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[Lightreading.com] Alcatel has pumped a lot of human and financial resources into its own IPTV system, and it is anxious to position itself as the lead IPTV middleware supplier as carriers consider their triple-play strategies. Winning a major RBOC account would provide Alcatel, or any IPTV middleware player, with a valuable customer reference (see Alcatel Denies iMagic Fadeout and Heavy Reading: Telco Triple Play).
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[Voip-magazine.com] Siemens King of the IPTV Middleware Hill - VoIP Magazine Online: ABI Research has crowned Siemens king of the IPTV network middleware hill for now. Siemens edged out Microsoft and Alcatel, the respective runners up, when ABI put a total of 16 vendors through its Vendor Matrix analytical tool, according to Mike Arden, principal analyst for ABI and author of the results.
[Lightreading.com] Light Reading - Video - Will Cisco Make an IPTV Middleware Move ...: “It’s not critical to have middleware as part of that solution, but there are some advantages when it comes to integration, especially if you are acquiring the set-top boxes,” Thompson says. “If you can control the integration time needed to make all the pieces of the food chain work together, you can control the time needed for the carrier customer to turn up profitable services."
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