Broadband Delivers Strongest Growth Since 2009
Third quarter broadband figures achieve 2009 levels of growth
Telecom operators increase market share as fiber shows strongest access growth rate
Asia remains dominant region, with China nearly doubling its broadband subscriber numbers
IPTV approaches 55 million subscribers as Europe holds on to top regional position against strong growth out of Asia
Broadband Forum work underpins the trends and sets course for a strong 2012 with new fiber, management, mobile backhaul and multi-service architecture initiatives
FREMONT, Calif. — Latest broadband and IPTV figures published by the Broadband Forum show a significant surge in growth in Q3-2011, with more new subscribers added in the quarter than at any time since early 2009. The figures also point to the growing importance of fiber as FTTH and hybrid FTTx deployments increase.
Overall broadband growth during the quarter, according to figures prepared for the Broadband Forum by Point Topic, is estimated at 17.4 million lines, bringing the global total to 581.3 million, a quarterly increase of 3.08% – and an annual growth rate of 12.89%.
“These are very healthy figures for Q3 and they demonstrate the ongoing strength of the broadband market,” commented Robin Mersh, CEO of the Broadband Forum. “We are especially pleased to see the trend in fiber technologies beginning to take off. Our G-PON certification program, launched in Q3 and with first certifications already in place, has been very widely welcomed and this is an indication that the market is ready for much further growth in this area.”
Technology – fiber shows strongest growth
The figures show that FTTx is now gaining ground on more traditional technologies. DSL continues to be the most dominant technology, adding more lines than any other in Q3. However, in percentage terms both FTTH and FTTx/hybrid technologies, showed the largest growth with over 8% overall, compared to 2.2% for cable modems and 2% for DSL. FTTx added just under 19 million lines in Q3 2011 – this is more than double the number in the same period last year and it continues to accelerate. This means that market share for fiber technologies – now at 16% – is fast catching up with cable’s 19.5%.
Broadband Line Market Shares:
DSL 61.5%
Cable Modem 19.5%
FTTx (inc. DVSL, FTTx+Lan, etc.) 13.5%
FTTH 2.5%
Satellite/mobile 1.8%
Other 1.3%
Source: Point Topic
Oliver Johnson, CEO of Point Topic said: “Hybrid FTTx will be where the action is over the next few years. Consumers are showing signs of being ready to pay for faster connections and the hybrid solution set is a cost effective way of getting relatively high speeds to them.”
Regional Growth and Top 10 Countries for Broadband
With a rise of almost 1.5% in the year, the proportion of broadband subscribers in Asia continues to increase. Results from other regions were more muted, although both Europe and the Middle East & Africa returned better numbers compared to the same period in 2011. The Americas also performed better in Q3 than Q2, with overall net additions in subscriber lines rising by 309,518.
Asia continues to dominate with over 10.3 million more subscriber lines added in the quarter, higher than in Q2 and the same quarter in 2010. With over 246 million lines in total, Asia now has 42.34% of the total market share in broadband.
Of the top ten countries, strongest growth continues to be in China, although strong growth in Russia has seen it improve its ranking to seventh place, fuelled partly by increases in IPTV adoption which has brought Russia into the IPTV top ten rankings for the first time.
IPTV – 6.06% growth and Russia joins the Top Ten
IPTV subscribers grew by 6.06% in the third quarter of 2011 and now total 54.4 million globally. IPTV continues to grow steadily, generating significant additional revenues as service providers work hard to make IPTV an integral part of their product package.
Asia, once again, is the fastest growing region for IPTV but European markets are strengthening on an individual basis and while some saturation is taking place there is fundamental strength in the market which has driven the region to a three year high in quarterly net additions.
IPTV Regional Market Share – Q3 2011:
Europe 43.26%
Asia 38.84%
Americas 17.39%
Middle East and Africa 0.51%
Source: Point Topic
The Top 10 countries for IPTV all reported strong growth. Russia is the major success story, entering the Top Ten for the first time and immediately occupying eighth place. Growth in France, the current world leader, is still very strong, in spite of the already high penetration rate, but China will soon take over the top spot, by sheer force of market size.
