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Comcast's CTO Tony Werner provides a network update on all the big cable themes: Docsis 3.0, tru2way, upstream channel bonding, and EBIF. He notes that Comcast will be lab testing upstream bonding equipment this year and rolling some out over the course of next year. That will not only speed up consumer upstream connections, but will also help the network handle advanced applications, like multicasting, more easily
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
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
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.
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 multi core processors provide a cost-effective way to accelerate the industry's realization of any-to-any communication
According to Heavy Reading's Adi Kishore, using affiliate sites to aggregate eyeballs is the way to maximize revenue, especially for the smaller niche content producers
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
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
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
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
Head of Sales Development Eugene Sarmiento explains how media can be moved within and outside the home using Ericsson's Connected Home Gateway software
Heavy Reading's Adi Kishore talks about the importance of multi-platform video distribution to service providers and the challenge of generating revenue from these services
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 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
Oran Cassem, Ericsson's VP for TV Services, talks about how close we are to the reality of converged TV, the importance of building killer platforms, and how Ericsson's Connected Home Gateway is facilitating this vision of the future
The Broadband Forum's Gavin Young says service providers will be using DPI and other techniques to get peak-to-mean traffic ratios in order. He also gives a tip of the beret to France for having more than half of Western Europe's IPTV uptake
Bollywood content house Shemaroo Entertainment doesn't just provide entertainment. In the Indian IPTV market, company director Jai Maroo says, Shemaroo is also taking on the role of sourcing, aggregating, and managing editorial for carriers
Open IPTV Forum's Huw Price-Stephens talks about the challenges facing IPTV, such as making applications portable between networks. He also notes that there is a challenge to make all the content available on IPTV networks easy enough for consumers to find
