A senior Cisco executive has predicted that set-top boxes as we know them today could almost disappear as cable migrates to IP video, and services are increasingly driven by new, cloud-based infrastructures that support new screens such as Apple ‘s iPad. “Set-tops are clearly moving to the point where they are either a piece of […]
An increase in networked devices in the home, such as tablets, STBs, HDTVs, smartphones and web-enabled media players, has generated a much higher interest in and need for capable home network delivery systems. Although Wi-Fi networks are still the most dominant form of home networks, the demand for more bandwidth-consuming applications is causing service providers […]
Virgin Media is to begin testing internet speeds of up to 1.5Gb in east London. Using Virgin Media’s unique cable network, the trials will begin this month in partnership with four companies in the vicinity of Old Street in London, dubbed the ‘Silicon Roundabout’. If successful the 1.5Gb download and 150Mb upload service will be […]
Open IPTV platform YouView has published its final core technical specification for launch and announced further device partners. A single technical document, detailing the core YouView interoperability specification for launch is now available on the YouView web site. The YouView Core Technical Specification references the Digital Television Group’s D-Book 72 and provides a set of […]
At the 2011 NAB Show, Sencore announced the launch of a new line of video-on-demand (VOD) servers and solutions for content delivery networks (CDNs), a direct result of the company’s new global sales and market development partnership with Broadpeak. Under the new agreement, Sencorewill be the exclusive North American representative of the Broadpeak product lines […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released a fourth quarter market forecast report which tracks DSL, cable broadband, FTTH, and voice customer-premise equipment; residential gateways; and broadband subscribers. The broadband CPE market is much more dynamic now, with FTTH CPE coming on strong in many regions of the world, particularly Japan, China, and North America, […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released its quarterly Home Networking Devices market forecast report, which tracks, ranks, and analyses vendors that make residential gateways, broadband routers, HomePlug Powerline adapters, MoCA coax-Ethernet adapters, and home network attached storage (home NAS). “Sales of home networking devices grew 11 per cent in 2010, to $5.15 billion, on […]
In Q4 2010, 36.8 million broadband Consumer Premises Equipment units shipped, a 1.2 per cent increase from the previous quarter and a 0.8 per cent increase from the same quarter last year. Total revenues were $1.6 billion, remaining flat from the previous quarter and a 0.3 per cent increase from the same quarter last year, […]
Amino Technologies has secured a follow-on order to provide its hybrid/OTT technology to support Telecom Italia’s deployment of its Cubovision all-in-one multimedia broadband service. Launched in December 2010, Cubovision offers home TV access to a range of digital terrestrial TV channels, leading web TV sources, and pay-per-view films as well as personal content such as […]
Jungo, an NDS Group company and provider of unified software solutions for residential gateways, has launched Panorama, its next generation remote management system for DSL, Cable and Fibre service providers. Jungo Panorama enables the management of home Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) as well as broadband and video services, handling the connected home as a whole […]