The Broadband Forum in 2012 – underpinning new technologies
With the strong push for more fiber deployments, the Broadband Forum’s testing and certification program for G-PON was a critical and timely announcement for the industry in 2011 and this work continues in 2012 as more vendors seek to achieve certification for their fiber products. At the same time the Broadband Forum will continue to expand this program to cover additional ONU modules and address XG-PON1.
The organization is also planning to build on its IPv6 work and MPLS in Mobile Backhaul (MMBI) initiative ensuring a smooth transition to LTE/4G. In 2012, it will publish important work defining the industry specifications for multi-service architecture and continue work on a TR-069 CWMP Conformance program, as well as launching new work in support of business services and machine-to-machine requirements.
Robin Mersh emphasized the importance of standards and certification programs: “Standards provide the foundation on which vendors and service providers can build their roadmap for development and deployment of products and services. Our task at the Broadband Forum is to provide the specifications and tools to ensure that global service providers and vendors can achieve standards based deployments. Doing so leads to interoperability and drives down the costs of deployment, encouraging innovation and faster rollouts of new services. One of our key new programs, Broadband Forum Certification, gives service providers world-wide the full confidence in the quality and competitiveness of their vendor equipment selection. We have made major steps forward with our MMBI and new G-PON Certifications and we intend to continue this work and introduce further programs in 2012.”
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Jan 8, 2012
Celeno bows new video-grade Wi-Fi chip
Celeno Communications will be showing off its new video-grade Wi-Fi chip at next week's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The CLR260 is a single PCIe WLAN chip powered by Celeno's OptimizAir and digital beamforming technology. The chip can be used in wireless home gateways and set-top box applications.
"With the introduction of the CLR260, Celeno now offers a full product suite optimized for robust wireless video streaming in the home," said Lior Weiss, vice president of marketing of Celeno. "Our 802.11n video-grade product line has been adopted by over 20 ODMs and OEMs to enable a range of OEM Wi-Fi products. Service providers can now implement a video-grade Wi-Fi-enabled home cost-effectively using Celeno-enabled devices. These could include broadband gateways enabled with 3 x 3 CLR260 5 GHz and CLR260 2.4 GHz, video bridges enabled with a CL1830 3 x 3 SoC, and set-top box and laptops leveraging on USB dongles enabled by a CLR250 3 x 3 USB/Wi-Fi chip, among others."
The CLR260 operates in both the 2.4 GHz and the uncongested 5 GHz frequency channels and works with legacy home networks, as well as new 5 GHz-powered portable devices.
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The CLR260 is a single PCIe WLAN chip powered by Celeno's OptimizAir and digital beamforming technology. The chip can be used in wireless home gateways and set-top box applications.
"With the introduction of the CLR260, Celeno now offers a full product suite optimized for robust wireless video streaming in the home," said Lior Weiss, vice president of marketing of Celeno. "Our 802.11n video-grade product line has been adopted by over 20 ODMs and OEMs to enable a range of OEM Wi-Fi products. Service providers can now implement a video-grade Wi-Fi-enabled home cost-effectively using Celeno-enabled devices. These could include broadband gateways enabled with 3 x 3 CLR260 5 GHz and CLR260 2.4 GHz, video bridges enabled with a CL1830 3 x 3 SoC, and set-top box and laptops leveraging on USB dongles enabled by a CLR250 3 x 3 USB/Wi-Fi chip, among others."
The CLR260 operates in both the 2.4 GHz and the uncongested 5 GHz frequency channels and works with legacy home networks, as well as new 5 GHz-powered portable devices.
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Amino picks Celeno's Wi-Fi platform for IPTV STBs
Amino Communications has selected Celeno Communications' Wi-Fi solutions for use in its IPTV set-top boxes.
Celeno's OptimizAir Wi-Fi chipsets will be used worldwide by Amino to help distribute IPTV and over-the-top (OTT) services throughout homes via Wi-Fi home networking applications.
With the deal in hand, Celeno is now a preferred technology partner for Amino. Financial terms of the agreement weren't released.
