While the usage statistics from online video sites and traffic reports about peer-to-peer activity justify the attention they’re getting, the vast majority of consumers are hardly abandoning their TVs for their PCs yet. Four percent of all adults over age 18 in the U.S. watch video online at home daily, and an additional 14 percent […]
Enea, Kontron combine on converged services platforms
Enea and Kontron said they are collaborating to create standard, scalable, network services platforms for the telecommunications industry. The systems combine Enea’s SA Forum-based, high-availability network software with Kontron’s modular AdvancedTCA/AdvancedMC hardware. By using standards-based components, OEMs can accelerate the development of carrier-class network systems such as media gateways, base station controllers, and session border controllers, while […]
Amdocs, IBM ally on BSS/OSS for triple-play providers
Amdocs and IBM are combining resources and portfolios to offer telecommunications services providers a set of products required to span and unite business support systems (BSS) and operations support systems (OSS). They’re calling the combination Customer Management, Revenue Management and Service and Resource Management. The pitch is that the combination of these products will help service providers […]
Annual shipments of IPTV boxes to hit 19M in 2010
Demand for IP set-top boxes is growing, and will reach 19 million units in 2010, up from 4.3 million in 2006, according to In-Stat. Compare and contrast those numbers with research from Strategy Analytics, which found just under 6 million homes worldwide at the end of 2006 tuning in to an IPTV service, and also projected […]
Homeland Security sets plan for service providers
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection has an online course it has devised for service providers to learn about its National Infrastructure Protection Plan. DHS said service providers “are key players in an industry whose facilities and systems are potentially at risk in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist […]
Qwest HSD, DirecTV subs contribute to Q4 profit
Qwest Communications posted a fourth quarter profit of $194 million, compared with a net loss of $528 million in Q4 2005. Revenue was essentially flat at $3.49 billion, up from $3.48 billion a year ago. The company added 165,000 Internet subscribers in the quarter, compared with 140,000 a year earlier. Qwest now tallies a total of […]
DirecTV turns in better-than-expected quarter
DirecTV Group added 275,000 customers during the fourth quarter, compared with 200,000 a year earlier, to reach a total of 15.95 million subscribers. In the past, DirecTV spent lavishly to acquire any new subscribers, but in the past year, it has been focusing on potential customers likely to take more expensive, higher-margin service packages. The company […]
Vignette hub delivers Web content to any Web device
Vignette has introduced its Digital Services Hub, a system that enables any company (including service providers) to manage and deliver rich multimedia content to any Web-enabled device through a single unified framework. The Digital Services Hub also provides tracking and analysis to ensure content reaches the intended audience. The initial offering, now available, targets telecommunications, media […]
Hughes Network Systems eyes $115M loan
Hughes Network Systems (HNS) has the option for $115 million in debt financing, in the form of an unsecured senior term loan facility. The initial lender is Bear Stearns Corporate Lending. HNS said it has until the end of the month to decide whether or not to enter into the loan agreement. If it does […]
Blonder Tongue realigns, shuffles management
Blonder Tongue Laboratories has realigned its structure under two newly-promoted executives. Emily Nikoo has been promoted to senior vice-president – operations, and Peter F. Daly Jr. has been named to senior vice president – marketing and sales. Blonder Tongue has consolidated its manufacturing, operational services, international operations and engineering functions, all under the direction of Nikoo, […]