Tag Archives: Thales

IPTV Survey

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 […]

Service Delivery Platform Landscape

Following in the series of market landscapes such as On Device Portal, Fixed Mobile Convergence, Service Management, and a very high level one on Service Delivery Platform (SDP).  I’m presenting a richer SDP landscape, however, it is challenging to compare SDPs because of the vast scope of functionality and the numerous definitions that exist. A […]