"With Celeno's field-proven Wi-Fi technology and rich Wi-Fi chipset portfolio, we are able to offer our telco customers devices that combine all the quality they've come to expect from Amino devices with additional wireless functionality," said Amino's CEO Donald McGarva.
Amino and Celeno will offer the following wireless joint solutions in the marketplace:
Wi-Fi/Ethernet bridges powered by Celeno's CL1830 SoC to wirelessly enable after-market IP set-top boxes, including the Aminet A130, A140 and A540. These bridges will enable whole-home wireless PVR functionality, allowing the consumption of centrally stored content anywhere in the home.
Wi-Fi/USB dongles powered by Celeno's CLR250 chip to wirelessly enable after-market IP set-top boxes to receive HD IPTV and OTT content.
"Our Wi-Fi portfolio provides superior home networking infrastructure to customers such as Amino, combining high performance for flicker-free video with the flexibility and ease of use required by consumers," said Celeno CEO Gilad Rozen.
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Celeno's OptimizAir Wi-Fi chipsets will be used worldwide by Amino to help distribute IPTV and over-the-top (OTT) services throughout homes via Wi-Fi home networking applications.
With the deal in hand, Celeno is now a preferred technology partner for Amino. Financial terms of the agreement weren't released.
"With Celeno's field-proven Wi-Fi technology and rich Wi-Fi chipset portfolio, we are able to offer our telco customers devices that combine all the quality they've come to expect from Amino devices with additional wireless functionality," said Amino's CEO Donald McGarva.
Amino and Celeno will offer the following wireless joint solutions in the marketplace:
Wi-Fi/Ethernet bridges powered by Celeno's CL1830 SoC to wirelessly enable after-market IP set-top boxes, including the Aminet A130, A140 and A540. These bridges will enable whole-home wireless PVR functionality, allowing the consumption of centrally stored content anywhere in the home.
Wi-Fi/USB dongles powered by Celeno's CLR250 chip to wirelessly enable after-market IP set-top boxes to receive HD IPTV and OTT content.
"Our Wi-Fi portfolio provides superior home networking infrastructure to customers such as Amino, combining high performance for flicker-free video with the flexibility and ease of use required by consumers," said Celeno CEO Gilad Rozen.
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Jan 1, 2012
THE BROADBAND 50 - 2011
1: IP migration: A perfect circle
It has long been apparent that IP transport will eventually reach near-ubiquity, driven by the virtuous circle (… wider use drives down costs, dropping costs drives wider use, wider use drives …). Still, few can legitimately say that they expected usage to grow so quickly.
Even with YouTube, Netflix and Hulu out there, nobody outside of Apple saw the iPhone or the iPad coming – and, more to the point, nobody saw the rampant growth in IP data demands that smartphones and tablets represent. That demand includes traffic on everyone’s own networks, in addition to the backhaul some operators perform on behalf of others.
The business market – SMBs, and eventually enterprise customers – also demand IP transport, of course. And with cable giving up on cellular? It looks like Wi-Fi hotspot networks are in many more MSOs’ futures, suggesting even more IP traffic.
So expect to hear more about myriad manifestations of the migration strategy, including DOCSIS, CCAP, MPLS, pseudowires and more. – Brian Robert Santo
2: This cloud thing looks like a winner
Everything, it would seem, is headed to the cloud. And why not? Cable operators can cut down on multitudes of servers and other equipment in data centers, while businesses can reap the rewards of virtualization.
For those cable operators that lack Comcast’s financial clout to build their own clouds, there are public, private and hybrid clouds, through various partnerships and cloud vendors, to consider. Cable operators are also able to cash in by providing Ethernet transport services to and from clouds for businesses.
Comcast’s Xcalibur user interface is cloud-based, and consumers got in on the act with services such as Apple’s iCloud and Amazon’s cloud-based storage.
Cablevision and ActiveVideo Networks partnered up on cloud-based interactive services several years ago, and last year, Cablevision added “Quick View” mosaics, which let customers personalize their viewing preferences through ActiveVideo’s CloudTV platform.
