Category Archives: Broadband
IBC comes around again… is this one about real IPTV?
Well September has rolled around again and IBC is coming. All of our mailboxes are full of bumf, invites and some that can only be described as spam for even the hardened IBC visitor. However what will it bring this year? Previous years have been about 3D and IPTV, and of course we cannot forget mobile [...]
Cable Company Expansion
I had to post about this, as it is the second time I have heard people talk about possible purchase options for Virgin Media today. Who really would be in the running for such a thing? Four Reasons to Buy Virgin Media — Seeking Alpha.
Targeted Broadband and Digital TV News
This is a reminder for many of you, and that is that this blog maintains an aggregate news feed of hand picked content that is pertinent to the Broadband and Digital TV industries, paying quite a bit of attention towards consumer devices such as STBs and other video/information devices. You can access this information off [...]
Industry Changing
Ten years ago, if you asked many chief executives of cable and satellite companies what industry they were in, most would have said TV. Those that were transitioning to MSOs, would say that they were in the Dual play or triple-play entertainment and communication services business. Today, I am not so sure that they would [...]
Bandwidth Change of Fortune
In 1998, I worked for a company involved with cable companies in Poland. As part of my role at the time, I had to work with our IT teams there and in one key respect we had a major problem. The main headquarters in an University of Warsaw co located building was connected to the [...]
IBC 2009 Approaching…
The blog has been a little quiet, but this has been down to some pretty intense project work for a major vendor. However IBC is quickly approaching and thoughts are now turning to what is coming and what I shall be looking at for my annual time there (although a little curtailed compared to normal [...]
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 [...]