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Steve McKay - 11/21/2008 9:40:00 AM
Is Steve McKay, CEO of set-top maker Entone really suggesting that set-tops are on death's door? Well, yes, but he'll also explain why that reality won't sink Entone. Also, he discusses lessons learned from one of the world's largest IPTV deployments, and he has some words for telcos who are afraid of broadband-fed video taking over their pay-TV businesses

TelcoTV Recap - 11/21/2008 9:30:00 AM
Cable Digital News editor Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading editor Phil Harvey, and Contentinople publisher Scott Raynovich discuss the recession, price as a competitive weapon, and what cable really has to fear from telcos

Carl Russo - 11/18/2008 3:30:00 PM
Calix's president and CEO Carl Russo talks about consumer Internet usage today, especially amongst the new 'Adult Millenials.' He also explains what service providers need to do to accommodate these types of customers

Challenge of HD - 11/18/2008 3:20:00 PM
Execs from Tandberg Television, Entone, and VUDU, plus Heavy Reading’s Adi Kishore, talk about the new challenges of HD lying not in the technology, but in content rights and bandwidth use

Cornering Content - 11/18/2008 3:10:00 PM
Heavy Reading’s Aditya Kishore, NCTA's Kevin McGuire, and Verizon's John Harrobin offer differing views on the wisdom of telcos getting into the original content game

VUDU's Edward Lichty - 11/14/2008 9:25:00 AM
VUDU’s Edward Lichty discusses the company’s box, its service, and how the broadband entertainment provider is HD-ready and definitely not stopping at just plain old movie delivery

RCN Metro's Felipe Alvarez - 11/14/2008 9:20:00 AM
RCN Metro president Felipe Alvarez says that even though a good chunk of his clients are financial services firms, the demand for bandwidth has increased – and keeps going up – even as the credit crunch and soft economy wears on

Pannaway - 11/13/2008 9:35:00 AM
Pannaway’s Mark Carpenter talks about the recent changes within the access network, specifically the trend to stop copper deployment in favor of FTTH. He also explains how telcos can recoup some of their costs by offering customers HD content and high-bandwidth peer-to-peer applications

Matthew Goldman - 11/13/2008 9:30:00 AM
Tandberg Television’s VP of technology Matthew Goldman explains how HD is a different proposition for telcos and how they want to include converged services as part of their consumer experience. He also explains what the death of analog TV will entail

Ian Tapp - 11/13/2008 9:20:00 AM
Ian Tapp from Tandberg Television (part of the Ericsson group) talks about his company’s new middleware offering. He explains how it is the first such product to be pre-integrated with IMS and why it’s giving service providers a true end-to-end solution

US Pay TV - 11/12/2008 9:25:00 AM
Heavy Reading's Aditya Kishore talks about the recent report on U.S. consumer trends within the Pay TV market. His data suggests that in the present economic climate, competitive pricing is seen as being more important than advanced applications.

Strategy for Change - 11/11/2008 1:25:00 PM
Alcatel Lucent’s Patricia Lopes talks about how service providers are facing competition on new fronts. She explains why transforming to all IP networks is so important, what this entails, and how companies can create strategies for change

Transmode - 11/10/2008 9:35:00 AM
Karl Thedéen tell us why Transmode is the 2008 Leading Lights winner in the category of Top IPO/M&A

Broadband Beyond Limits - 11/1/2008 4:45:00 PM
Ericsson’s Johan Bergendahl talks about the drivers for higher speed broadband in the home and the enterprise. He explains the different purposes served by fixed and mobile broadband and drills down into exactly how fiber-deep architecture and full-service broadband can reduce TCO for operators, and he shares his personal vision for the future

Web Wide World - Iceland - 10/31/2008 9:40:00 AM
Iceland wants to become the No. 1 destination for companies looking to outsource their green IT data centers

ECI - 10/29/2008 3:55:00 PM
Rafael Francis from ECI tells us why he thinks the company’s 9700 series CESR was voted Best New Product at the 2008 Leading Lights awards

RGTS - 10/28/2008 9:45:00 AM
Rockefeller Group Technology Solutions' Nick Vermeer talks about his company’s use of Hatteras Network’s MEF-compliant transport

Extreme Networks - 10/27/2008 11:45:00 AM
Extreme's Mark Showalter tells us about his vision for next-gen carrier networks

Network Transformation - 10/24/2008 11:15:00 AM
Alcatel-Lucent's Jean Philippe Poirault talks about transforming networks to all IP. He explains that there are a number of drivers for operators to make the change: Intensive competition to evolve, re-user cost and opex, and high demand for broadband services -- as well as the ability to create a platform that can handle new services. He cites recent Heavy Reading research on the cost of next-gen IMS versus legacy switching and explains how some of these costs are driving operators to embrace all-IP networks.

