Espial Agrees to Acquire Kasenna

FTTN, Uncategorized, iptv | Monday, 07 July 2008

Espial agreed to acquire Kasenna. Espial is based in Ottawa, Canada with major offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, China, and Japan. Espial provides IPTV middleware and applications software. Kasenna is California based and provides video on demand systems as well as its own middleware software. The transaction is expected to close about July 9, 2008.

Espial has been working to move up the chain and become a prominent IPTV systems provider. KasennaIas was a spin off that has been providing video on demand systems for many years and also made a significant involvement. While Kasenna’s strong market presence and this acquisition will increase Espial’s presence in the market, it still has a lot of work to do.

Deutsche Telekom adds 38,000 IPTV subscribers in First Quarter

Uncategorized, iptv | Sunday, 11 May 2008

May 2008 – Deutsche Telekom revealed in its Q1 results 38,000 subscribers were added to its “T-Home Entertain” IPTV service, reaching a total of 154,000.

Sales of DSL lines reached 539,000 in the first three months of this year, and Deutsche Telekom reports that it now accounts for around 43% of growth in the German broadband market.

Deutsche Telekom total net revenue for the first quarter of 2008 reached €15bn, representing a year-on-year decrease of 3.1% due to a fall in revenue from the Broadband/Fixed Networks and Business Customers segments. Net profit for the same period reached €0.9bn, compared to €0.4bn in the same period of last year.

Deutsche Telekom seems to be struggling with IPTV as they previously stated that they had 150K subscribers signed up at the end of 2007.

An option to look at is bundling a standard set of IPTV channels into its basic broadband service. This will be straightforward for ADSL-2+ customers but more tricky for VDSL users. It could use ADSL-2+ for the standard offering and VDSL for premium customers.

This approach has worked very well in France. Telia Sonera’s IPTV service really took off only after it included IPTV channels in its basic offering. In Australia, we are gradually seeing more and more IPTV services from ISP’s such as iiNET - Premier League games; and TPG - an array of international channels.

