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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 […]
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10/01/2011
5 Ways To Make Money With Bundling
Cable operators and communications service providers see huge opportunities emerging from the intersection between digital television and the Internet to create an interactive “anytime, anywhere” TV experience for their customers. This opportunity calls for systems that enable carriers to offer thousands of different subscription packages over different applications (like interactive TV, time-shifted TV, catch-up TV, […]
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10/01/2011
‘TV Everywhere’ Delivery: Lessons Learned From Wireless
For more than a decade, the wireless industry catchphrase was “anytime, anywhere communications.” In today’s world, that’s a reasonable expectation for voice calls, but consumers want more. The latest buzzword is “TV Everywhere.” However, a more accurate descriptor of what truly is available when it comes to video or high-bandwidth content is TV “a lot […]