Soapstone - 10/23/2008 12:25:00 PM
Soapstone’s Esmeralda Swartz talks about the maturing of Ethernet, specifically the ability for carriers to now utilize Ethernet in a carrier-grade environment. She also explains Soapstone’s new focus on Resource and Service Control Plane framework.

Ciena - 10/23/2008 11:15:00 AM
Ciena's chief technologist Kevin Daines talks about the company’s recent acquisition of World Wide Packets and explains their agnostic approach to MPLS and PBT

Accedian Networks - 10/23/2008 9:30:00 AM
Accedian’s Patrick Ostiguy talks about metering SLAs for value-add and how companies can make more dollars from every packet. He also explains how the trend in the Ethernet services market is moving away from simple cost saving and toward better performance

Level 3 - 10/23/2008 9:30:00 AM
Jeff Tench from Level 3 talks about his company’s broadening portfolio of Ethernet products and explains how Ethernet is evolving from a simple cost-saving technology.

Leading Lights 2008 - 10/22/2008 9:45:00 AM
The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd. All the excitement of the 2008 Leading Lights awards brought to you through the magic of television.

ECI Telecom - 10/22/2008 9:35:00 AM
Laura Howard, CMO for ECI Telecom, talks about the recent milestones that have been passed in the journey toward network convergence and explains some of the challenges associated with this, particularly interoperability and network simplicity. She also tells us how she feels the current economic climate could affect the telecom industry

Fujitsu - 10/21/2008 11:45:00 AM
Fujitsu’s Sam Lisle explains the new trend of Connection-Oriented Ethernet and how it allows service providers for the first time to construct general purpose Ethernet optimized aggregation and transport infrastructures. He also explains how Fujitsu is integrating Connection-Oriented Ethernet into their Packet Optical Networking Platform product line.

Anda Networks - 10/21/2008 9:30:00 AM
Charles Kenmore, President and CEO of Anda Networks, talks about how his company has become the market share leader of Ethernet over TDM. He also explains how Ethernet 2.0 is less about cost savings and more about managed services, and he tells us how he has kept Anda ahead of the R&D curve.

LSI Redefining Communication - 9/30/2008 5:00:00 PM
As the demographics of our working population changes, the services that networks provide will have to evolve. Today we are already seeing demand for social networking and all forms of on-demand digital content. LSI sees the convergence of Web 2.0 applications, mobile applications, software as a service, and unified communications, and to deliver this, the next generation of networks and platforms will need to be service aware, applying intelligence, security, and control deeper into the network. LSI is creating the silicon and software for the various network acceleration engines that will be required

IBC 2008 - 9/15/2008 2:10:00 PM
Fritz Nelson gets all loved-up in Amsterdam for IBC 2008. It’s not all clogs, cheese, and canals though. IBC is the biggest broadcast show in the world and now has real relevance to the IPTV market. Ericsson’s Eugene Sarmiento and Peter Linder, Akamai’s Suzanne Johnson, Accedo’s Fredrik Andersson, and Open IPTV Forum’s Monika Gadhammar take us by the hand to guide us through the maze

Targeted Advertising - 9/15/2008 1:35:00 PM
Execs from Tandberg TV, the TIA, and Ericsson discuss the merits of targeted advertising to consumers, advertisers, and service providers

Digital Content Storage - 9/15/2008 12:55:00 PM
Ericsson’s Peter Linder and execs from storage experts Isilon and Edgeware talk about the challenges associated with high bandwidth capture as well as which part of the network is the best place to store media

Digital Rights Management - 9/15/2008 10:00:00 AM
The importance and challenges associated with managing content rights in the world of IPTV is discussed by execs from Akamai, Secure Media, and the Open IPTV Forum

Multi-Platform & Next-Gen Video - 9/15/2008 9:50:00 AM
Heavy Reading’s senior analyst Gabriel Brown discusses the latest research findings on what kind of content service providers are getting excited about and highlights the overwhelming attractiveness of pay TV

Marcus Liassides - 9/15/2008 9:45:00 AM
The founder and CEO of triple play service provider Inuk Networks talks about Igloo, the virtual set-top box for PCs and Macs

