Telebriefing Replay & Podcast

Digital Media Infrastructure:
Brave New Multi-Play Worlds

Ron Westfall
Research Director, Telecom Infrastructure, Access and Applications

Erik Keith
Senior Analyst, Broadband Infrastructure

September 5, 2007

The Digital Media Infrastructure realm continues to generate advances in areas such as multi-play consumer service offerings that combine video/IPTV, voice, and data as well as mobile services into bundled packages. These advances are creating new market expansion and diversification opportunities for digital media infrastructure equipment players, but also an evolving and shifting array of competitive challenges and competitors. Thus digital media equipment providers and their operator customers need to engage in periodical reality checks to ensure their visions will continue to align with rapidly changing customer needs and expectations while sustaining their overall competitiveness.

In this telebriefing, Erik Keith, Senior Analyst in Broadband Infrastructure and Ronald Westfall, Research Director of Access and Applications at Current Analysis, examine the key trends and drivers behind the rapidly evolving digital media infrastructure market, how various key equipment vendors and carriers are addressing the market and the competitive terrain within the digital media area. The telebriefing focuses primarily on these questions and more:

• How is the digital media infrastructure market defined and what are some of its key characteristics?
• What are the most significant trends and drivers within the overall digital media infrastructure market?
• What are the major paint points for carriers deploying emerging digital media services such as IPTV?
• Who are the major digital media infrastructure players and how do they stack up within key competitive segments?
• What are the most notable future digital media infrastructure trends?

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