VOD content also made its way to the cloud for quicker, more efficient streaming services. – Mike Robuck
3: All hail Comcast
Comcast hit on all cylinders last year. CEO Brian Roberts once again took over the spotlight at The Cable Show with demos of the next-generation, cloudbased Xcalibur platform, which will march
Comcast toward the IP world, as well as a speed test running on a Comcast cable modem that broke through the 1 Gbps speed barrier.
Xcalibur, which was developed by Sam Schwartz’s Comcast Converged Platforms team, is headed to a major market deployment early this year before a more widespread launch later this year.
“Comcast's work on Xcalibur is superb,” said one industry insider. “Sam Schwartz did a fabulous job.”
Also at The Cable Show, attendees got a peak at the Technicolor device that will provision Comcast’s Skype service, which will bring HD video conference calling to home TVs, PCs, and compatible smartphones and tablets.
Comcast took the wraps off of a home security service using iControl’s software, and it announced that it was one of the investors in the start-up company.
Lastly, Comcast started reaping the rewards of being both a cable operator and a programmer. One example was earlier VOD windows for NBCUniversal programming. – MR
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It has long been apparent that IP transport will eventually reach near-ubiquity, driven by the virtuous circle (… wider use drives down costs, dropping costs drives wider use, wider use drives …). Still, few can legitimately say that they expected usage to grow so quickly.
Even with YouTube, Netflix and Hulu out there, nobody outside of Apple saw the iPhone or the iPad coming – and, more to the point, nobody saw the rampant growth in IP data demands that smartphones and tablets represent. That demand includes traffic on everyone’s own networks, in addition to the backhaul some operators perform on behalf of others.
The business market – SMBs, and eventually enterprise customers – also demand IP transport, of course. And with cable giving up on cellular? It looks like Wi-Fi hotspot networks are in many more MSOs’ futures, suggesting even more IP traffic.
So expect to hear more about myriad manifestations of the migration strategy, including DOCSIS, CCAP, MPLS, pseudowires and more. – Brian Robert Santo
2: This cloud thing looks like a winner
Everything, it would seem, is headed to the cloud. And why not? Cable operators can cut down on multitudes of servers and other equipment in data centers, while businesses can reap the rewards of virtualization.
For those cable operators that lack Comcast’s financial clout to build their own clouds, there are public, private and hybrid clouds, through various partnerships and cloud vendors, to consider. Cable operators are also able to cash in by providing Ethernet transport services to and from clouds for businesses.
Comcast’s Xcalibur user interface is cloud-based, and consumers got in on the act with services such as Apple’s iCloud and Amazon’s cloud-based storage.
Cablevision and ActiveVideo Networks partnered up on cloud-based interactive services several years ago, and last year, Cablevision added “Quick View” mosaics, which let customers personalize their viewing preferences through ActiveVideo’s CloudTV platform.
VOD content also made its way to the cloud for quicker, more efficient streaming services. – Mike Robuck
3: All hail Comcast
Comcast hit on all cylinders last year. CEO Brian Roberts once again took over the spotlight at The Cable Show with demos of the next-generation, cloudbased Xcalibur platform, which will march
Comcast toward the IP world, as well as a speed test running on a Comcast cable modem that broke through the 1 Gbps speed barrier.
Xcalibur, which was developed by Sam Schwartz’s Comcast Converged Platforms team, is headed to a major market deployment early this year before a more widespread launch later this year.
“Comcast's work on Xcalibur is superb,” said one industry insider. “Sam Schwartz did a fabulous job.”
Also at The Cable Show, attendees got a peak at the Technicolor device that will provision Comcast’s Skype service, which will bring HD video conference calling to home TVs, PCs, and compatible smartphones and tablets.
Comcast took the wraps off of a home security service using iControl’s software, and it announced that it was one of the investors in the start-up company.