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J6900A Triple Play Analyser available from Agilent Technologies
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:13:02 -0000
Agilent Technologies has introduced an innovative test and measurement service assurance solution that monitors and analyses Microsoft’s Mediaroom Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and multimedia software platform.
Future of TV and Video
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:39 -0000
How existing broadcast and cable TV are shifting into an open landscape including user generated video, IPTV, and video conversations? Where is the TV landscape going? - It's a landscape getting more and more challenging - securing distribution and getting access to consumers - Key is to figure out how to package TV and present to people in a way that is compelling and doesn't lose the editorial voice, but also to figure out how to make money of this business which is always evolving - Innovation - bring new things to this medium - TV is a medium which hasn't changed much in the past 40-50 years - Time to innovate, time to bring new ways of consuming and participating in television for it to prosper Can current TV broadcast be maintained? - People yearn for experience and current broadcasters can still provide some of these experiences - But some broadcasters have been complacent in regard to some of the changes going on and need to consider new ways of attracting revenue TV broadcasters as far apart from consumers now as they've ever been. Media should be singular Two components of what broadcasters do 1. Content (primary) 2. Distribution (secondary) One simple solution to the problems is content. None of it matters (how/where they get the content) if the content isn't compelling. You won't get any readers or viewers if you don't produce good content - No one cares about 'quality of presentation' they care about 'quality of content'. But you also need to produce a 'volume of content'. If you can do that you can win in any media We all create content - broadcasters & consumers We can now as individuals go into live broadcasting - 500 people in a crowd covering events live from their phones. Can TV win this 'live broadcasting' match? Broadcasters can pull the user generated content together? Content creation & editing - consumers can do this too All of us are in an information revolution where QUALITY of content is key. If you can distribute this content then you will succeed. If you're controlling a large amount of content (editorial) you have to have regular & effective quality control. If you have this you can win in a commodity market Rise of documentary as a form is attracting significant audiences (think An Inconvenient Truth), whereas previously a niche genre. This is just one example of changing content forms. If broadcasters are smart and adapt the new forms of content then they will succeed and have a successful future People consuming more and more short form video - YouTube is a fascinating example of the profiliferation of different forms of content - YouTube is an extention of people forwarding content - YouTube can promote broadcast content Moving towards 'salience-based aggregation' of content (away from time-based aggregation) - Sending content you think someone will appreciate - If I keep sending my friend crap he will no longer open my emails! This is true for broadcasters too TiVo launching this month - A bit of a yawn (i.e. not the revolution it would have been a few years ago) - People have already got used to the idea of consuming content on demand We now can be active in searching out what we want to see ourselves - at work you'll look at your favourites (content you know you like/care about). At home you turn on the news and discover content you didn't know you cared about - key is credible, usable content you care about What does the consumer actually care about? What are they looking for? - People want content that is more relevant for them. They don't want a top-down media experience - Look at the success of YouTube! YouTube is still struggling to build an economic model - if Google hadn't come along they would be a very different business today - but while you need to take economic factors into account, ultimately the most important thing is what the consumer wants Previously all you had to worry about was distribution - Large viewership, easy money. It's much more interesting now - How do I get my audience interested in this? How do I get advertisers interested in this? Gruen Transfer - spend a lot of time talking about the low end ads (the screaming low end ads). They only need to get a few people viewing their ads to make money. With the changing nature of content (i.e. short form video) and advertising models, why don't we have millions of little ads dropped into a certain, tangled video stream rather than placed on television (when people may just turn it off)? You've got to produce as much as you can at a low price, but you've also got to produce some Mercedes along the way. People are beginning to make choices based on content - if you have this mix of 'base level content' and 'quality content' it's a good model for world domination! Three ways we consume information 1. Read 2. Listen 3. Watch These are the three ways news/content providers need to dominate. Media organisations must be able to do all three to succeed
Even the Luddites will switch to IPTV
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0000
IPTV - internet protocol television - is coming, and it will destroy the television model that has been in place for half a century.
Even the Luddites will switch to IPTV
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0000
I HAVE a friend who reads some of this column some of the time. If I use technical words - anything containing kilo, mega, or…
AT&T-Dish Break Signals Cloudy Weather For Satellite TV
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:50:00 -0000
As AT&T rolls out its own IPTV offering, it may see its satellite TV partnerships as insignificant to its overall strategy.
Lemon Way Introduces IPTV Banking (ComputerWire)
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:43:59 -0000
France-based mobile banking and trading software vendor Lemon Way has introduced an IPTV application for bank account and transaction management.
Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies?
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:34:00 -0000
Piranhaa writes "I currently use an IPTV box that runs software by Minerva Networks. When you ssh into the box, you are greeted with a BusyBox v1.00 (ash) shell. It's clearly running a flavor of Linux (uname -apm outputs: Linux minerva_10_0_3_99 2.4.30-tango2-2.7.144.0 #29 Wed Mar 16 16:16:16 CET 2005 mips unknown). However, when you look at their Web site there is no publicly available source code. Since the GPL in both BusyBox and the Linux kernel require that anyone using and distributing the binaries of this software make source available to everyone, what would one do in order to enforce this? I've personally emailed Minerva and left voicemails with no reply." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
