Qwilt, a provider of online video delivery and open video caching solutions, today announced that Telecom Italia, a provider of wireless and broadband telecommunications services, has deployed Qwilt’s open caching solution to boost network capacity and improve quality of over-the-top (OTT) streaming video for its more than 30 million customers. Telecom Italia implemented Qwilt’s solution to provide enhanced quality of experience (QoE) for its subscribers using online video and live streaming services from OTT content providers in Italy.
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the association representing the manufacturers and suppliers of high-tech communications networks, announced it will launch a lab for interoperability testing of network functions virtualization (NFV) technology. Expected to launch in early 2016, the TIA NFV Lab will be North America’s first vendor-neutral test bed for NFV technology.
ETSI has just released the latest specification on hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV), TS 102 796 V.1.3.1, which corresponds to HbbTV 2.0. The latest HbbTV release adds support for new capabilities including companion device support, HTML5 user experience and support for advanced video delivery features such as Ultra HD and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) to enhance the consumer experience. The HbbTV standard allows creation of TV services that combine broadcast and over-the-top content. This hybrid broadcast broadband TV standard creates a global open platform as an alternative to proprietary technologies and extends the user experience.
Tablet TV LLC, the joint venture between Motive Television plc and Granite Broadcasting Corporation, announced that it will begin taking pre-orders at 00:01 AM ET, Thursday, November 12th for TabletTV Plus, its inclusive TV Unplugged solution providing viewers with everything that television and the internet have to offer in a single place. Supplies of the TabletTV Plus user kit which includes the TPod tuner will be limited before the holiday shopping season and customers are urged to participate in the pre-order process by going to www.tablet-tv.com.