Agama Technologies, the quality assurance expert, has announced the launch of version 4.0 of the Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for cable, DTH and IPTV operators – which includes a system-wide remake of the GUI, and a foundation restructure to strongly increase the solution’s openness and scalability. The Agama DTV Monitoring Solution is a complete and […]
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 […]
The future of German cable MSO KBW – put up for sale by its Swedish private equity firm owner EQT – is in the balance as Liberty Global raises its bid to $4.5 billion in an effort to beat off CVC Capital Partners who are said to have tabled $4.17 billion. A third bid had […]
Agama Technologies, the quality assurance expert, has announced the launch of version 4.0 of the Agama DTV Monitoring Solution for cable, DTH and IPTV operators. Visitors to Agama’s stand 179 at IP&TV World Forum will be able to see live demonstrations of v4.0, which includes a system-wide remake of the GUI, and a foundation restructure […]
ACCESS CO announced that AirTies has selected ACCESS’ NetFront Living Connect 2.0 as its DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) software solution of choice. NetFront Living Connect will be integrated into AirTies’ Media Gateways and STB (set-top box) devices, providing customers with advanced, DLNA-compliant media sharing capabilities. NetFront Living Connect is a DLNA Certified software solution […]
Virgin Media is to open a ‘private members’ club in a bid to increase awareness of its 100Mbps broadband and TiVo TV service. It will open ‘Our House’ at homelessness charity House of St Barnabas’ W1 venue on March 28th. In seven rooms Virgin Media will demonstrate products, including the TiVo and broadband lounge. Partners […]
Netgem has made its Home Cloud software development kit (SDK) available to application developers, Internet service providers and operator partners. Netgem is further developing its partner ecosystem to enable third parties to take advantage of its IPTV 2.0 open architecture. This application framework is designed for the development of live and on-demand TV and multimedia […]
Just 0.18 per cent of US households “cut the cord” between the fourth quarter 2010 and first quarter 2011, according to ESPN analysis of Nielsen households. This study defines “cord-cutters” as multichannel homes with a high-speed Internet connection that drop their cable/telco/satellite subscriptions, but retain their broadband connection to watch television. The current rate of […]
Tiered services becomes a reality as AT&T has confirmed it will soon cap its DSL bandwidth at 150 GB per month. Customers who use more data over three months will have to pay $10 for each additional 50 GB slice of data. This is potentially bad news for services like Netflix. A typical movie streamed […]
In a study on the growth and profitability of the media and entertainment industry released by Ernst & Young, cable operators showed the highest profitability among all media and entertainment sectors, and interactive media was the fastest growing sector within the industry. The report also reveals that, despite current perceptions, the media and entertainment industry […]