7/2/2009 - Cable veteran leaves Vidiom to be CEO of Alticast's Americas unit as tru2way specialist gears up for a domestic growth spurt
6/30/2009 - To focus less on Joost.com as an online video destination site and more on selling its technology as a white label video platform
6/30/2009 - Consumer equipment trade body wants FCC to help create a portable downloadable security system that would succeed the clunky CableCARD
 by Dan Jones
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If You Build It With EBIF, Will Interactive TV Come?
6/3/2009 - With EBIF activity in full swing on a variety of fronts, cable is making one of its biggest pushes ever to achieve the long-sought promise of interactive TV. Though there are still some problems to overcome, the momentum toward interactivity is apparent, and it is heading in the right direction
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ANALYST NOTES
Gabriel Brown, Senior Analyst
LTE is an exciting new technology, but will it ever really take off if it doesn't support voice and SMS?
Sylwia Boguszewska (Analyst)The new entrant will have an edge over current operators as the first mobile operator to provide 3G services.
REAL WORLD RESEARCH
IPTV 2.0: Delivering the IP Promise
This report analyzes IPTV deployments worldwide, identifying the most successful and innovative providers and examining the next-generation IPTV applications and services they are developing. The report also examines the vendors most involved with IPTV 2.0 innovation and reviews their application roadmaps and most recent announcements.
A CABLE/MSO SECTOR RESEARCH SERVICE
EBIF: Cable's Practical Approach to Interactive TV
This report examines the prospects and challenges of using EBIF and profiles 19 suppliers that support EBIF activity in various ways. It includes an assessment of EBIF capabilities, pros and cons, deployment projections, the competition for ITV, and strategies and plans by MSOs, programmers, and suppliers.
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Alcatel-Lucent (5752), AT&T (1866), BellSouth (845), BT (1245), Cablevision (555), Cisco (5136), Comcast (1682), Cox Communications (787), Deutsche Telekom (795), eBay (Skype) (339), Ericsson (1512), France Telecom (939), Google (473), Huawei (953), Intel (1122), Juniper (1971), Microsoft (1083), Motorola (1391), Nokia Siemens Networks (2565), Nortel (3875), NTT (148), Siemens (1355), Sprint (1042), Telefonica (417), Time Warner Cable (882), Verizon (2478), Vodafone (490), Yahoo (338)
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| Broadband |
Access equipment (2070), Access technologies (2301), Broadband loop carriers / multiservice access nodes (379), Cable modem termination systems (CMTSs) (1027), Cable TV chips (244), DSL (2262), DSL chips (213), DSLAMs (691), Free-space optics (33), FTTx (2760), Gaming consoles (54), Gaming servers (22), Media adapters (21), Municipal networks (104), PON (1206), PON chips (207), Satellite (447), WiMax (850), Wireless LAN (350)
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| Cable Digital |
Cable Modems (574), Cable/MSO equipment (2750), CableLabs (403), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (250), Docsis (891), Embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs) (193), Head-ends (206), PacketCable (116), QAM (275)
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| Chips, Components & Subsystems |
ASICs & FPGAs (95), ATCA (456), ATM chips (13), Comm chips (2304), Dispersion compensators (148), Lasers (909), Modulators (158), Mux/demuxes (299), Network processors (912), Optical amplifiers (344), Optical channel monitors (91), Optical components (2780), Speciality fiber (90), Switches & OADMs (395), Transceivers (1222), Transmission fiber (415), Variable optical attenuators (138)
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| Ethernet |
10-Gbit/s Ethernet switches (1437), Access devices (257), ATM switches (332), Circuit emulation (16), Converged access (94), Ethernet chips (560), Ethernet equipment (2026), Ethernet over copper (216), Ethernet PONs (156), Ethernet services (1787), Ethernet technologies (532), Multipoint (124), Multiservice edge equipment (136), Multiservice provisioning platforms (612), Multiservice switches (383), PBT (Provider Backbone Transport) (244), Point-to-point (132), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (128)
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| IP & Convergence |