Lastly, Comcast started reaping the rewards of being both a cable operator and a programmer. One example was earlier VOD windows for NBCUniversal programming. – MR
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Dec 23, 2011
DirecTV, AT&T rank highest in J.D. Power customer satisfaction study
Cable operators were shut out of the top spots in their respective regions in the latest J.D. Power and Associates 2011 residential television service satisfaction study, while AT&T and DirecTV posted the highest scores.
The study measured customer satisfaction with cable, satellite and Internet protocol (IPTV) television providers in four regional segments: North Central, East, West and South. In each segment, six factors were measured to determine overall customer satisfaction: programming, performance and reliability, customer service, cost of service, billing, and offerings and promotions.
For a fourth consecutive year, AT&T U-verse ranked highest in the West (with an index score of 686 on a 1,000-point scale) and South (687) regions. For a second consecutive year, AT&T U-verse also ranked highest in the North Central region (699). In the East region, DirecTV ranked highest with a score of 686.
Customers gave AT&T U-verse particularly high marks in the programming and offerings and promotions categories, which look at a variety of programming choices, services, member incentives and communications.
Among cable operators, Bright House Networks placed second in the South region, while WOW was second in the North Central region.
The 2011 U.S. residential television service satisfaction study was based on responses from 23,880 customers nationwide that evaluated their cable, satellite or telephone company-based provider. The study was fielded in four waves: November 2010, January 2011, April 2011 and July 2011.
The study also assigned "Power Circle" ratings for each video provider: a rating of five was among the best; four, better than most; three, about average; and two, "the rest."
The study also found that growth in residential television service revenues was being fueled by increased penetration of DVR hardware and additional viewing services.
DVR subscriptions among residential TV customers with cable service grew to 45 percent in 2011 from 38 percent in 2010. Among households with satellite TV service, 64 percent in 2011 have DVR boxes, compared with 59 percent in 2010.
In addition, the proportion of households with more than one DVR box also spiked up. Among households with cable service, 35 percent have multiple DVR boxes in 2011, compared with 28 percent in 2010. Among households with satellite service, this figure increased to 45 percent in 2011 from 40 percent in 2010.
"As prices continue to fall, penetration of HDTVs in homes has increased by 8 percentage points during the past year," said Frank Perazzini, director of telecommunications at J.D. Power and Associates. "Increased integration of HDTVs with multi-room DVR setups has been key to driving additional revenue for service providers. In fact, average monthly billing for triple-play customers, those subscribing to telephone, television and Internet service, climbed to $149.52 in 2011 from $140.90 in 2010."
The study found that video-on-demand (VOD) was a continuing bright spot for service providers this year. VOD viewership rose to 39 percent from 35 percent in 2010 among cable subscribers and to 18 percent from 16 percent among satellite subscribers.
"Regular VOD viewing improves loyalty," said Perazzini. "Thirty-nine percent of viewers who watch 10 or more hours of VOD per month consider themselves loyal to their provider, while the average among non-VOD users is 31 percent."
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The study measured customer satisfaction with cable, satellite and Internet protocol (IPTV) television providers in four regional segments: North Central, East, West and South. In each segment, six factors were measured to determine overall customer satisfaction: programming, performance and reliability, customer service, cost of service, billing, and offerings and promotions.
For a fourth consecutive year, AT&T U-verse ranked highest in the West (with an index score of 686 on a 1,000-point scale) and South (687) regions. For a second consecutive year, AT&T U-verse also ranked highest in the North Central region (699). In the East region, DirecTV ranked highest with a score of 686.
Customers gave AT&T U-verse particularly high marks in the programming and offerings and promotions categories, which look at a variety of programming choices, services, member incentives and communications.
Among cable operators, Bright House Networks placed second in the South region, while WOW was second in the North Central region.
The 2011 U.S. residential television service satisfaction study was based on responses from 23,880 customers nationwide that evaluated their cable, satellite or telephone company-based provider. The study was fielded in four waves: November 2010, January 2011, April 2011 and July 2011.
The study also assigned "Power Circle" ratings for each video provider: a rating of five was among the best; four, better than most; three, about average; and two, "the rest."
The study also found that growth in residential television service revenues was being fueled by increased penetration of DVR hardware and additional viewing services.
