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Basil Alwan, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Division, tells us about recent telco TV trends, in terms of content, personalization, and network demand. He also explains that viewer profiling and targeted advertising are important strategies for monetizing IPTV and that ensuring consumer privacy is critical and is managed effectively in Alcatel-Lucent solutions
Is Steve McKay, CEO of set-top maker Entone really suggesting that set-tops are on death's door? Well, yes, but he'll also explain why that reality won't sink Entone. Also, he discusses lessons learned from one of the world's largest IPTV deployments, and he has some words for telcos who are afraid of broadband-fed video taking over their pay-TV businesses
Cable Digital News editor Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading editor Phil Harvey, and Contentinople publisher Scott Raynovich discuss the recession, price as a competitive weapon, and what cable really has to fear from telcos
Heavy Reading’s Aditya Kishore, NCTA's Kevin McGuire, and Verizon's John Harrobin offer differing views on the wisdom of telcos getting into the original content game
VUDU’s Edward Lichty discusses the company’s box, its service, and how the broadband entertainment provider is HD-ready and definitely not stopping at just plain old movie delivery
Pannaway’s Mark Carpenter talks about the recent changes within the access network, specifically the trend to stop copper deployment in favor of FTTH. He also explains how telcos can recoup some of their costs by offering customers HD content and high-bandwidth peer-to-peer applications
Tandberg Television’s VP of technology Matthew Goldman explains how HD is a different proposition for telcos and how they want to include converged services as part of their consumer experience. He also explains what the death of analog TV will entail
Ian Tapp from Tandberg Television (part of the Ericsson group) talks about his company’s new middleware offering. He explains how it is the first such product to be pre-integrated with IMS and why it’s giving service providers a true end-to-end solution
Heavy Reading's Aditya Kishore talks about the recent report on U.S. consumer trends within the Pay TV market. His data suggests that in the present economic climate, competitive pricing is seen as being more important than advanced applications.
Alcatel Lucent’s Patricia Lopes talks about how service providers are facing competition on new fronts. She explains why transforming to all IP networks is so important, what this entails, and how companies can create strategies for change
Ericsson’s Johan Bergendahl talks about the drivers for higher speed broadband in the home and the enterprise. He explains the different purposes served by fixed and mobile broadband and drills down into exactly how fiber-deep architecture and full-service broadband can reduce TCO for operators, and he shares his personal vision for the future
