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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
The advertising market is down overall, but Transpera CEO Frank Barbieri says targeted mobile ads are starting to pay off for some of the world's largest content makers and carriers. Brand awareness and brand recall are high for some of the early adopters, and that early success is fueling more investment in the sector
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
Clearwire President Barry West talks about the company's deployment schedule and the nice devices ready for its WiMax network. He also gives a bit of commentary on the company's innovation network in Silicon Valley, a place for developers to experience 4G reality while they build applications
Verizon Wireless executive Roger Gurnani discusses the carrier's plan to help consumer electronics companies and network equipment firms build 4G-capable applications and devices. He also sheds light on VZW's femtocell plans and its 3G migration strategy
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
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
Genband improves its fixed/mobile convergence story with new products and capabilities. The company, with its partners, now has reach into the top wireline and wireless networks worldwide
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
Executives from Cisco, Motorola, Arris, and SeaChange offer a scattershot of opinions on how the cable industry can protect its advertising revenue and avoid losing ad dollars to the Internet and IPTV
At CTIA Wireless 2009, Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan discusses the mobile broadband boom, access independent gateways, and Alcatel-Lucent's new 4G product line
At CTIA Wireless 2009, we spent a lot of time talking about the future. But what about right now? How are service providers handling their customers and what could they be doing better?
At The Cable Show, we asked several executives to gauge the impact devices with tru2way, a new interactive technology for cable systems, will have on the retail market for cable set-tops, TVs, and other gear
Graham Finnie defines policy management and describes the controversy surrounding where in the network it should go. Also, he weighs in on the best way to manage deep packet inspection
Jay Rolls, SVP of Technology, Cox Communications, lists wireless, Docsis 3.0, and tru2way as his big tech priorities for the next year. He also gives some details about the Lafayette, La., Docsis 3.0 deployment