DVR subscriptions among residential TV customers with cable service grew to 45 percent in 2011 from 38 percent in 2010. Among households with satellite TV service, 64 percent in 2011 have DVR boxes, compared with 59 percent in 2010.
In addition, the proportion of households with more than one DVR box also spiked up. Among households with cable service, 35 percent have multiple DVR boxes in 2011, compared with 28 percent in 2010. Among households with satellite service, this figure increased to 45 percent in 2011 from 40 percent in 2010.
"As prices continue to fall, penetration of HDTVs in homes has increased by 8 percentage points during the past year," said Frank Perazzini, director of telecommunications at J.D. Power and Associates. "Increased integration of HDTVs with multi-room DVR setups has been key to driving additional revenue for service providers. In fact, average monthly billing for triple-play customers, those subscribing to telephone, television and Internet service, climbed to $149.52 in 2011 from $140.90 in 2010."
The study found that video-on-demand (VOD) was a continuing bright spot for service providers this year. VOD viewership rose to 39 percent from 35 percent in 2010 among cable subscribers and to 18 percent from 16 percent among satellite subscribers.
"Regular VOD viewing improves loyalty," said Perazzini. "Thirty-nine percent of viewers who watch 10 or more hours of VOD per month consider themselves loyal to their provider, while the average among non-VOD users is 31 percent."
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Oct 28, 2011
Cisco serves up wireless boxes to AT&T
Cisco is laying claim to an industry first with its new wireless IPTV receiver, which AT&T will offer across its entire footprint on Monday.
Cisco’s ISB7005 wireless receiver allows U-verse subscribers to send standard-definition and high-definition programming around a home via 802.11n Wi-Fi. The system also features Cisco’s VEN401 Wireless Access Point, which, along with the wireless receiver, is now part of the company’s Videoscape product stable.
“Never before has it been so easy to move your TV around the home to wherever it suits you,” said Joe Chow, vice president and general manager of connected home solutions for the Service Provider Video Technology Group at Cisco. “We are excited to reach this industry milestone, becoming the first to bring wireless TV to market with AT&T. Cisco is pleased to achieve new heights as AT&T’s wireless TV technology provider.”
The wireless platform delivers live TV channels and interactive services and also functions as a whole-home HD DVR, allowing consumers to view and manage DVR recordings wirelessly from a wired DVR in the home.
While AT&T customers will benefit from sending video content to areas that were previously not served through wires, AT&T saves on the time and money needed to wire a home.
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Cisco’s ISB7005 wireless receiver allows U-verse subscribers to send standard-definition and high-definition programming around a home via 802.11n Wi-Fi. The system also features Cisco’s VEN401 Wireless Access Point, which, along with the wireless receiver, is now part of the company’s Videoscape product stable.
“Never before has it been so easy to move your TV around the home to wherever it suits you,” said Joe Chow, vice president and general manager of connected home solutions for the Service Provider Video Technology Group at Cisco. “We are excited to reach this industry milestone, becoming the first to bring wireless TV to market with AT&T. Cisco is pleased to achieve new heights as AT&T’s wireless TV technology provider.”
The wireless platform delivers live TV channels and interactive services and also functions as a whole-home HD DVR, allowing consumers to view and manage DVR recordings wirelessly from a wired DVR in the home.
While AT&T customers will benefit from sending video content to areas that were previously not served through wires, AT&T saves on the time and money needed to wire a home.
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Oct 23, 2011
Pioneer picks Amino’s DVR boxes for IPTV service
Pioneer Telephone Cooperative has selected a DVR set-top box from Amino for its IPTV service.
Headquartered in Kingfisher, Okla., Pioneer serves more than 40,000 customers across more than 74 communities in western Oklahoma. The co-op was at the forefront of IPTV deployments in North America.
Pioneer is using Amino’s Aminet A540 DVR IPTV/OTT set-top boxes that include new system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors and improved over-the-top features. The new OTT features include HTML5 audio and video tags to support the new generation of televisual websites, plus HTTP live streaming (HLS) adaptive streaming technology. HTTP upgrade and recovery is also included, enabling remote firmware updating.
