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Dreampark Dreams about New IPTV Channels with ZyXEL
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Apr 18, 2008]
Dreampark lands ZyXEL as a channel and technology partner for
its IPTV middleware technology, but the pairing is late relative
to equivalent rival partnering efforts, and it remains to be
seen who will deploy the combined Dreampark/ZyXEL solution.
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NAB 2008: BitBand to Become Maestro to U.S. Couch Potatoes with RealPage Deal
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Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Apr 16, 2008]
BitBand has expanded its geographic and
product footprint,
gaining access to more than 20,000
apartment communities as
part of its selection as an affiliate vendor
for RealPage’s
IPTV offering. Do content delivery rivals
need to respond?
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NAB 2008: BRIDGE Technologies Integrates Its IP Probes with SkyLine Communications for IP Video Test & Measurement
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Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Apr 15, 2008]
IPTV test and measurement competition
continues to heat up,
with BRIDGE Technologies and SkyLine
Communications now
integrating their products. However, is
their promise of end-
to-end and vendor-independent
monitoring sufficiently
differentiated?
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NAB 2008: Envivio HDs and 3GPPs the 4Caster 4C Platform
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Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Apr 11, 2008]
Envivio unveiled the latest release of the
4Caster C4 platform
with new support for high-definition
encoding and 3GPP and
3GPP2 mobile streaming profiles for
unicast mobile TV, but it
is less differentiated now and can use a
carrier endorsement.
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NAB 2008: Harmonic Flexes its IP Video Processing Muscle with Re-encoding Upgrade
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Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Apr 10, 2008]
With multiple vendors introducing and
demonstrating converged
all-IP encoding/decoding solutions, is
Harmonic’s universal
DiviCom FLEX decoder upgrade
sufficiently differentiated from
rival offerings?
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Can 180Squared Succeed by Following in Microsoft’s IPTV Customer Footprints?
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Apr 09, 2008]
180Squared has emerged as an
application-layer integration vendor
addressing the IPTV market. Will its
Mediaroom-based focus constrain the
company’s latitude for broader success?
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BigBand Wants to Better Conduct the Video Management of Operators
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Apr 04, 2008]
BigBand introduces the new VMS to streamline and improve video
management in areas such as accelerated troubleshooting and
enhanced performance management, but will the new product
improve BigBand’s overall competitive position?
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Avail Media and Motorola Collaborate on End-to-End IPTV Offering for Lower-tier Operators
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 19, 2008]
Avail and Motorola are combining their
hosted IPTV headend
service and channel transport rights into
a turnkey offering
targeting lower-tier telcos, but overlap
between their separate
offerings could result in customer
confusion, delaying uptake.
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IPTV World Forum 2008 Round-up: A Wealth of Emerging Trends Worthy of Metadata Management
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| Advisory Report |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 19, 2008]
The IPTV World Forum 2008 show indicated IPTV is now beyond the
bleeding edge of technical implementation and first generation
service deployment, but some cutting edge challenges and
innovations are around the corner in 2008.
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IPTV World Forum: Anevia and Smart Com Jointly Cast a Ripple in the Fragmented Sea of IPTV Ecosystems
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Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 17, 2008]
Will the Anevia and Smart Com ecosystem integration succeed in
enhancing the competitive positioning of their respective video
processing and IPTV middleware solutions, or are Tier 2 and 3
European telco operators looking for something more?
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IPTV World Forum: NEC Announces a Generic “Me Too” IPTV Solution Offering
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Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 14, 2008]
NEC is looking to enter the IPTV market sometime in 2008. But,
with a generic solution set and an announcement lacking vision,
it seems unlikely that NEC’s late market entry into an already
crowded market will succeed in a meaningful way.
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IPTV World Forum: Latens Looks to Carry a Big STIK
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| Show Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 14, 2008]
Latens plays to its strong suit in IPTV and cable conditional
access by introducing the STIK program aimed at improving STB
integration processes and improving operator costs, but Latens
still must prove STIK will generate keen industry interest.
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IPTV World Forum: Harmonic Once Again Achieves Microsoft IQ Lab Approval for an Encoder Product
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| Show Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 13, 2008]
Harmonic continues to generate sales
and marketing momentum within the IPTV
space by unveiling the completion of
conformance testing for its DiviCom SD
encoder within the Microsoft IQ Lab
testing regime. There are no competitive
surprises here.
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IPTV World Forum: Swiss-based Osmosys Takes Neutral Approach to IPTV Market with Open Standards-based Solution Set
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| Show Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 13, 2008]
Osmosys has decided to become a contender in the IPTV market,
announcing its formal entry at the IPTV World Forum in London
this week. Is Osmosys late to the dance, or has the company in
fact timed its entry at the market’s inflection point?
