest an extra $300 million in capital to build fiber-to-the-node networks to reach 1.5 million homes in 20 markets but is not planning to deliver IPTV service over those networks, Qwest Chairman and CEO Ed Mueller told the investment community today...
AT&T CEO looks ahead to the new year
By Carol Wilson
AT&T is seeing unprecedented growth in bandwidth demand and has transformed itself to capitalize on that trend with a seamless, IP-based global network, the company’s chairman and Chief Executive Officer told the AT&T Investor Day audience this morning...
AT&T hits 40Gig coast to coast
By Carol Wilson
AT&T today said it has expanded to 40 Gb/s capacity on more than 50,000 miles of its IP/MPLS national network, as part of the latest push to meet growing demand for online video and other IP-based traffic...
LTE--It’s not just VZW’s network, it’s Verizon’s
By Kevin Fitchard
Throughout its short history, Verizon Communications has kept its wireline business separated from its wireless business. Last week, however, when the companies announced their plans with Vodafone to jointly pursue Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a next-generation network technology, the name on the press release didn’t have a ‘Wireless’ tacked to its end...
IP Prime readies MPEG-2 networks for ‘HD tsunami’
By Sarah Reedy
IP Prime developer SES Americom today announced the general availability of its MPEG-4 high-definition television service, the IP-Prime HD-4...
IBM: Security linked to NGN rollouts
By Tim McElligott
Bolstered by the frame-of-reference to a previous survey, IBM said today that carriers around the world are starting to see security for IP-based services less as a hindrance to service rollout and more as an opportunity to provide security services to its customer base. They just don’t all have a plan for how to realize it...
MultiService Forum adds IPTV to GMI 2008
By Sarah Reedy
The MultiService Forum today announced the details of the Global MSF Interoperability event, GMI 2008, an event for multi-vendor interoperability testing for end-to-end practical network deployment...
Microsoft: IPTV advantages come to market
By Carol Wilson
Lower set-top costs and an open developers' environment are among the benefits...
Television collision
By Sarah Reedy
The consensus at both the TelcoTV show in Atlanta and Telephony's IPTV Workshop last week in Boston was that the worlds of Web TV and IPTV are moving from complementary to converged...
VON: Tektronix offers IPTV video monitoring
By Sarah Reedy
BOSTON--As consumers increasingly demand that content be transferable from the television set to the PC to the mobile phone, the importance of network-wide video monitoring for IPTV is increasing in importance as well, according to Mike Humes, product manager for Tektronix...
VON: HD over copper a “non-issue” for AT&T
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 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: IPTV providers forced to prove ‘quality of experience’
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 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 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 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 Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Tandberg Television announced this week at the TelcoTV show an iPlex-based transcoding product specifically geared towards the telco industry...
TelcoTV: Spirent unveils IPTV QoE field tester
By Sarah Reedy
ATLANTA--Spirent Communications unveiled a handheld field tester for triple play networks and services this week at the TelcoTV show...
TelcoTV: AT&T previews IPTV’s future
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: CEOs share IPTV lessons learned
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 Carol Wilson
Cox Communications’ Steve Necessary ventured into the lion’s den Tuesday afternoon, as a cable executive at an IPTV conference...
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