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10/03/2011
NAGRA Buys SIS Business From Sigma Systems
NAGRA purchased Sigma Systems’ Subscriber Information Service (SIS) business. As part of the deal, Sigma will continue its product development and deployment support associated with the launch of the SIS business for NAGRA. "Sigma Systems is the preeminent developer of an SCTE-130 compliant SIS platform," said Paul Woidke, SVP and GM/Advanced Advertising for NAGRA, in […]
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10/03/2011
Mobile App Does Videoconferencing
Radvision’s new mobile application – the SCOPIA Mobile V3 – allows customers to participate in video meetings regardless of their location. The app, available through the Apple App Store, enables video conferencing, data collaboration with review capabilities, conference call control, moderation, and administration through an intuitive user interface. With click-to-participate capabilities, users can join standards-based […]
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10/03/2011
thePlatform Hires Vice President of Engineering
Michael Horwitz has moved from Comcast to become vice president of engineering at thePlatform. He will lead thePlatform’s core product development, testing and deployment, and oversee the company’s operational business intelligence, including capacity planning and metrics monitoring. He will be based out of the company’s headquarters in Seattle. Horwitz comes to thePlatform after spending more […]
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10/03/2011
Avail-TVN Powers Multiscreen in the Caribbean
Cable & Wireless Communications’ (CWC)’s Caribbean subsidiary LIME will launch multiplatform video services with Avail-TVN. The service goes commercial in Jamaica and Barbados in Q4, with expansion across the Caribbean to follow in 2012. LIME delivers landline, Internet, mobile and entertainment services to 14 Caribbean countries. Using adaptive bitrate (ABR) technology, Avail-TVN will provide up to […]
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10/03/2011
News And Views Re: The Changing Policy-Management World
The Quantum Network Suite, a policy management platform developed by telecom policy-control vendor BroadHop, has passed interoperability muster with all major deep packet inspection (DPI) solution providers, including Allot, Arbor, Cisco, Procera and, most recently, Sandvine.? ?The suite enables real-time network service control and dynamic scalability for fixed and mobile network operators. "[Our customers] are now […]
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10/01/2011
IPTV and Pluggable Optics
The MSO arena is undergoing a transition to Internet Protocol televison (IPTV). IPTV combined with other OTT traffic will accentuate the challenge of rapidly increasing IP traffic as residential customers access the vast selection of rich media content on the Web. In 2012, approximately 64 percent of consumer IP traffic ( Cisco VNI 2011) will […]