Ruckus finds its Pioneer
By: By Vince Vittore
Ruckus Wireless announced today that Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, the nation’s third largest co-op, will begin a customer trial of its wireless set-top box technology...
TELECOMNEXT: Broadwing launches media service
By: By Carol Wilson
Hoping to ride the booming interest in IPTV, Broadwing today announced a fiber-based real-time media multicast service that enables broadcast and content distribution companies to distribute to multiple locations from its 180-network point of presence....
Pulver fires up himself at VON
By: By Tim McElligott
SAN JOSE--Jeff Pulver, CEO of pulver.com, has been called a technology guru by no less than BusinessWeek. But by his own admission this week, as he addressed the throng of 8000 attendees at his VON Conference in San Jose, Calif., when he started his mission to advance voice and video on the Internet 10 years ago, he didn’t have a clue--at least about telecom....
VON: BellSouth exec pitches need for IP service tiers
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth Chief Architect Hank Kafka walked into the lion’s den Tuesday night, attempting in a rapid-fire half-hour technology presentation to convince a skeptical VON crowd that burgeoning video traffic will swamp current IP network capacity and require regulatory freedom for carriers to offer tiered services....
OFC: BellSouth Chief Architect warns of HD VOD costs
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM—The optical networking industry needs to solve the economic crunch which carriers are anticipating with the arrival of video-on-demand, BellSouth’s Chief Architect Henry Kafka implored his cohorts this morning at the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference...
OFC: IPTV requires AT&T to deploy 400 ROADM nodes in ’06
By: By Ed Gubbins
ANAHEIM--Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs)play a crucial role in enabling IPTV, G. Keith Cambron, senior vice president of AT&T Labs, said this morning at the Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference....
Leap of faith
By: By Vince Vittore
Independents are moving to MPEG-4--with or without set-top boxes...
BellSouth gets more SupportSoft
By: By Carol Wilson
BellSouth today announced an extension of its current use of SupportSoft online customer support software to include its broadband wireless services, wireline-wireless integration and its IPTV trial....
InFocus: How to compete against DBS and cable
By: By Geoff Burke
For the better part of the last decade, people have scoffed at the idea that communications service providers could compete head-to-head with entertainment service providers such as cable and satellite and win. However, over the last year RBOCs have committed billions of dollars to IPTV. The technology seems viable, but can it be successful?...
BATM CEO: PON is wrong route
By: By Vince Vittore
Declaring that the passive optical network (PON) has too many limitations, Zvi Marcom, CEO of BATM, the parent company of Telco Systems, said carriers are making a mistake by not implementing active Ethernet architectures...
In-home management key to IPTV future
By: By Vince Vittore
If telcos are to be successful with their IPTV offerings one of the biggest hurdles to overcome will be dealing with in-home networks, according to a recent analysis from Multimedia Research Group...
Tut finds replacement middleware in Myrio
By: By Vince Vittore
Siemens Communications today announced that Tut Systems has been tabbed as an authorized reseller of its Surpass Home Entertainment middleware...
IP video crosses the boundary
By: By Vince Vittore
It appears the cable market is catching on to the benefits of IP...
Hillcrest inching closer to service provider deals
By: By Carol Wilson
Consumers will change service providers to gain access to easier content navigation, according to research commissioned by Hillcrest Labs, makers of the HoME navigation system with its Loop remote control device....
IPTV era begins to take shape
By: By Vince Vittore
Though not typically a telco show, the International CES is quickly becoming a hot venue for carriers launching new services...
IPTV puts home networking under fire
By: By Vince Vittore
Note to proponents of any particular home networking technology: Don't get too comfortable, and prepare for battle...
Consolidated goes set-topless
By: By Vince Vittore
Consolidated Communications said today that it will use Entone Technologies Hydra IP video gateway to support its rollout of IPTV services. ...
BellSouth testing IPTV but not sold yet
By: By Vince Vittore