“We have a great reputation for quality of service and innovation, and we look for partners that share this ethos and commitment,” said Pioneer manager of broadband services Donnie Miller. “Amino products have proved to be very reliable in our testing and trials and popular with our customers. Additionally, Amino has a strong working relationship with our middleware partner, and they have a shared goal in ensuring we maintain our competitive edge in delivering the best and latest entertainment experiences to our customers.”
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Headquartered in Kingfisher, Okla., Pioneer serves more than 40,000 customers across more than 74 communities in western Oklahoma. The co-op was at the forefront of IPTV deployments in North America.
Pioneer is using Amino’s Aminet A540 DVR IPTV/OTT set-top boxes that include new system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors and improved over-the-top features. The new OTT features include HTML5 audio and video tags to support the new generation of televisual websites, plus HTTP live streaming (HLS) adaptive streaming technology. HTTP upgrade and recovery is also included, enabling remote firmware updating.
“We have a great reputation for quality of service and innovation, and we look for partners that share this ethos and commitment,” said Pioneer manager of broadband services Donnie Miller. “Amino products have proved to be very reliable in our testing and trials and popular with our customers. Additionally, Amino has a strong working relationship with our middleware partner, and they have a shared goal in ensuring we maintain our competitive edge in delivering the best and latest entertainment experiences to our customers.”
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Aug 28, 2011
Start-up targets cable's hospitality business
TiVus now has available its system for replacing hotel entertainment systems, directly challenging MVPDs that provide pay-TV services to the hospitality industry.
TiVus' twist is that it provides its system at no cost to hotels; it makes money with ad insertion, with ad revenue shared with the hotels.
TiVus' system is called e-SmartRoom, which it describes as a complete HD IPTV in-room Internet and entertainment solution. It makes use of installed coax, and it comes complete with 42" flat-screen HDTVs for every room.
Hotel guests get unlimited in-room movie rentals, free-to-guest HD channels, iPad interfaces, secure wireless internet (multiple devices) and access to an in-room printer (including fax).
In addition to sharing ad insertion revenue, TiVus will also share with its hotel customers proceeds from VOD and fees for wireless Internet access.
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TiVus' twist is that it provides its system at no cost to hotels; it makes money with ad insertion, with ad revenue shared with the hotels.
TiVus' system is called e-SmartRoom, which it describes as a complete HD IPTV in-room Internet and entertainment solution. It makes use of installed coax, and it comes complete with 42" flat-screen HDTVs for every room.
Hotel guests get unlimited in-room movie rentals, free-to-guest HD channels, iPad interfaces, secure wireless internet (multiple devices) and access to an in-room printer (including fax).
In addition to sharing ad insertion revenue, TiVus will also share with its hotel customers proceeds from VOD and fees for wireless Internet access.
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Oct 21, 2010
Pace Networks and Alphatron offer operators key to access Asia’s cable and IPTV market
Pace Networks has today announced that Singapore-based Alphatron Asia has become its first Asian Network Approved Partner (NAP), supporting the growth of analogue to digital conversion across the region.
By implementing Pace’s MDC1000 as a compact head end platform,, Pace and Alphatron will enable cable and IPTV operators to capitalise on Singapore’s high broadband penetration, extending their digital video and IPTV delivery to a wider subscriber base. Alphatron Asia will combine its local expertise with Pace Networks’ versatile and low cost solution to significantly reduce upgrade costs for operators and minimise potential disruption to services for customers. This will allow cable operators to deliver newer services such as Over the Top TV, IPTV and Video On Demand to what are typically less accessible subscribers, and to commercial multidwelling buildings such as hotels or hospitals.
Alphatron Asia, part of the Alphatron Group of companies, is a leading distributor of electronic components and equipment to satellite, broadcast and marine industries in Singapore. This is a region which has seen significant growth in digital TV, with more than two-thirds of TV-owning households now subscribed to paid services.
