The purpose of this CXTech Week 18 2021 newsletter is to highlight, with commentary, some of the news stories in CXTech this week. What is CXTech? The C stands for Connectivity, Communications, Collaboration, Conversation, Customer; X for Experience because that’s what matters; and Tech because the focus is enablers. You can sign up here to receive the CXTech News […]
Back in September 2012 I published this report “TV Delivery Evolution: Hybrid TV, Over The Top (Internet) TV and TV Everywhere (Multi-Screen) TV. Status Report and Projections 2012-2017.” A friend recently asked if they could buy the report, so I reread the material, and I was surprised at how far we have moved in the […]
A complete rewrite of the TV Delivery Evolution Report is now available, its now titled: “TV Delivery Evolution: Hybrid TV, Over The Top (Internet) TV and TV Everywhere (Multi-Screen) TV. Status Report and Projections 2012-2017.” The table of contents, figures and introduction are available to download here and shown at the bottom of this article. […]
Here is a link to an article on Web APIs are Transforming Enterprise Communications and Collaboration for No Jitter I was asked to contribute. The article reviews the status of web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces): Why they have become so important for enterprise communications and collaboration; the business strategies web APIs enable; some of the […]
For US payTV subscribers the ESPN bouquet of channels is in the basic package, they have no choice, they just have to pay for it. ESPN is owned by Disney, which owns other assets such as ABC Television Network, cable networks including ESPN, the Disney Channel, SOAPnet, A&E and Lifetime, 277 radio stations, music and […]
The Broadband World Forum continues to grow with attendees from 120 countries, 280 speakers (most were operators), 150 sponsors and exhibitors, 400 service providers and over 7500 attendees. Gavin Whitechurch and his team deserve much respect for transforming BBWF into the Broadband event of the year. At the session I chaired on next generation broadband […]
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 […]
We’re seeing lots of wishful thinking in the industry around being able to monetize QoS (Quality of Service) for consumer services. In part its coming from the current LTE (Long Term Evolution) sales push, which has an overly complex set of QoS capabilities given the limitations of the air interface. As well as the summer […]
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 […]
This article reviews some upcoming themes and the passed year’s themes. Looking Forward: MWC 2010 and some themes for the coming decade What will probably be the main themes of MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2010? Unfortunately, LTE (Long Term Evolution) will be a key focus of the show. I’ve discussed previously why most operators do […]