IP Traffic To 'Double' Every Two Years
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:18:00 -0000
Stony Stevenson writes "Web traffic volumes will almost double every two years from 2007 to 2012, driven by video and web 2.0 applications, according to a report from Cisco Systems. Cisco's Visual Networking Index (PDF) predicts that visual networking will account for 90 percent of the traffic coursing through the world's IP networks by 2012. The upward trend is not only driven by consumer demand for YouTube clips and IPTV, according to the report, as business use of video conferencing will grow at 35 percent CAGR over the same period." I left the apostrophes around the word "double" in the title because the linked site has them, but for the life of me I can't figure out why. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Report: Aussie IPTV slow to load
Wed, 07 May 2008 16:16:00 -0000
Australian IPTV deployment is at least 18 months and possibly three years away, lagging many other global markets, broadcast regulator the Australian Communications and Media Authority said in a report released ...
Australian IPTV lags behind
Tue, 06 May 2008 14:00:00 -0000
The Australian internet video and IPTV market is lagging behind other developed countries, according to a report out today from the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
[EBS] NAB 2008 & planned release of Safe Worlds
Thu, 01 May 2008 22:40:00 -0000
e-Business Systems Ltd (EBS) Report on attendance at NAB 2008 media trade show in US & preliminary unveiling of Safe Worlds IPTV platform - plans towards initial commercial release National Stock Exchange of Australia
Protecting the IPTV/VoD infrastructure
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:17:34 -0000
To ensure the success of their new IPTV/VoD services, providers must build into their networks a comprehensive, network-centric security strategy right from the start.
Video Ezy to rollout IPTV platform to more than 1000 stores
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:48:43 -0000
Australia's largest movie rental franchise, Video Ezy and Blockbuster, today announced plans to rollout an IPTV delivery platform and set top box middleware to enable the delivery of an electronic video rental service to more than 1,000 stores.
Video Ezy goes with Irish telco for electronic platform
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:20:00 -0000
Video Ezy, one of Australia’s largest movie rental franchises, has selected Ireland’s DigiSoft.tv’s IPTV delivery platform and set top box middleware to enable the delivery of the Video Ezy Electronic Video Rental service, which will be rolled out in Video Ezy and Blockbuster stores in A/NZ.
Fibre driving triple play in US
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:57:40 -0000
BuddeComm’s USA Annual Publication, 2008 USA – Telecoms, Wireless and Broadband, profiles the fixed-line, wireless (mobile) and broadband markets in the USA. It also examines the convergence of these technologies with each other and with digital media such as digital TV and the emergence of new telecommunication services such as VoIP and IPTV. These markets continued [...]
Earth Hour 2008 ... watch it now on YouTube
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:23:45 -0000
I've been spending a lot of the last year looking at the rise of internet video (and have upcoming stories on IPTV and self-broadcasting coming up for Digital Media and SmartCompany respectively). It has been fascinating to watch how new...
Free TV heading way of vinyl
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:00:00 -0000
THE rise of internet television (IPTV) will soon see free-to-air networks "simply disappear", according to a senior media consultant.
NEC Targets $466m IPTV Business Revenue by 2010 (ComputerWire)
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:44:07 -0000
In a bid to tap into the growing IPTV market, NEC is planning to launch a full-scale internet protocol television business with Next Generation Networks carrier applications, with projected revenue of $465.67m in sales by 2010.
Viaccess to Acquire Orca Interactive (ComputerWire)
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:44:06 -0000
The Viaccess subsidiary of France Telecom has taken a significant step towards enhancing its product portfolio after agreeing to acquire Israel-based Orca Interactive, a provider of internet protocol television (IPTV) middleware and applications, for approximately $21.4m.
IPTV off the radar in Oz
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:17:00 -0000
Although Internet video seems to be going mainstream in the US, the idea of tuning in to IPTV content without needing to connect to a next gen console or home theatre PC is not catching on with Australian vendors, let alone consumers.
INDIA'S ESPN-STAR SIGNS SEVEN YEAR CONTACT FOR ASIAN TELECAST OF AUSTRALIAN TENNIS OPEN
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:23:50 -0000
India's ESPN-STAR Sports has announced a new seven-year contract for the Australian Open till 2014, covering cable & satellite, IPTV, DTH and terrestrial rights. ESPN-STAR Sports and Tennis Australia have also agreed to a ground-breaking collaboration for new media platforms such as mobile telephony and the internet...
IPTV: market developments and regulatory treatment
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0000
By changing the distribution model for video content, television delivered over internet protocol (IPTV) is increasing pressure for a review of broadcast regulatory frameworks so as not to stifle innovation and the diffusion of new services. This paper examines current market trends and regulation for IPTV and also provides information on developments in the provision of IPTV service in a number of OECD countries.
China's IPTV market disappoints
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:32:01 -0000
Internet TV operators in China appear to have severely overestimated the growth rate of the market, according to new research.
China's IPTV market disappoints
Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:15:00 -0000
Internet TV operators in China appear to have severely overestimated the growth rate of the market, according to new research.
Online TV revolution is unstoppable
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:54:55 -0000
Interesting story in The Australian last week on predictions of traditional TV as we know it being rendered obsolete by the Internet and P2P. This article supports much of what we wrote about in our April article, ipTV - the death of couch potatoes as we know them. Simon also discussed the emergence of ipTV with marketing and technology writer and journalist, Brad Howarth. This conversation is available for download from the HotHouse blog as a podcast.