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IPTV World Forum: Viaccess Gains Orca at Bargain Rate, but Timing and Competition Rain on this Basement Sale
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Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 11, 2008]
Viaccess will acquire Orca at a bargain
rate of $21.4 million, but key challenges
face the newly formed company, such as
generating compelling differentiation
against well-established rival IPTV
solutions and achieving smooth
integration.
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What It Means to Be ‘‘Green:’’ Environmental Responsibility in the Telecom Industry
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| Advisory Report |
Data Management, Business Network Services - U.S., Carrier Infrastructure , Enterprise Network Systems, Broadband Infrastructure , Contact Center Solutions, Internet/Managed Services - U.S., Optical Infrastructure , Wireless Services - Europe, Solutions Assessments, Application Infrastructure, Wireless Infrastructure , Enterprise Communications , Business Telecom Services - Europe, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Mobility - Europe, Carrier IP Telephony , Wholesale Telecom Services , Enterprise Mobility - U.S., Telecom Services - Asia, Digital Media Infrastructure, Telecom Infrastructure Services, Consumer Broadband Services Europe
- BeNeLux, Central Europe, China/Hong Kong, Eastern Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nordics, Pan-Asia, Pan-European, Singapore, Southern Europe, UK/Ireland [Mar 07, 2008]
As Kermit once said, “It’s not easy being
green.” Current
Analysis recognizes the challenges and
opportunities associated
with environmental sustainability and it is
taking a
comprehensive approach to analyzing the
key issues in this
movement.
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Widevine Extends Content Security to Internet Media Delivery with Origin Digital Partnership
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 07, 2008]
Widevine has integrated its content
security technology with
Origin Digital’s Web-based content
encoding, management, and
distribution solution, extending
Widevine’s claim to true multi-
platform and multi-format digital media
security.
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Navic’s Digital Advertising Solutions Gain Motorola Set-top Box Validation
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Mar 06, 2008]
Validation for Motorola’s cable STB
environments earns Navic
increased visibility across all major cable
platforms. Yet,
Navic’s technology can also address
opportunities beyond
digital cable, such as IPTV and broadcast
video.
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Is the Soft at Home Initiative the Next Evolution in IPTV Platforms?
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| Advisory Report |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Feb 29, 2008]
Are more companies likely to join the new, France-centric Soft
At Home venture which promises to address the complexity of
integrating multiple platforms that enable content to be shared
across home multimedia environments?
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BigBand Plays a Motorola Tune with Switched Digital Video Milestone
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Feb 22, 2008]
BigBand plays two SDV tunes:
Cisco/Scientific-Atlanta and
Motorola. Will BigBand’s SDV deployment
credentials and
integration experience across diverse
cable networks secure the
company’s market leadership once SDV
emerges into the
mainstream?
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Mobile World Congress 2008: NDS Simplifies Mobile TV Content Security with Unified Platform
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| Show Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Feb 13, 2008]
NDS is meeting the demands for an
increasingly converging
content consumption market by enabling
mobile TV operators to
secure the delivery of content to multiple
handsets by
supporting various security profiles from
a single, unified
platform.
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BigBand Enhances Its Switched Video Services Platform
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Jan 24, 2008]
BigBand announced yet another upgrade
to its SDV platform, but
is the company converting its technical
leadership into
deployment traction as quickly as it is
launching product?
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SCTE Emerging Technologies Conference 2008: Imagine Re-focuses its First Product Launch by Targeting Broadcast Video
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| Show Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Jan 16, 2008]
Imagine’s bandwidth saving solution for digital video is
finally ready for MSO deployment. But, how ripe is the launch,
given that it must fend challenges from alternative bandwidth
management approaches as well as similar technical solutions?
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SCTE Emerging Technologies Conference 2008: Symmetricom’s new V-FACTOR Maximizes Cable Video QoE
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| Show Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Jan 16, 2008]
Symmetricom has unveiled its V-FACTOR video QoE solution, which
enables cable operators to analyze/pinpoint video quality
impairments throughout the network. As HD becomes increasingly
pervasive, these solutions will be vital tools for operators.
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Widevine Extends Content Security into End-to-End Internet Video Streaming to the Desktop
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Jan 10, 2008]
Widevine has deepened its content
protection proposition by
partnering with Move Networks to deliver
a secure end-to-end
Internet video solution. Can these two
companies beat the
competition to gain the confidence of
cautious content owners?
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CES 2008: CableLabs Crashes the Consumer Electronics Party with ‘‘Tru2way’’ Branding
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| Show Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Jan 09, 2008]
Tru2way is the new brand name for the
CableLabs two-way plug-and-play
solution. Will 2008 be the year when
cable systems gain a truly ubiquitous and
flexible platform for accessing interactive
digital cable services?
