Monthly Archives: June, 2009
End of an Era… Start of an Era
It is just over a week after the DTV transition in the US and it seems that the transition has taken place with low levels of complaints. How much of this is down to the overall delay of the transition from February is hard to determine, but certainly the change-over will presage success in the [...]
Cooling of the IPTV Set-Top Market
The cooling of the IPTV set-top market as reported by Broadband TV News is an interesting development. IPTV set-top market is ‘cooling down’ : Broadband TV News. Much of the growth identified in the report was down to market launches which mop up the early adopters very easily. However, we have not seen the organic [...]
Server virtualization slims Microsoft Mediaroom model – FierceIPTV
It looks like after 10 years and much effort, that new server techniques and the massive dropping in server hardware costs may finally be making Microsoft TV an affordable solution for an operator. Server virtualization slims Microsoft Mediaroom model – FierceIPTV It used be said that the Microsoft solution needed football pitches of servers, but [...]
UK Network Neutrality fallen on the knife
Network Neutrality has fallen at the first hurdle in the UK, and this is not about traffic management. The BBC has raised concerns after it learned that BT’s Total Broadband traffic management platform was being used to throttle the speed at which customers view web based video sites, such as its own iPlayer service and [...]