B-RASs (224), Cell/WLAN (75), Compression equipment (13), Core routers (1264), DNS (51), Edge routers (1628), ENUM (53), Fixed/Mobile Convergence (478), GMPLS (74), IMS (1048), IMS Control Layer (26), IMS Service Layer (26), IP equipment (1152), IP software (360), IP technologies (1452), IPv6 (90), Layer 3 VPNs (178), MPLS (683), MPLS (1737), Multicast (33), P2P (247), Pseudowire (Layer 2 tunnels) (128), QOS (346), SIP (381), Traffic managers (793), Wireline/Wireless (56)
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3G Evolution (167), Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (187), Carrier WiFi (213), CDMA (3G) (322), Core Network (159), EV-DO (117), Femtocells (24), Fixed Wireless (Microwave, etc.) (69), Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless (54), GSM/EDGE (391), HSDPA/HSUPA (295), IMS Core (43), Long-Term Evolution (LTE) (131), Mobile Advertising (21), Mobile Music (26), Mobile TV (100), Mobile Video (49), Mobile WiMax/WiBro (60), Mobile/Wireless (5460), Packet Core (54), Radio Access Network (219), TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G) (55), Transmission (35), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) (8), UMTS(3G) (298), Voice Core (20), WiMax (850), Wireless Backhaul (239), Wireless Chips (182), Wireless LAN (350)
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| Optical Networking |
40-Gbit/s transmission (430), Core optical switches (757), CWDM (289), DWDM (1816), Long-haul WDM equipment (620), Metro optical switches, ROADMs (1153), Metro WDM equipment (751), Multiservice provisioning platforms & add/drop muxes (369), Optical equipment (2027), Optical switches & crossconnects (395), Optical technologies (401), Sonet/SDH (1018), Sonet/SDH chips (344), Wavelength services (281)
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Anti-virus (27), Denial-of-service attacks (40), Encryption (92), Endpoint security (19), Firewalls (60), Intrusion detection & prevention (41), IPSec VPN (800), Security (1796), SSL VPN (861), URL filtering (11), User authentication (19)
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Activation (409), Billing systems (730), Content/software downloads (219), Customer relationship management (210), Data Integrity (47), Element management systems (36), Fault management (65), Inventory management (147), Mediation systems (202), Messaging (211), Middleware (67), Mobile location (38), OSS (2427), Performance monitoring (314), Policy control (244), Provisioning (535), Revenue assurance & fraud management (326), Service delivery platforms (SDPs) (297), Service management (188), Service-oriented architectures (293), Services (2179), Web gateways (51), Web services (108), XML (50)
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| Test & Measurement |
Access equipment Access test & measurement equipment (124), Comm chips Comm chips test & measurement equipment (28), Ethernet equipment Ethernet test & measurement equipment (162), IP equipment IP test & measurement equipment (115), MPLS MPLS test & measurement equipment (13), Optical components Optical components test & measurement equipment (110), Optical equipment Optical test & measurement equipment (876), OSS OSS test & measurement (1055), Sonet/SDH Sonet/SDH test & measurement equipment (1596), Test & measurement (1679), VOIP equipment VOIP test & measurement equipment (143)
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| Video (Sponsored by Ericsson) |
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (187), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (670), Content delivery network (CDN) (369), Content protection (230), DVRs (565), Internet Video (678), IPTV (3212), Middleware & business support systems (719), Set-top boxes (1477), Stored video servers (355), TV (3206), Video equipment (2366), Video services (3906), Video software (1256), Videophone (182), VOD (2410)
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| VOIP |
Application servers (181), Centrex (195), Conferencing (74), Contact centers (37), Enhanced voice (31), Enterprise (616), Media gateways (351), Messaging (65), Presence management (41), Residential (789), Session border controllers (390), Signaling gateways (102), Softswitches (1080), VOIP chips (161), VOIP equipment (3363), VOIP services (3693), VOIP software (593), VOIP VPNs (26), Wholesale (215)
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