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Neptuny Gains Additional Customer Credibility for Its IPTV Capacity Planning Suite
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Jan 09, 2008]
Neptuny’s waves have crossed from Italy
into Greece. Will this
small regional IPTV solution provider
pioneer IPTV capacity
planning and QoS/QoE assurance, or will
it follow the path of
HyC and be gobbled up by bigger fish in
the Mediterranean.
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CES 2008: Microsoft TV Partners with BT to Launch Integrated IPTV and Gaming Solution
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| Show Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Jan 07, 2008]
Microsoft TV announced that the
integration of its Xbox 360
gaming console and online service with
its Mediaroom platform
will be launched by BT in mid-2008. Will
the BT test case open
the door for follow-on partnerships?
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Ericsson Strengthens IPTV Systems Integration Offering with HyC Acquisition
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Dec 21, 2007]
Ericsson’s acquisition of HyC, a small IPTV
consulting outfit
in Spain, will not substantially move its
services dial. The
move highlights the company’s efforts to
leverage its assets
into a converged end-to-end multi-play
services organization.
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Widevine AIRs Out Its DRM Proposition
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Dec 21, 2007]
Widevine rolls out support of Adobe Integrated Runtime to
extend security assurances to Flash-based advertising content,
further bolstering the company’s Switzerland of DRM marketing
motif, but the monetizing aspects remain amorphous.
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Another Step Forward for IPTV Standardization: ITU Announces 21-Document Foundation
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Dec 20, 2007]
The ITU has issued its first set of IPTV
standards,
establishing a critical foundation for
further standards
development. As operators move toward
large-scale IPTV
deployments, leadership of the
standardization effort will be
even more critical.
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BitBand Forecasts IPTV Trends for 2008: To What Extent Can BitBand Capitalize on the 2008 Trends?
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Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Dec 19, 2007]
BitBand shares its projections on the
major IPTV trends expected
for 2008, creating a marketing
opportunity for the company to
showcase its market progress and overall
technical acumen, but
must still show it can capitalize best on
these trends.
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Open IPTV Forum, Wave Two: 9 Months Later, 10 More Members Join the Fray
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Dec 10, 2007]
The Open IPTV Forum has more than
doubled its membership, adding
key vendors and operators with a second
round roster expansion.
However, the absence of IPTV
middleware market leaders Cascade
and MicrosoftTV means there is still work
to do.
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IPTV World Forum Asia 2007: Cisco Presents Its End-to-End Credentials
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| Show Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Dec 07, 2007]
Cisco demonstrates its unique capability to deliver end-to-end
IPTV services to Asia’s operators, but misses the opportunity
to leverage its leading technical and field-proven position to
gain a foothold in the market.
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Irdeto Grabs Its Cloakware to Bolster Software-based Content Security Solutions
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| Competitive Intelligence Report |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Dec 06, 2007]
Irdeto takes a step closer to the downloadable and software-
only side of content security by acquiring its partner
Cloakware, which secures the software element of CA/DRM
solutions. But is there anything real under Irdeto’s new hood?
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Espial Avails Itself of a New Distribution Channel
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Nov 30, 2007]
Espial and Avail Media form a strategic partnership to deliver
an integrated middleware and managed content solution to small
and mid-sized operators, capitalizing on their differentiated
position to deliver a turnkey MPEG-4-based IPTV offering.
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Verimatrix Secures Its Position in IPTV MPEG-4 Replacement Cycle with Smart Telecom Win
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Nov 29, 2007]
Verimatrix won a deployment in Ireland
as part of an upgrade to
an MPEG-4 IPTV ecosystem, boosting the
company’s credentials
for next-generation infrastructure
replacements.
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Symmetricom and Sagem Look to Measure IPTV Quality Objectively with Beta Trial in France
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Nov 15, 2007]
Symmetricom’s joint solution with Sagem
enhances its IPTV test
and measurement credentials, but the
beta trial announcement
lacks the marketing heft of a publicly
disclosed customer
deployment or technical differentiation
from competing
offerings.
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Entone and Minerva Tout their IPTV Tones
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| Competitive Update |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Nov 15, 2007]
Entone further explicates its partnership with Minerva by
revealing the deployment of its Hydra IP video gateway with
Minerva’s iTVManager IPTV middleware, although the announcement
itself does not invoke with whom.
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TelcoTV 2007: Is the Addressable Advertising Market Ready for the IPTV Primetime?
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| Advisory Report |
Digital Media Infrastructure
- [Nov 05, 2007]
While TelcoTV 2007 attendees may have
their sights set on the
cable industry bogey of $4.3 billion
dollars generated from
local ad insertion in 2006, realizing the
promise of
addressable advertising still requires
overcoming significant
hurdles.
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