July 17, 2008

StreamGuys To Deliver Philippine TV

by Alan Harten

StreamGuys, Inc., a streaming media and content delivery provider based in Northern California, is now handling content delivery for ABS-CBN’s IPTV service in Canada, Europe, Japan and South Korea.
ABS-CBN Broadcasting is the largest integrated media and entertainment corporation in the Philippines, with 35 television stations, 19 owned-and operated AM and FM radio stations, and […]


July 16, 2008

High Bandwidth Network Processor GPON from ECI

by Alan Harten

ECI Telecom has announced that it will showcase its much anticipated high-bandwidth gigabit passive optical network (GPON) optical line termination (OLT) with a built-in network processor at the Broadband World Forum Asia Conference which this year moves to Hong Kong.
The event is set to run from 15 -18, July 2008 with many prestigious guest […]


July 14, 2008

Operators Support Two Opposing Technologies

by Alan Harten

Having to face up to ever increasing and varied competition in the cable market itself, as well as newcomers such as Telco’s all fighting for TV viewers, the traditionally set-in-their-ways and unwilling to change cable operators are becoming increasingly uncomfortable.
According to researcher IMS, set-top boxes (STBs) will reach 90.3m unit shipments worldwide in 2009, up […]


July 11, 2008

Diva Offering VOD Distribution of Movies

by Alan Harten

Diva.AG is a digital distribution solution for award winning independent movies and true classics.
Diva stands for Digital Video Access offering video content to new audiences worldwide.
They license VOD (“Video on Demand”) rights from the producers and distributors and then compile all the metadata for every piece of content.
They then store the content […]


July 7, 2008

300% Rise In Digital Asset Management Revenue

by Rohan Parker

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 […]


June 16, 2008

Win Multimedia selects Digisoft IPTV

by Alan Harten

Digisoft.tv, provider of carrier class solutions to the IPTV and media & entertainment markets, has announced that Win Multimedia Co. Ltd. (WM) of Thailand has selected Digisoft’s DigiHost Service Delivery Platform and IPTV set top box middleware to deliver premium IPTV services in the Thai and Chinese markets.
WM plans to launch their IPTV service […]


June 13, 2008

Two Midwest Telcos choose Comtrend NexusLink

by Alan Harten

Comtrend Corp, supplier of broadband, VoIP and data networking equipment, has announced that two U.S. regional telecom companies, Rural Telephone and Bayland Telephone, have adopted Comtrend’s NexusLink ADSL2+ Bonded modems as their exclusive residential platform for ADSL2+ deployment.
The selections make it possible for both companies to deliver IPTV, HD programming and other next-generation services […]


June 12, 2008

EBU chooses TANDBERG for sports coverage

by Alan Harten

TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group has announced that it is providing a range of MPEG-2 video compression technologies to the European Broadcast Union (EBU), the world’s largest contribution network, for coverage of a strong line-up of high profile sporting events this summer.
TANDBERG Television’s digital TV systems provide delivery of footage of both […]


June 9, 2008

Comstar Will Consolidate Comstar-Direct

by Alan Harten

COMSTAR - United TeleSystems, the Russian integrated telecommunications operator, has announced that it has completed negotiations with Sistema Mass Media and commenced the consolidation of Comstar-Direct, a broadband internet access services provider in Moscow.
Comstar currently owns 51.8% of Comstar-Direct, with the remaining 48.2% owned by Sistema Mass Media.
The transaction is being effected by […]


May 23, 2008

Abacast and FutureStream go to China

by Alan Harten

Abacast, Hybrid Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Technologies and Services provider, has announced a widening of the companies relationship with FutureStream Networks in order to deliver online video and audio within China.
FutureStream Networks has already successfully deployed Abacast’s technology in South Korea for the third largest South Korean broadcast company.
Abacast’s technology produced a 95% reduction in […]


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