October 1, 2008

Sri Lanka Joins World IPTV Club

by Alan Harten

The latest member of the IPTV club is the war torn island of Sri Lanka.
The country’s national telecom company, Sri Lanka Telecom, selected UTStarcom to add the hardware to make the system work.
They in turn have farmed out some parts of the end-to-end IPTV solution to companies including Optibase Ltd who will provide […]



September 24, 2008

IPTV is About To Boom

by Alan Harten

It’s official, there is to be a big push to widen the availability and recognition of IPTV services.
One of the problems with getting the system to the starving TV masses has always been a lack of compatible specifications that unify the business into one viable market.
Now the Open IPTV Forum intends to change that, […]



September 24, 2008

Livestation Adds Deutsche Welle TV Over broadband

by Alan Harten

Germany’s main TV and radio export is Deutsche Welle.
It broadcasts to 22 million people in its native German and in English, around the world via satellite and cable TV.
Deutsche Well was a pioneer of worldwide news stations, along with English language news stations such as BBC worldwide and CNN.
Now Livestation is going to […]



September 24, 2008

Hanaro Selects Corrigent For IPTV

by Alan Harten

Korea’s second largest ISP, Hanaro, is to begin making use of Corrigent Systems’ CM-100 product line.
The company is looking to boost its already strong Korean broadband commitment by increasing its offerings.
It has already launched a100Mbps service and now wants to add the services to go with it.
This is where Corrigent comes in to […]



September 24, 2008

TELUS TV Calls on CopperGate HomePNA 3.1

by Alan Harten

TELUS is a large scale Canadian telco turning over $9.4 billion a year.
They have over 11 million customers on their books, over half of which are wireless customers.
That is why CopperGate Communications are very exited about the new deal they have struck with the company.
CopperGate have been charged with supplying TELUS with […]



September 23, 2008

Tilgin & Nordija Contract HD IPTV For Tre-for

by Alan Harten

Big time multiplay and next-generation broadband player, Tilgin, has joined up with independent software vendor Nordija.
The companies hope to produce new middleware for IPTV solutions for the Danish utility company TRE-FOR.
They intend to create a solution that is designed purely for TRE-FOR’s needs in the delivery of HD IPTV to its customers.
TRE-FOR needs […]



September 23, 2008

NDS Crowned Global IPTV DRM King

by Alan Harten

Two of the most respected market research firms in the industry, Current Analysis and ABI Research, are seemingly both of the opinion that NDS is currently in pole position in the areas of content security and Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions for IPTV platforms.
NDS operates worldwide, offering different content protection packages aimed at avoiding content […]



September 19, 2008

Teledata Lands New Central Asia Deal

by Alan Harten

Teledata Networks Ltd has won a large order from a telecommunications company located in Central Asia to build on their existing infrastructure.
The company will use its Teledata Networks’ BroadAccess-1000 MSAG to complete the $21 million upgrade.
Once completed the enhanced system will provide voice, broadband data and IPTV services over Next Generation IP Network.
This […]



September 10, 2008

Verimatrix Still Has Best Worldwide Potential

by Alan Harten

Verimatrix is considered to be the IPTV content security seen as being in a position for best growth prospects, at least according to MRG, Multimedia Research Group.
This is based on the fact that the company currently have a large number of tier one operator deployments.
In fact the study, which is conducted every six months, […]



September 8, 2008

Mixed Signals Entices European Video Service Providers

by Alan Harten

Seven of the top 10 US cable television operators are currently using digital content monitoring systems provided by Mixed Signals.
Now the company is hoping that it will be able to persuade some of the top European players to appreciate the system’s capabilities.
The company’s Sentry digital content monitoring solution is popular in the US, but […]



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