180SQUARED at TelcoTV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 20, 2009 : Amir Littman, VP of Business Development for 180SQUARED, talks about how products such as v.Orchestra and Allegro can enable quickly and efficient deployment of enhanced applications and services
Conklin-Intracom at TelcoTV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 19, 2009 : CEO Ian Meletios explains how Conklin-Intracom's strong background in the telecom space makes it a natural choice for customers who need IPTV middleware solutions
Harmonic Video Transcoding & Compression
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 18, 2009 : Harmonic unveils ACE, a new blade for its transcoding platform that offers universal transcoding from virtually any format to any format. The company also talks about its compression platform, the Electra 8000, and current video compression trends
NRTC at TelcoTV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 18, 2009 : NRTC's VP of Video Services explains how it is no longer enough for telcos to just be phone companies
Net Insight at TelcoTV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 17, 2009 : Dan Lutter, Director of Sales for Net Insight, talks about the problems faced by Tecos in the IPTV arena, particularly the tradeoff between high Quality of Service and network utilization. He explains how Net Insight's zero packet loss solutions enable 100 percent QoS with 100 percent network utilization.
Calix at TelcoTV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 16, 2009 : Carl Russo, President and CEO of Calix, talks about how Calix's Unified Access infrastructure is helping service providers move to an all-video world, having the lowest cost of operation with the greatest service deployment capability
ADTRAN Delivers Broadband You Can Build On
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 16, 2009 : Kevin Morgan, Director of Product Marketing for ADTRAN, explains how its customers are using ADTRAN products to maximize their video bandwidth, thereby giving an improved experience to the consumer as well as increasing revenues for service providers
SlingLoaded = TV Everywhere
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment November 6, 2009 : EchoStar provides time- and place-shifting technology that the company believes will be a crucial building block for TV Everywhere experiences
North American TV Trends for 2010
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 29, 2009 : Geoff Hollingworth, Director of Innovation for Ericsson, talks about the TV consumer experience for 2010 and beyond, as watching TV evolves from a passive to a participatory experience. He explains how Ericsson is developing the end-to-end infrastructure that will allow these services to be deployed across North America
Re-Inventing the Role of Service Providers
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 29, 2009 : Ericsson's Director of Marketing and Sales Support, Michael Gronovius, explains how service providers need to re-invent themselves as multimedia companies in order to stay abreast of the changing nature of the industry, where almost every new consumer offering will involve investing in higher bandwidth
New IPTV Services
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 6, 2009 : Ericsson's Staffan Pehrson talks about the solutions that Ericsson and TANDBERG Television are delivering to service providers and how new services can help to differentiate TV offerings as well as generating new revenue
Regulating IPTV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 6, 2009 : Rene Summer, Director of Government & Industry Relations for Ericsson, talks to Georgina Burnett about how the regulations that currently affect terrestrial TV may also have an impact on IPTV
The Evolution of VoD
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 5, 2009 : Edward Allfrey, Business Development Director at TANDBERG Television, explains why people are watching more on-demand content from Pay TV operators and what service providers need to do in order to benefit from these opportunities.
New TV Services for Broadcasters
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 2, 2009 : Mario J Pino, Director of Business Development and Strategy for Middle Eastern broadcaster Etisalat, talks about the new types of TV services being demanded by younger viewers and the opportunities that IPTV service providers have to differentiate their products.
MPEG-4 HD Compression
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 1, 2009 : TANDBERG TV's VP of Product Management Carl Furgusson talks to Georgina Burnett about the improvements in MPEG-4 HD encoding and how the broadcast industry can use efficient compression to provide higher image quality over lower bandwidth
Differentiating the IPTV Offering
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 1, 2009 : Eugene Sarmiento, head of IPTV Sales Development at Ericsson, talks to Georgina Burnett about what types of new TV services younger consumers are demanding, whether the TV industry can deliver them, and how IPTV providers can differentiate their services
The Role of Home Neworking
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment October 1, 2009 : Peter Linder, director of Network Solutions for Ericsson, talks about the convergence of Network and Screens, the roles of IMS and Open Standards, and the the current reach of deep fiber access
Qwest Fiber Backhaul
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment September 30, 2009 : Qwest Wholesale VP Beth Halvorson talks about the strain on today's carrier backhaul, and how Qwest is shooting for 1-Gig so it can meet carrier needs. The company has the major carriers as customers already, and works with them to develop a strategy.
Advertising & IPTV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment September 23, 2009 : Nick Wiggin, head of advertising strategy for Ericsson, explains the part that advertising will play in the TV of the future and the telecom operators' role in the advertising ecosystem
Open IPTV Forum
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment September 21, 2009 : 2009 has been a successful year for the Open IPTV Forum. Six OIPF members demonstrated solutions at IBC 2009, and we take a look at some multimedia applications from Ericsson, Sharp, and Fraunhofer FOKUS that are using Open IPTV standards to deliver a compelling end-user experience
Watchpoint Content Management System
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment September 14, 2009 : Michael Adams from TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson group, talks about the new Watchpoint content management system and why Pay TV operators need a multi-platform service
Cisco - Advanced IP Video Services
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment August 17, 2009 : Suraj Shetty, VP of Worldwide Service Provider Marketing for Cisco, talks to Fritz Nelson about the importance of advanced video services in the business and consumer space. Carsten Rossenhövel, Managing Director of EANTC, gives his feedback on EANTC's independent testing of Cisco's solutions, focusing on the service delivery network, user experience, and the data center.
