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...
ECI Telecom introduces new broadband access features
By: By Sarah Reedy
ECI Telecom, the Israeli equipment vendor, today introduced new broadband access features to its Hi-FOCuS-5 Multi-Service Access Node product line, aimed at enhancing IPTV and video services...
Interop test bed gets permanent home
By: By Tim McElligott
The MultiService Forum launched a permanent test bed last week at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory ...
Dolby has message for IPTV players
By: By Carol Wilson
Dolby Laboratories doesn’t sell anything directly to telecom service providers, but the well-known creator of high-quality audio technology is trying to get a message across to those who would offer IPTV...
AT&T aims for 10,000 IPTV installs per week
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T has reduced the average installation time for its U-verse IPTV service by 13% in the past month, according to Ralph de la Vega, the carrier’s group president of regional telecommunications and entertainment...
RipCode transcodes long-tail on-demand video
By: By Sarah Reedy
RipCode, the Texas-based video equipment manufacturer, today announced the availability of its RipCode V4 video transcoding appliance, which delivers on-demand video content to any viewing medium, while reducing server hardware, storage and energy use. RipCode also released the name of its first client – MySpace, which recently completed a trial run with the company...
Muvee and Orca bring Live Photos to IPTV
By: By Sarah Reedy
A picture may be worth 1000 words, but when not presented well, it is practically worthless. This is the logic behind Muvee’s automatic movie-making application Live Photos, now available over IPTV platforms in partnership with middleware provider Orca Interactive...
The climb on uncertain ground
By: By Carol Wilson
The competitive landscape is still shifting, even as bandwidth demand grows and consolidation continues...
Fujitsu takes rural telcos optical
By: By Tim McElligott
Fujitsu Network Communications announced two deployments of its optical gear with rural independent operating companies this week...
Harmonic debuts new encoder, wins DirecTV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Video solution provider Harmonic today introduced the Ion AVC encoder, the latest in its family of DiviCom compression solutions...
Brix adds IPTV monitoring
By: By Carol Wilson
Brix Networks announced today that it has added continual monitoring of video streams to its BrixVision Internet protocol television (IPTV) portfolio, enabling service providers to get real-time information on the customer experience...
In the Spotlight: Jeff Weber, AT&T
By: By Ed Gubbins
At a panel discussion on the future of video services at the NXTcomm trade show in Chicago last Tuesday, Jeff Weber, AT&T’s vice president of video products, fielded questions on a variety of IPTV topics, bringing his own experience to bear as a telco video veteran...
Integra5 touts Minerva, SeaChange deals
By: By Carol Wilson
Integra5 today announced two separate deals with makers of IPTV middleware to get its converged services platform more widely deployed...
ATIS releases IPTV standard
By: By Carol Wilson
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Standards today released a high-level architectural standard for IPTV that has been developed by its IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF)...
UTStarcom finds China fit
By: By Carol Wilson
Given the growing attention paid to Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei on the global stage, it is surprising that a California-based company, UTStarcom, is the leading IPTV vendor in China, a market where the technology is now moving into scaled deployments...
IPTV lessons from China
By: By Carol Wilson
On the surface--and even several layers down--there appears to be very little about the Chinese IPTV market that applies to the U.S. After all, the Chinese companies that are delivering IPTV are all government-owned...
China IPTV market ready to bust out?
By: By Carol Wilson
HANGZHOU, China--The co-founder of a leading Chinese telecom equipment vendor is predicting that China soon will be the largest IPTV market in the world, with as many as 1 million subscribers by year’s end, because it has overcome the significant barriers to deployment of the new technology...
How to unlock IPTV’s potential
By: By Christine Heckart, Microsoft TV
Today, with widespread global deployments of IPTV underway, the television is poised to finally join the IP networking revolution. This transformation will not occur overnight. If you map out and predict the evolution of the IPTV market, you can discern three distinct phases, each of which will take us one step closer to unlocking the potential of TV and creating new connected and personalized experiences...
IneoQuest jumps on wireless video quality
By: By Tim McElligott
Following up on the success of its Video Quality Management System, IneoQuest Technologies this week introduced a new system for reducing network operational expenses related to video deployments that uses multi-dimensional monitoring and analysis technology...
HP, Kasenna announce IPTV scalability benchmark
By: By Carol Wilson
IPTV software provider Kasenna announced today that it has teamed with HP and Intel to successfully prove scalability of its Portal TV product suite to support one million customers. The benchmark testing is intended to show the Kasenna system, used with HP servers and Intel silicon, can support a large IPTV rollout...
Portugal’s Sonaecom unwires IPTV
By: By Dan O'Shea
Sonaecom, Portugal’s second-largest telecommunications provider, is deploying an 802.11b/g in-home wireless multimedia distribution system from Ruckus Wireless to support its Clix SmarTV IPTV service...
In the Spotlight: Verizon CTO Mark Wegleitner
By: By Ed Gubbins
At the Optical Fiber Communications conference this week, Verizon Communications named the first two locations it will commercially deploy gigabit passive optical networks (GPON)--a higher-speed version of its current fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology. Mark Wegleitner, the carrier’s chief technology officer and senior vice president of technology and network planning, spoke with Telephony’s Ed Gubbins about Verizon’s future migrations to GPON, IPTV and in-home customer premises devices...
VON: BT brings 21st Century to U.S.
By: By Carol Wilson
SAN JOSE: The British are coming again, and this time they are planning to help cable companies better compete for larger business companies and aid smaller service providers make the leap to an all-IP world...
