OPASTCO: Video not always the answer
By: By Carol Wilson
HOT SPRINGS, Va.--Video may be the hot topic for many large telecom service providers, but it doesn't always make good business sense for smaller telcos, a couple of industry leaders warned today....
An MPEG alternative
By: Ed Gubbins
Rural telcos have a particular dilemma in trying to deliver video to their customers: namely, the threat of signal degradation as video traffic treks across the long copper loops that span the lonesome prairies...
Content, set-top stars align for MPEG-4 debut
By: By Carol Wilson
The MPEG-4 clouds are about to part for IPTV deployment by independent telcos...
Texas telco first to roll out NRTC IPTV
By: By Ed Gubbins
Valley Telephone Cooperative (VTCI), a rural telco based in Raymondville, Texas, will become the first telco co-op to roll out IPTV service using a turnkey video offering provided by the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC)...
Verizon debuts 100 Meg MoCA routers
By: By Carol Wilson
Most new customers of Verizon’s FiOS service now are being connected using a new home router that can support service at speed up to 100 Megabits per second....
Second time around IPTV Warwick goes with Pannaway
By: By Tim McElligott
As an early player in VDSL technology, Warwick Valley Telephone Co. learned important lessons about its application and limitations. ...
AT&T uses Globalcomm to outline bandwidth plans
By: By Carol Wilson
One of the real question marks surrounding the Globalcomm 2006 trade show in Chicago this month was the participation of service providers, now that USTelecom, the major service provider organization, is running a separate trade show in March...
In the Spotlight: George Riedel, Chief Strategy Officer, Nortel Networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
George Riedel, a former Juniper Networks executive, was named Nortel Networks’ chief strategy officer in February as part of a thorough senior-management housecleaning effort conducted by Mike Zafirovski, who became Nortel’s CEO last November. ...
Globalcomm: Agere targets service providers
By: By Dan O'Shea
CHICAGO--Agere Systems, spun off from Lucent Technologies in 2002 to focus on the network subsystem, integrated circuits and enterprise computing components that carrier-focused Lucent wasn’t targeting, showed up at Globalcomm 2006 this week ready to grab the attention of carriers...
Globalcomm: Lucent unveils Acuity
By: By Ed Gubbins
CHICAGO--Lucent Technologies unveiled two new products this week aimed at helping carriers manage the quality of packet-based services such as IPTV, particularly when blended with others such as voice...
IP Summit Keynote: IPTV has great potential
By: By Stephanie Dell
CHICAGO--Television will change more in the next five years than it has in the past 50, according to Christine Heckart, general manager of marketing for Microsoft TV, who gave a lunchtime keynote address today at Telephony’s IP Summit, held in conjunction with Globalcomm 2006...
Globalcomm: Ericsson launches IPTV platform
By: By Kevin Fitchard
CHICAGO--Ericsson signaled its entrance into IPTV today, announcing an end-to-end IP video platform tightly integrated with its market-leading IMS architecture...
Alcatel, HP and Microsoft collaborate on IPTV
By: By Tim McElligott
By definition ecosystems are diverse, but three big players are forming a global relationship to bring advanced systems to carriers offering triple-play services. ...
Fulfilling the promise of IPTV
By: By Ed Gubbins
Telecom providers say IPTV gives them a platform for differentiation from cable video services, but how are early IPTV rollouts delivering on that promise? And what lessons do they contain for how telcos should use IP?...
IPTV in the big picture
By: By Carol Wilson
If telcos are going to offer more than a me-too service, then IPTV must become part of the service delivery platform that encompasses IMS and wireless convergence...
The most innovative telco in America?
By: By Carol Wilson
Ringgold Telephone is ahead of the game on IPTV, FTTH, MVNOs and just about everything else. But is it winning?...
IPTV tests quality theories
By: By Dan O'Shea
Most of the service providers pursuing quality have spent many years honing their ability to deliver and manage voice services to the point where reliability is almost perfect...
Re-running the NPVR concept
By: By Dan O'Shea and Vince Vittore
Network-based personal video recording is getting more sophisticated, but licensing is still an issue...
Lucent lands Telefonica's IPTV platform
By: By Dan O'Shea
Spain's Telefonica has signed an agreement with U.S. vendor Lucent Technologies that will put ongoing development and deployment of Telefonica's Imagenio IPTV middleware platform, which powers the carrier's IPTV services and is being marketed to other carriers, into Lucent's hands...
AT&T Homezone goes Akimbo
By: By Dan O'Shea
AT&T and Akimbo Systems have forged an agreement under which the carrier deliver the vendor's video-on-demand service to subscribers of AT&T’s Homezone TV service, scheduled to launch this summer. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Juniper supplies IPTV operational help
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--JuniperNetworks announced at TelecomNext here that it is adding new features to its E320 Broadband Services Router that help service providers tackle some operational hurdles related to launching IPTV services. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Spirent unveils IPTV QoE system
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Spirent Communications announced at TelecomNext here a new solution that it described as a "quality of experience" test system aimed directly at IPTV deployment in which subscriber experience is expected to become a more meaningful quality measurement. ...
TELECOMNEXT: Syndesis builds software foundation for IMS
By: By Tim McElligott
LAS VEGAS--Syndesis launched a solution this week at TelecomNext that addresses the application delivery needs for carriers trying to build an IP multimedia subsystem-based network...
TELECOMNEXT: Nortel, Minerva partner
By: By Dan O'Shea
LAS VEGAS--Nortel Networks and Minerva Networks here announced the joint development and release of an applications interface that integrates real-time IPTV services with Minerva's iTVManager middleware via Nortel's IP multimedia subsystem architecture. ...
