Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has been on a media blitz of late. It is the “current buzz” within the video as well as networking space and why not with projected 36 million subscribers by year 2009 (says MRG). Only with all these deployments of video services, can they all make money? (more…)
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) can be described as a system for encoding, transmitting, receiving and displaying a video stream on a Television where all transmission takes place over Internet Protocol (IP) packets and IP networks. Estimates by Parks Associates have IPTV achieving 60 million subscribers globally by the year 2011. While IPTV has some tremendous advantages over proprietary TV systems of old, few people openly discuss its similarities. In fact, many of these similarities restrict IPTV just as they restrict much older proprietary TV systems. What you should know about IPTV that its hype fails to teach. (more…)
At the recent NCTA in Las Vegas, Jacobs Rimell of UK announced the offering of a QuickStart SIP UE for mass device configuration and provisioning. QuickStart SIP UE addresses the needs of network service providers who are faced the need to configure and provision a rapidly growing spectrum of SIP devices in their networks. QuickStart software provides an easier way to bulk configure and provision these devices enabling service providers to move more quickly into offering support for SIP applications and CD devices. While certainly such an application performs a useful function for network service provider’s this may not be what CE device manufacturers had in mind as they struggle to differentiate themselves from their competitors, or is it? (more…)
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