Advanced Television

HGI adds Arcor

The Home Gateway Initiative (HGI), the industry body representing players in the home networking space, has announced the addition of Arcor to its list of operator members. Arcor is Germany's second largest telco. Arcor joins a current list of operators that includes Belgacom, BT, Deutsche Telekom, Fastweb, France Telecom, KDDI, KPN, NTT, Portugal Telecom, Swisscom, […]

February 13, 2009

ETSI approves FLO interface

The FLO Forum is pleased by the decision of the Joint Technical Committee (JTC) Broadcast to publish ETSI TS 102 589, "Forward Link Only Air Interface; Specification for Terrestrial Mobile; Multimedia Multicast." JTC Broadcast is a collaborative working group of EBU (European Broadcasting Union), CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization), and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards […]

February 13, 2009

Ericsson Connected Home Gateway

Ericsson will launch its Connected Home Gateway software at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, giving consumers the freedom to access and interact with their home multimedia devices, services and media, wherever they are. The gateway also enables one single entry point for IPTV and multimedia telephony services into the home. Installed in the home, […]

February 13, 2009

Viaccess for Globecast

Viaccess has been selected by GlobeCast to provide its Viaccess Mobile Broadcast service protection solution based on the OMA BCAST Smartcard profile for use in a key trial platform to facilitate the commercial launch of this technology in Europe. The objective of this platform is to demonstrate both the viability of DVB-H as a mobile […]

February 13, 2009

PacketVideo and Nagravision enable mobile TVs

Nagravision and PacketVideo, the software innovator powering the global mobile multimedia services, have introduced the first conditional access enabled version of the Telly device. Created by PV and combined with Nagravision's Mobile TV solution, Telly turns iPhones, WiFi-enabled phones, portable media players and PCs into mobile television sets. The product seamlessly decodes broadcast signals and […]

February 13, 2009

Star Mandarin Mobile in Australia

Star, the pay-TV operator, has launched Star Mandarin Mobile in partnership with digital media publisher News Digital Media and MNO 3 Australia. Star Mandarin Mobile is Australia's first Chinese language subscription based mobile TV service and is available to 3 mobile users at A$1 a day or A$4 a month. To start, the service features […]

February 13, 2009

Fashion TV HD Chooses AsiaSat 2 through RRsat

Asia’s leading satellite operator, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat) and Fashion TV (FTV) announced the signing of an agreement for C-band capacity on AsiaSat 2 to launch FTV HD, the new high definition channel by FTV, in Asia Pacific. FTV has also chosen once again RRsat Global Communication Network Ltd., a provider of comprehensive content […]

February 13, 2009

Motorola extends cable PON portfolio

Motorola has broadened its cable passive optical network (PON) portfolio with Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG) solutions through a strategic agreement with Alloptic. The agreement between Motorola and Alloptic provides Motorola with exclusive rights to offer Alloptic's RFoG solutions to cable operators worldwide. The addition of these new products to Motorol'‚s existing portfolio of RFoG […]

February 12, 2009

RGB for island NGN

RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, today announced that United Telecommunication Services (UTS), the parent company of TDS, the wireless cable service provider servicing the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Bonaire, has deployed RGB's Broadcast Network Processor (BNP) as a key element of its next-generation video delivery network. Working with Divitel, RGB's system […]

February 12, 2009

Growth in mobile traffic forecast

Cisco has released the results of a Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Mobile Forecast for 2008-2013, providing findings on a variety of IP networking trends driven largely by the increased use of mobile broadband applications. The Cisco VNI Mobile Forecast projects global mobile traffic to increase 66-fold between 2008 and 2013 with a compound annual […]

February 12, 2009