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Open IPTV Forum welcomes Thomson
Thomson, a French leader in video solutions, has become the latest member of the growing Open IPTV Forum.
The Forum is an alliance of IPTV industry professionals, dedicated to developing end-to-end open specifications for IPTV services and offering consumers a plug- and-play experience.
Thomson will add its engineering resources to the forum, and its expertise […]
July 15, 2008
Spirent ensures delivery of 200 IPTV Channels
The University of Exeter is investing £5.5m to upgrade its cross-campus network, including the provision of 1Gbps bandwidth to the desktop, and 200 IPTV channels showing lecture material and other information relevant to courses of study.
Spirent Communications is playing a key role in the upgrade by assessing the switching and routing capabilities of the […]
July 9, 2008
On Demand in VOD deal with OTE
London-based On Demand Group has been selected by the Hellenic Telecommunication Organisation S.A. (OTE), of Greece, to provide outsourced video-on-demand services.
OTE, Greece’s largest telco, is extending its services with the provision of IPTV to its customers.
The deal, to work with OTE on its video-on-demand service, marks On Demand’s expansion into the Greek market, […]
July 8, 2008
Amir Khan Fight Live On IPTV
On June 21st, Amir Khan’s Commonwealth lightweight title fight against Michael Gomez in the UK, was watched live on IPTV by viewers in North America.
Ether Digital, assisted by encoding partner Garland Partners Ltd, streamed live video of the match over the Internet, using the Viewcast Niagara®Pro digital video encoding platform.
The 8-hour broadcast was a […]
July 7, 2008
300% Rise In Digital Asset Management Revenue
ABI Research has released new findings which suggests that revenues from digital asset management (DAM) solutions will increase by 300% in the next 5 years.
ABI also conducted research into broadband video markets and conditional access plans, as well as market growth projections for Asia, Europe, and North America.
ABI Research are leaders in market […]
July 3, 2008
Neptuny announces ContentWise 2.0
Neptuny, the IPTV performance management specialist, plans to launch ContentWise 2.0 at IBC 2008, the broadcasting and media technology event, which will be held at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam, from 12 to 16 September.
ContentWise addresses the problems faced by users in accessing IPTV content.
This can have a significant impact on customer retention rates […]
July 2, 2008
Asia Pacific Expansion For Orca Interactive
IPTV middleware provider Orca Interactive Ltd., today announced plans to move into the Asia Pacific market.
The subsidiary of Viaccess was established in 1996, and is based out of Ra’anana, Israel, in spite of being owned by France Telecom.
Chief Technology Officer at Orca, Ofer Weintraub, is to speak at the CommunicAsia conference about the company’s […]
July 2, 2008
PMC-Sierra Releases 10G EPON Study
A study detailing new 10G Ethernet Passive Optical Network technology was released today by PMC-Sierra, titled 10G EPON Brings Advantages to the Fiber Access Network.
This new 10G EPON is expected to encourage advanced technologies in next-generation high-definition IPTV solutions, along with high-bandwidth programs.
With the advent of IPTV, and other bandwidth heavy applications becoming […]
July 2, 2008
ATIS & MSF Overhaul IPTV Standards
October is set to see the biennial Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) conference take place, from the 20th to the 31st.
This year the scrutiny is on, because ATIS will be collaborating with MultiService Forum (MSF), and the two will be testing the essential aspects to authentication and initialization of IPTV services.
A list of vendors […]
June 26, 2008
Next-gen iPlayer revealed
The BBC is launching a beta version of the next-generation iPlayer, a service which allows viewers to access catch-up television programmes via a PC.
The new version, which fully integrates television and radio, will run alongside the original version for a while.
It will give users free access to BBC TV and radio programmes, on-demand and […]