Home » Archives by category » News & Analysis » Delivery Networks
Delivery Networks
Top Story
Improving QoE for IP video services
The boom in OTT and TV Anywhere services is underlined by rapid growth in IP video transmission at all stages of the content lifecycle, and this is expanding greatly the scope and demand for quality assurance (QA) products. Even leading proponents of OTT services still admit there is...
Read article...
The increasing availability of fibre points that can be harnessed for outside broadcasting is leading to more interest in JPEG2000 among contribution providers who traditionally relied on satellite. Meanwhile, despite the benefits of using IP fibre links, satellite…
The trend towards cloud-based service delivery is creating a need for products that enable Quality of Service (QoS) over unmanaged networks, according to Swedish owned distributed video network technology vendor Edgeware. The company has developed a strategy called…
Consumers will play a key role in the battle between service providers and content owners over digital rights. That is the view of Cisco’s VP and General Manager for Digital Media Networks, Bart Spriester, who suggests: “Consumers will…
Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory at U.S. analyst firm The Diffusion Group believes Google should sell the Video Solutions group that makes up part of Motorola Mobility as quickly as possible, arguing that there are no synergies from…
The benefits of an increased focus on Quality Assurance (QA) are becoming clearer and include reductions in churn thanks to greater customer satisfaction, enabled by greater service quality, reliability and more proactive customer support. Reductions in operating cost…
Google is now the ‘frenemy’ of the U.S. cable industry. That is how Stephen Froehlich, Senior Analyst, Consumer Electronics at IMS Research, sums up the new landscape following the announcement that the Internet giant is acquiring Motorola Mobility,…
DVB-T2, the second generation DVB-T standard, will extend the life of digital terrestrial transmission and ensure it remains an important medium for free-to-air and public service broadcasting in the era of multi-screen HD services. DVB-T2 brings an immediate…
In this ANGA 2011 briefing, Adrian von Hammerstein, CEO at Kabel Deutschland, explains who needs ultra-fast broadband and why, given that one-fifth of customers are asking for the company’s 100Mbps package. He says Kabel Deutschland’s pioneering 1Gbps broadband…
The close Alcatel-Lucent and thePlatform partnership combines video management with CDN and client capabilities and the deep integration should help reduce time-to-market and improve Quality of Service, among other things.…
Philip Hunter considers the challenges facing multi-screen TV providers who need to scale their services, with insights from PCCW, Vivendi Mobile Entertainment (VME) and Canal Digital Norge, among others.…
Some of Germany’s major channel owners, broadcasters and platform operators largely agreed at ANGA Cable that 3D is an events-based experience with many challenges to overcome on a long road to mass market acceptance.…
Music channel MTV is producing content in 3D but remains sceptical about its potential to move beyond events-based viewing. The cost of production is among the barriers that mean it will not be a mass-market for some time.…
It looks like the developing HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) standard will halve bit rates compared to MPEG-4 AVC but there are questions about where the technology can be exploited, given the legacy HD set-top populations.…
Pre-show NAB news including: Civolution shows how companions can sync with TV for live or time-shifted content; Network fault and performance information; Innovative mobile broadcast TV demos: 3D, electronic coupons and Tweeting…
More new from March and early April including: Rovi launches Connected TV programme guide advertising trials; DIRECTV uses NDS Dynamic for addressable advertising; 13% of digital Pay TV subscribers now using VOD via STB...…
Service providers are still fighting to avoid becoming ‘dumb pipes’ who carry OTT content but cannot monetize it. They are being urged to become CDN providers who make money by enabling higher quality video delivery.…
Converged headends, flexible CMS, unified control and intelligence, mezzanine formats, adaptive live streaming…infrastructure is as important as content to the multi-screen business. Philip Hunter reports on developments from IP&TV World Forum.…
BSkyB is using its Sky News iPad app to encourage subscriber loyalty but the service is notable for many reasons, including the way it enables a new kind of TV, somewhere between lean-back and lean-forward.…
To compete seriously with Pay TV, OTT providers will have to deliver HD quality to large connected TV screens. Cisco says public CDNs cannot deliver the QoS needed, but telcos can.…
With 12 billion connected IP devices predicted by 2015, and IPv4 limited to 4.3 billion devices, it is time for IPv6. To make migration easier, Broadband Forum has launched a toolkit called Broadband Suite 4.0.…
Transcoders need to be more flexible and capable of supporting single point encoding for multi-platform OTT services. Apart from deployment flexibility, this will lead to reduced infrastructure costs.…
Service providers need to deliver multi-screen TV to counter the threat of over-the-top services. We asked market intelligence company MRG how these services can be monetized, differentiated and delivered, including ‘cloud’ versus home gateway.…
Ericsson’s new DSNG solution is designed to deliver the highest quality video so the value of events-based content can be maximised as the industry looks beyond 1080i HDTV. It will support diverse media contribution needs.…
DIGITAL+ launches ‘TV Everywhere’ offering; ARRIS launches whole-home convergence solution; The evolution of the EPG: now open for advertising and T-commerce; Yelo beats Telenet expectations for multi-screen viewing……
Discussions at Cable Congress 2011 included whether cable should pursue entertainment mobility or mobility in its own right, the opportunity for voice/broadband in the business market, recessionary performance and drivers for revenue growth.…
Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global, has outlined the three weaknesses that the cable industry must overcome in order to survive – all of them addressed via the company’s new Horizon home gateway.…
Cable Europe’s Manuel Kohnstamm says cable must deliver convenience to customers, including freedom of content. He also believes recent 1Gbps+ tests show the cable window of opportunity for high-speed broadband is becoming longer than expected.…
Whether multi-screen TV is a churn buster or a revenue earner, service providers need to keep a lid on costs. RGB believes it provides the scale, reliability and flexibility to make converged headends a reality.…
More news including: SKY in New Zealand is using thePlatform for its TV Everywhere offering; MediaCorp selects Ericsson to enable and manage OTT interactive TV services; Solid cable growth sets scene for Cable Congress in Lucerne.…
To help operators preserve existing investments, the CMAP architecture is evolving so there is an option to incorporate the M-CMTS. A downstream-only version, using super-dense edge-QAMs, can be the first step for migration.…
Connect with Videonet
