The telco adoption of IPTV as a triple play service, just ten years old, has spurred continued growth in bandwidth to deliver multicast video to the subscriber
(writes Steve Klein, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Allied Telesis). ...
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Streaming video delivery is growing dramatically: according to the comScore Video Metrix, 5.5bn videos were viewed online in the UK during February 2010 (writes Dave Schneider, technical analyst at Ixia). That's a rise of 37% over the same period in 2009, with YouTube.com continuing to account for the majority with 99.6% of all video views. Despite YouTube still dominating, the character of video viewing is changing as well, with more people watching longer content ...
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The new decade brings security challenges to the pay-TV world that are not just about trying to outpace video pirates
(writes Steve Christian, VP of Marketing at Verimatrix). Video service providers are contemplating landmark changes in their service profiles, which provide them the opportunity for them to take a fresh look at the value brought by security providers ...
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IPTV and other emerging next generation video services such as VoD and Network-based Personal Video Recorders (N-PVR) are generating a lot of excitement
(writes Ido Shargil
, Head of System Engineering at ECI Telecom & Chairman of iSMART Consortium). But that excitement is not shared equally by all. Bandwidth-hungry next generation video applications require the high-speed broadband access that currently only Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) can deliver ...
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The emergence of IPTV as a serious alternative to traditional home entertainment services, such as cable or satellite TV, gives consumers great hope that a significantly improved customer experience has arrived
(writes John Konczal, Global Industry Executive for Communications and Media at Sterling Commerce) ...
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