LSI's Secure Any-to-Any Communication
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment July 6, 2009 : LSI's multicore processors with Deep Packet Inspection are essential at a time when threats have grown more serious, both into and out of the network. We talked to industry leaders like Kaspersky and Cisco, and then got an inside look at LSI's T1000 and T2000 chips that enable DPI in high-performance environments; we also looked at LSI’s fifth-generation network processor, the APP 3000, which now encrypts and decrypts packets at up to 1.5 Gbit/s
Cisco's ASR-9000
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment May 26, 2009 : Cisco's Doug Webster and Ian Hood talk to Joe Braue about the ASR 9000 aggregation router and explain how the ASR 9000 is doing for the edge what the CSR1 did for the core
ANDA Networks
LRTV Custom TV - Comments (5) May 15, 2009 : ANDA Networks' CMO explains how the current economic downturn has hurt Carrier Ethernet growth. He also talks about Carrier Ethernet 2.0 as a reality rather than a concept and predicts the Next Big Thing in Ethernet technology
Alcatel-Lucent's AA VPN Solution
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment May 14, 2009 : Manish Gulyani, director, Business Services Strategy and Marketing – IP Division, talks about the choices that enterprise users have for managing application performance over the WAN and how Alcatel-Lucent's Assured Application VPNs can help service providers
Alcatel-Lucent Pushing for Broad Collaboration
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment May 2, 2009 : Alcatel-Lucent's Patricia Lopes talks about why operators need to reach out to third parties, even those are potential competitors, to create a better end-user experience. She also talks about some of the business models that are possible
The Reality of the Connected Home
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 21, 2009 : Aditya Kishore from Heavy Reading talks about the reality of the connected home and how the challenge of putting video over wireless and a low return on investment are still major stumbling blocks for the players in this game
Credit Crunch Bites Down on Pay TV
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 21, 2009 : Aditya Kishore from Heavy Reading talks about the short- and long-term consumer responses to the credit crunch in terms of pay TV services, where cost saving domiminates
Multi-Platform Video for Service Providers
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 21, 2009 : Aditya Kishore from Heavy Reading tells us about a recent research report which found that 90 percent of service providers believe that multi-platform video distribution will be a requirement for their business within 5 years.
LSI Multicore Processors
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 17, 2009 : Jim Anderson, VP Sales Marketing at LSI, talks about the problems that mobile networks are having handling the traffic demands of social media, video on demand, real-time video conferencing and video streaming. LSI's range of multicore processors provide a cost-effective way to accelerate the industry's realization of any-to-any communication
Future of Optical
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 15, 2009 : Mark Feuer and Leo Spiekman, general co-chairs of OFC/NFOEC, talk about FTTx deployment, the effect of the recession on carrier spending, and the drivers of global growth in optical networking
Wavesat's 4G Architecture
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 15, 2009 : Raj Singh, president and CEO of Wavesat, discusses 4G networks in developing countries and what challenges device developers face in moving toward 4G
JDSU’s New Tunable XFP
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 12, 2009 : JDSU executive Alan Lowe talks about the latest announcement, a tunable XFP, which he calls 'the Holy Grail of optical communications'
Build It and They Will Come
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 9, 2009 : Jeff Cole, Director of the USC Center for the Digital Future, tells us that TV will become ever more important in our lives and will provide ever more revenue – but the cost of free TV will still be advertising
The TV Experience - Redux
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 9, 2009 : Ericsson's Kurt Sillen explains how the boundary between viewer and producer is becoming blurred and that a personal relationship between viewer and service provider stands to change the way we perceive TV advertising
The Future Is Ubiquitous Internet
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 9, 2009 : Ericsson's Erik Kruse talks about how the connected devices of the future will change how we live our lives, how we do business, even how we manage our relationships
Alcatel-Lucent Unveils Its Evolved Packet Core
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 8, 2009 : Alcatel-Lucent announced the final piece of its end-to-end LTE platform strategy, the evolved packet core. Basil Alwan talks about the importance of LTE as an IP architecture and some of the driving factors for it
Buying In to Connectivity
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 6, 2009 : Ericsson'e Eugene Sarmiento talks about the importance of the Digital Living Network Alliance and how operators are now making home networking part of their offering to consumers
Ericsson's Alan Delaney
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 6, 2009 : According to Ericsson's Business Development Director, HD video on IPTV is no longer a niche product. Improved picture quality, lower bit rates, and bandwidth optimization have increased the reach of HD onto multiple viewing platforms
Ericsson's Miguel Blockstrand
LRTV Custom TV - Post a comment April 6, 2009 : Ericsson's Senior Product Manager explains that deploying converged TV successfully requires a knowledge of the viewing behavior associated with different devices as well as the importance of differentiation in a highly competetive market
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