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[InteractiveTV Today [itvt]] Open IPTV Forum Adds Four New Members | InteractiveTV Today: UK incumbent telco, BT, which operates BT Vision, a Microsoft Mediaroom-powered, interactive TV-enabled hybrid IPTV service which at last count had around 400,000 customers (note: the service is enabled via a hybrid set-top box that allows viewers to access linear channels from the UK's free-to-air digital terrestrial platform, Freeview, alongside IP-delivered on-demand and interactive content).

[Broadband Presentations] IPTV Services: Monetizing the Crisp Viewer Experience :: BigBand ...: Content Management Solutions IMS Enabled IPTV Middleware Orange - NAB, April 20, 2009 16 Orange: one of the world's leading telecom operators, a world class communications brand 220 countries and territories €53.5 Bn revenue #2 mobile .

[Digital Cable TV News] Telekom Slovenije to Secure SiOL IPTV With Verimatrix Solution: The operator's IPTV service, known as SiOL TV with 80000 subscribers, currently maintains the majority market share in Slovenia according to the Agency for Post and Electronic Communications (APEK). For the SiOL deployment, VCAS for IPTV will be integrated with Thomson's SmartVision middleware and Sagem's set-top-boxes.

[ITU-T Newslog - Technology Watch] ITU-T Newslog - New IPTV standard supports global rollout: The standard, Recommendation ITU-T Y.1901, specifies high level requirements for the support of IPTV services, including requirements concerning service offering, QoS/QoE, service and content protection, middleware, content, network and end system aspects. Y.1901 and previously approved Recommendation ITU-T Y.1910, “IPTV functional architecture”, plus various other IPTV related ITU-T Recommendations, constitute an initial set of IPTV standards enabling equipment vendors, including consumer electronics suppliers, to roll-out standardized IPTV products.

[David Slade's engineering blog] How to Approach IPTV Solution Integration - A Framework Based on ...: Integration of the streaming servers with the head-end, CA, middleware and content management is required. Video services middleware platform - Central IPTV component carrying all the business logic of the IPTV service and responsible for interfacing and managing all solution components and players - e.g., underlying network, head-end, CA, video servers, back-office legacy systems (e.g., OSS, BSS, Customer Relationship Management [CRM]), Content Management Systems (CMS), Integrated Access Device (IAD), set-top box (STB), and end user.

[xchange] Ericsson Debuts IMS IPTV Middleware in U.S.: The group recently held a 12-day Global Multiservice Interoperability (GMI) test event spanning three continents, five test labs, three carriers (Verizon, BT and China Mobile) and tested 22 vendor’s devices, with the focus being bringing IP services and their related devices into the IMS core.

[Broadband Presentations] IPTV Monitoring and Maintenance in a Multi Vendor Environment ...: CA DRM encryption compression encoding middleware EAS ad insertion local channels content (SD, HD, VOD, PPV access network transport network ....

[Electronics.ca Publications: New Market Reports] Internet Protocol Television (iPVT) - A Global Strategic Business ...: China III-95 A.Market Analysis III-95 Outlook III-95 Market Overview III-95 China - An Emerging Market III-95 Immense Potential Lies Ahead III-95 Trouble in Paradise III-96 Table 39: Chinese Market for iPTV (2006): Percentage Share Breakdown of iPTV User Preferences by Type - VoD, Live TV Broadcast, and Time-shifted TV (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-96 Table 40: Chinese Market for iPTV (2007): Percentage Share Breakdown of iPTV Users in Select Major Provinces - Beijing, Guangdong, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Xinjiang, and Yunnan (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-97 Table 41: Chinese Market for iPTV (2007): Percentage Share Breakdown of iPTV Subscribers in Shanghai by Consumer- Existing Broadband users loading iPTV, New Broadband users loading iPTV , New iPTV Customers (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-97 Chinese TV Industry - An Introduction III-97 Regulatory Framework III-98 SARFT Favors Digital TV III-98 A Peek into the Broadband Market III-99 iPTV Market III-100 Market Trends III-100 Conformist Regulations Hindering iPTV III-100 2008 Olympics - Nurturing iPTV Market III-100 iPTV- A Young Market III-101 Chinese iPTV Market in Nutshell III-101 Challenges Before iPTV III-102 Competitive Structure III-103 IPTV Solutions of Major Chinese Suppliers III-104 China to Outdo Hong Kong III-104 Product/Service Launches III-104 Strategic Corporate Developments III-105 Key Chinese iPTV Carrier/Operator III-109 China Telecom Corporation III-109 B.Market Analytics III-109 Table 42: Chinese Current and Future Analysis for iPTV by Number of Subscribers in Million for the Years 2004 through 2014 (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-109 Table 43: Chinese Current and Future Analysis for iPTV by Annual Service Revenues in US$ Million for the Years 2004 through 2014 (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-110 4b. Rest of Asia-Pacific III-111 A.Market Analysis III-111 Outlook III-111 Market Overview III-111 Leading Markets III-111 Hong Kong III-111 A Mature Market III-111 Pay TV Market III-111 iPTV in Hong Kong: A Market Profile III-111 FTTH to Take Front Seat III-112 Competitive Structure III-112 PCCW Leads from the Front III-112 Laggards Losing the Battle to PCCW III-113 Japan III-113 Pay TV Market III-113 iPTV Market III-113 Lack of Subscriber Interest and Regulatory Hurdles Hindering iPTV Prospects III-114 South Korea III-114 An Advanced Market for Broadband Penetration III-114 Table 44: Leading Players in Korean iPTV Market (2007 H1): Percentage Share Breakdown of Market Revenues for Hanaro Telecom, KT, and LG Dacom (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-115 Table 45: Leading Players in Korean iPTV Market (2007 H1): Percentage Share Breakdown for Hanaro Telecom, KT, and LG Dacom by Number of Subscribers (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-115 Pending Regulatory Reforms III-115 Telcos Facing Intense Regulatory Barriers III-115 Undermining Prospects for iPTV III-115 India: Market with Strong Potential III-116 Product/Service Launches III-117 Strategic Corporate Developments III-121 Key iPTV Carrier/Operator in Rest of Asia-Pacific III-125 PCCW Limited (Hong Kong) III-125 Key iPTV Vendor/System Provider in Rest of Asia-Pacific III-125 NEC Corporation (Japan) III-125 B.Market Analytics III-126 Table 46: Rest of Asia-Pacific Current and Future Analysis for iPTV by Number of Subscribers in Million for the Years 2004 through 2014 (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-126 Table 47: Rest of Asia-Pacific Current and Future Analysis for iPTV by Annual Service Revenues in US$ Million for the Years 2004 through 2014 (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) III-126 5.

