IPTV
Motorola to acquire Bitband
Motorola has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Bitband, a provider of content management and delivery systems, specialising in video-on-demand for IPTV. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close in Q4 2009. Bitband will be integrated into Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility [...]
Altibox selects Harmonic’s VOD, digital mosaic solutions
Harmonic has announced that Altibox (formerly Lyse Tele), a telecommunications service provider based in Norway, has deployed Harmonic’s StreamLiner video servers, Armada ‘intelligent asset management’, and ProStream 8000 digital mosaic solution. The company informed the deployment will enable advanced IPTV video-on-demand (VOD) services and multi-channel mosaic viewing for Altibox subscribers across Norway and Denmark. Altibox [...]
Teliasonera, Alcatel-Lucent deploy 100Mbps access network in Finland
Alcatel-Lucent and Nordics operator Teliasonera have announced the deployment of the first 100Mbps VDSL2-based access network in Finland, enabling the delivery of a full-blown (high-definition) IPTV service offering across the country. Teliasonera’s fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) architecture makes use of fibre cables that are trenched from the operator’s central offices to the basement of (apartment) buildings. From [...]
China Telecom selects Alca-Lu for IP backbone
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a centralised purchasing contract with China Telecom, a telecom operator in China, to provide and maintain an IP/MPLS backbone across ten provinces (Guangxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Gansu, Xinjiang and Shanghai). Upon completion in October, China Telecom hopes to deliver advanced broadband services with improved quality. The contract, which is [...]
AT&T extends network integration contract with Alca-Lu
AT&T has extended Alcatel-Lucent’s contract for end-to-end multivendor network integration for AT&T U-verse. The AT&T U-verse portfolio brings together U-verse TV, U-verse High Speed Internet and U-verse Voice services all delivered over AT&T’s advanced Internet Protocol (IP) network using Alcatel-Lucent’s Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA). Under the latest agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will continue to provide [...]
Ericsson powers interactive TV for Ucom
Ericsson hs signed a deal with operator Ucom to bring interactive TV to viewers in Armenia. Ericsson informed that it will deliver its IPTV solution including GPON technology. IPTV allows viewers to experience the same type of interactivity on their televisions as they are used to on their PCs, with personalised features such as chat, [...]
SK Broadband selects Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS solution
Alcatel-Lucent has been chosen by SK Broadband (formerly known as Hanaro Telecom), a service provider in Souh Korea, to supply and maintain its IP service routing solution to support the operator’s real time IPTV service. Alcatel-Lucent said its IP/MPLS technology will enable SK Broadband to deliver advanced broadband services including real time IPTV services, high-definition [...]
Telefonica selects Alcatel-Lucent solution
Alcatel-Lucent has announced its collaboration with Telefonica in an interactive IPTV advertising proof of concept pilot for its Imagenio IPTV customers throughout Spain. Telefonica has relied on an application enablement solution from Alcatel-Lucent in a bid to bring increased interactivity and web 2.0 features to the TV experience of Imagenio’s IPTV platform. Alca-Lu has informed [...]
Turk Telekom selects Envivio Convergence series encoding platform
Envivio, a technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, has announced that its Convergence Series video headend has been selected for Turk Telekom’s IPTV project in Turkey. Turk Telekom will use Envivio 4Caster C4 SD and 4Caster HD30 HD MPEG-4 AVC encoders and the 4Manager NMS, to deliver an extensive [...]
Comstar-UTS selects NDS Master UI to improve IPTV in Russia
NDS, a provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, has announced that Comstar-United TeleSystems (Comstar-UTS), an operator of integrated telecommunications services in Russia and the CIS under the Stream brand, is deploying NDS Master UI, an intuitive user interface that seeks to transform the way content and features are presented on screen. Comstar-UTS has also [...]