Suzanne Johnson - 9/15/2008 9:40:00 AM
Akamai’s Suzanne Johnson talks about global content distribution and the increasing use of high-definition video on the Internet

Eugene Sarmiento - 9/15/2008 9:30:00 AM
Ericsson’s head of IPTV sales development talks about the company’s new middleware offering and how it can help operators converge telephony, PC, and television services

Open IPTV - 9/15/2008 9:20:00 AM
The Open IPTV Forum is putting together industry standards to increase interoperability in order to accelerate the deployment of IPTV. We went to find out what it all means for service providers

Customer Premises Equipment - 9/15/2008 9:10:00 AM
Executives from Accedo, Tilgin, and Inuk talk about the advances being made in set-top boxes and their role within the IPTV infrastructure

Future Trends in IPTV - 9/12/2008 9:35:00 AM
A collection of industry heavyweights from opposite sides of the ring give us their own opinions on what the future of IPTV will be over the coming year. Topics include convergence, 21st-Century networking, targeted advertising, 4G, net neutrality, and the 100G network.

Carrier Ethernet 2.0 - 8/16/2008 11:00:00 AM
Carriers and equipment vendors the world over are starting to talk about a new generation of Ethernet services. More than just a connection, they're using the term 'Carrier Ethernet 2.0' to describe a service that's aware of the applications running over an Ethernet connection – a managed service that can even extend service levels to third-party networks

SeaChange: Internet Mindset for TV - 8/11/2008 3:00:00 PM
Companies like SeaChange are trying to help cable companies grasp the changing world being driven by an Internet mindset. Some of the key areas include providing an experience that gets to know viewing habits better to help the customer narrow down the viewing selection; time shifting, which, in the case of SeaChange is provided via its Restart TV service (essentially DVR capabilities without the hardware); and the social networking aspect of the Internet, where you can create like-minded groups which share viewing "affinity." With SeaChange's Affinity feature, customers can view listings from a laptop or PDA and create a profile that not only helps them get a more detailed selection, but which they can also share with their affinity group if they choose.

Mark Cuban - 7/31/2008 10:05:00 AM
The great American squint-off is here, pitting Mark Cuban against TechWeb's Fritz Nelson. In this interview, HDNet founder Cuban elaborates on his thought that the public Internet is not the next great distribution platform for high-def video. Cuban's also bullish on telco TV, noting that competition with cable pushes them to innovate more and to take care of their customers.

IPTV Quality of Experience - 7/28/2008 12:35:00 PM
SureWest Communications' Bill DeMuth, Tandberg's Ian Tapp, and Heavy Reading's Sam Masud comment on the lack of standards in IPTV Quality of Experience (QOE), particularly within the live network

Karen Cook-Hellberg - 7/28/2008 12:30:00 PM
Karen Cook-Hellberg, Solution Manager for Ericsson, explains consumers' perceptions of what IPTV means to them, particularly in the area of the personalized TV experience.

Ian Tapp - 7/28/2008 12:15:00 PM
Tandberg TV’s SVP Ian Tapp talks about the worldwide trends and areas of innovation in delivering IPTV.

Verizon’s Mark Wegleitner - 7/26/2008 8:05:00 AM
Verizon’s Mark Wegleitner gives us the skinny on why he considers FiOS an IPTV service, and what advantages FiOS has compared to AT&T’s U-verse. He also weighs in on 100-Gig networks, WiMax competition, and usage based pricing for broadband services.

Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO, Telus - 7/26/2008 8:00:00 AM
Telus CTO Ibrahim Gedeon says there’s more to life than just transport savings when a carrier switches to an all IP network. He offers some advice for carriers on that front, elaborates on what Google can’t do, and offers his point of view on metered broadband pricing and WiMax as a landline threat.

IPTV: Hope vs. Hype - 7/24/2008 12:55:00 PM
TechWeb’s Fritz Nelson gets an update on IPTV in North America from Light Reading editor Phil Harvey and Contentinople Publisher Scott Raynovich. The three discuss the importance of getting IPTV out to the consumer before tackling features such as interactivity.

EchoStar’s Dan Daines - 7/23/2008 5:30:00 PM
EchoStar’s Dan Daines says IPTV is a cost center at first, but it will pay off in the long run. And, while bandwidth is a limiting factor, carriers need to perfect 'do no harm' television service before they go attempting interactive applications

Joseph Ambeault - 7/23/2008 5:10:00 PM
Verizon’s Joe Ambault tells us how FiOS is shaping up, including new tools for interactivity and how it compares with other IPTV services in terms of quality, bandwidth,and pricing.

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