The BBWF InfoVision Awards were announced last night. Firstly, congratulation to the Dial2do team for winning in the Best Service Category. Sean O’Sullivan (CTO Dial2do) along with Varun Aorora (CEO GotoCamera, winner of last year’s InfoVision Award) will be on the panel session I’m running on Thursday 28th Oct 1430-1545: Aligning to Developer Needs Using […]
Over the past few years I’ve interviewed hundreds of operators and suppliers in the TV distribution industry on deployment experiences, market requirements, competitive landscape, and technology trends. In the document below I bring a sample of some of my work in this space examining the evolution of Hybrid and Over the Top TV. If you’d […]
In a couple of weeks the main broadband event of the year will be held in Paris, the Broadband World Forum, October 26-28th, CNIT La Defense. By the numbers there will be 6000+ attendees, 280+ exhibitors, 200+ speakers, 125+ global carrier case studies & presentations. The latter number is key, like MWC (Mobile World Congress) […]
With the much anticipated launch of Google TV next month on Sony and Logitech devices, its getting crowded in the OTT (Over The Top) TV market. With CE (Consumer Electronics) manufacturers, middleware vendors, operators, web-based service providers, content owners, and a vast array of start-ups rushing to confuse the customer. I covered this in an […]
I came across this old presentation today on the business case for operators to open their network, shown below, some of the material is over 4 years old, especially on developer needs. Yet operators continue to ask developers what they need and developers provide the same answers, perhaps operators continue to ask in hope of […]
Hybrid TV is not new; it’s been within the industry’s lexicon for many years, the transition should not be a surprise. However, for many executives the shift to hybrid TV has been a quiet revolution. Especially given two of the telco industry’s most successful TV deployments, Verizon FiOS (2.9M customers in Q4 2009) and Orange […]
Early IPTV deployments showed customers expect firstly a broadcast TV experience. The on-demand experience is secondary. Hence the entry level IPTV bouquet (set of channels) must include the region’s ‘standard’ broadcast quality package. Hybrid TV is where an IPTV connection and either a digital terrestrial, cable or satellite connection are delivered to the STB (Set […]
The Broadband World Forum is the main telecommunication industry’s event for broadband, drawing thousands of attendees from more than 100 operator companies and all the top broadband vendors. Keynotes at the event came from industry leaders such as Hans Vestberg, CEO Ericsson, Jean-Phillip Vanot, SVP of Innovation and Marketing for Orange, and Mika Vehviläinen, COO […]
IPTV has been a long time in coming. Back in 1991/1992 at BT Labs I helped build one of the first VoD systems over DSL with Gavin Young‘s team. Nearly 20 years later, most of the major telcos have rolled out IPTV, e.g. China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, and AT&T. Global IPTV customer numbers are at […]
I’ve reviewed the impact video is having on networks in articles such as : The Mobile Broadband Explosion: Mobile Broadband finally reaches the Tipping Point The Internet’s gone Video: What does that mean to operators? Mobile Broadband and DSL Broadband: How do the customers’ experiences compare? Human Behaviour and Mobile Broadband Pricing One of the […]