[ITU-T Newslog - Technology Watch] ITU-T Newslog - IPTV Focus Group Announced: Houlin Zhao, Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of ITU: “We have seen a desire to expedite and accelerate a global focus on standards for IPTV. There has been extraordinary consensus that ITU must lead this work and I am pleased that – again - ITU is seen as the right place to develop and harmonize this international standardization work, as well as identify and help fill gaps where there is still a standardization need.”

[TVover.net] Ericsson Launches New IMS IPTV Middleware - TVover.net: The end-to-end IPTV solution is aligned with the Open IPTV Forum specifications and is the first solution in the world to be pre-integrated with IMS. It brings together core Ericsson solutions - new IMS-enabled IPTV middleware, IPTV network infrastructure, market-leading video processing solutions and video-on-demand technologies - with interoperable third-party products from key TV players such as Accedo Broadband, Agama Technologies, Amino, HP, SecureMedia, Sun Microsystem, Tilgin, Verimatrix, and ZyXEL.

[[itvt] Bloggit] Optibase in IPTV Interoperability Agreement with SeaChange « itvt: SeaChange’s TV Platform, meanwhile, is an IPTV solution that includes modular client-set-top, network and backoffice software options designed to allow operators to quickly launch a range of subscriber services. The companies say that their respective solutions are built on open, standards-based architectures to ease integration and accelerate time-to-market: according to SeaChange, TV Platform, whether deployed as an end-to-end solution or in modules, allows operators to "plug and play"

[Connected TV] IBC 2008 Report: Ericsson launches world's first IMS-integrated ...: Eugene Sarmiento, head of sales development, IPTV at Ericsson, told ConnectedTV that the move was a response to operators complaining that the business case for IPTV “is really tough.” The biggest element in the capex involved in an IPTV rollout is the set-top box, usually accounting for around 75% of the cost, and there has been “no easy way to create a new set-top box or to protect it without a proprietary solution,”

[ABI Research - Digital Home Industry Blog Feed] Espial Tops New ABI Research IPTV Client Middleware Vendor Matrix ...: Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York, ABI Research maintains global operations supporting annual research programs, intelligence services and market reports in broadband and multimedia, RFID and M2M, wireless connectivity, mobile wireless, transportation, and emerging technologies. For information visit www.abiresearch.com, or call +1.516.624.2500.

[[itvt] Bloggit] SeaChange Launches IPTV Solution Targeted at European Market « itvt: SeaChange says that TV Platform is fully interoperable with Integra5’s Converged Services Delivery Platform (i5 C-SDP), making up a combined solution that European IPTV operators can use to deliver an expanded portfolio of converged quad-play applications and services across multiple household devices, including TV’s and PC’s. Integra5 touts the IMS-enabled i5 C-SDP as allowing service providers to efficiently deliver converged communications and content to any IP device, using its own or third-party apps, with minimal network overhead.

[What's New @ Mu] From MPLS to IPTV -- Lessons Learned: MPLS-based networks even allow providers to offer circuit emulation services over packet cores, which is much cheaper than using end-to-end TDM infrastructures to offer circuits to customers. Soon, most leading network operators will have a completely packet-switched core network where the links operate at 100 Gbps or higher, and the very concept of a link is blurred by the fact that many links can be optically multiplexed on a single fiber.

[[itvt] Bloggit] Kasenna News: « itvt: "The partnership between our two companies will extend from an integrated IPTV product suite to a tightly coupled sales and support services organization that will make it easier for telecom operators to immediately deploy a competitive, carrier-grade TV solution that not only generates revenue today but positions them for tomorrow’s needs."

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