Lawrence Low, Managing Director of Alphatron Asia commented: “Our partnership with Pace Networks enables us to address a real challenge in the Asian market. Small operators have become increasingly frustrated about the fragmented, inaccessible nature of their subscriber base, which could previously only be reached with major infrastructure modifications. By working with Pace, we will be able to help both cable and IPTV operators open up new sources of revenue.”
Andrew Ward, General Manager of Pace Networks added: “With analogue to digital conversion plans quickly advancing in all major Asian countries and high projected growth for IPTV and cable, Pace Networks’ solutions offer operators a great opportunity to capitalise on the region’s progress. Our partnership with Alphatron Asia provides operators in the region with access to a versatile infrastructure platform that, combined with the local knowledge on how best to deploy our solution, will help them to optimise their digital offering.”
Pace Networks Approved Partners provide the technological expertise for operators in their local market, helping them to access the ‘last-mile’ of the delivery chain and ultimately to reach a wider subscriber base.
About Pace plc
Pace plc (LSE:PIC) is a leading technology developer for the global payTV industry, working across satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. Pace has one of the world's most experienced specialist engineering teams, developing intelligent and innovative products and services for both payTV operators and retail markets across the world.
Pace employs over 1200 people, in locations that include the UK, the USA, France, India and China. Pace's international headquarters are in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK.
About Pace Networks
Pace Networks, a specialised division of Pace plc, is opening up the market for advanced digital services by enabling payTV and other operators to reach inaccessible subscribers. The Pace Networks range of products is already opening up hard to reach markets for TV-led home entertainment with innovative products for the ‘last-mile’ of the delivery chain.
For more information on Pace Networks, please visit;
http://www.pace.com/networks
About Alphatron
Alphatron Asia was established in 1997 as a specialized value-added distributor to the marine electronics, broadcast and satellite industries in South-east Asia. By focusing on our core competency of value-added distribution, we have grown rapidly over the last few years, both in terms of products as well as geographical coverage. We now distribute products throughout ASIA in the marine, medical, broadcast and satellite markets.
In broadcast and satellite, we provide complete turnkey solutions for all monitoring and control requirements. As most customers move from an Analogue to a Digital environment, we provide products which ensure their operations run efficiently. We have local technical expertise to ensure that these products are integrated and function well in our customer's environment.21 October 2010
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By implementing Pace’s MDC1000 as a compact head end platform,, Pace and Alphatron will enable cable and IPTV operators to capitalise on Singapore’s high broadband penetration, extending their digital video and IPTV delivery to a wider subscriber base. Alphatron Asia will combine its local expertise with Pace Networks’ versatile and low cost solution to significantly reduce upgrade costs for operators and minimise potential disruption to services for customers. This will allow cable operators to deliver newer services such as Over the Top TV, IPTV and Video On Demand to what are typically less accessible subscribers, and to commercial multidwelling buildings such as hotels or hospitals.
Alphatron Asia, part of the Alphatron Group of companies, is a leading distributor of electronic components and equipment to satellite, broadcast and marine industries in Singapore. This is a region which has seen significant growth in digital TV, with more than two-thirds of TV-owning households now subscribed to paid services.
Lawrence Low, Managing Director of Alphatron Asia commented: “Our partnership with Pace Networks enables us to address a real challenge in the Asian market. Small operators have become increasingly frustrated about the fragmented, inaccessible nature of their subscriber base, which could previously only be reached with major infrastructure modifications. By working with Pace, we will be able to help both cable and IPTV operators open up new sources of revenue.”
Andrew Ward, General Manager of Pace Networks added: “With analogue to digital conversion plans quickly advancing in all major Asian countries and high projected growth for IPTV and cable, Pace Networks’ solutions offer operators a great opportunity to capitalise on the region’s progress. Our partnership with Alphatron Asia provides operators in the region with access to a versatile infrastructure platform that, combined with the local knowledge on how best to deploy our solution, will help them to optimise their digital offering.”
Pace Networks Approved Partners provide the technological expertise for operators in their local market, helping them to access the ‘last-mile’ of the delivery chain and ultimately to reach a wider subscriber base.
About Pace plc
Pace plc (LSE:PIC) is a leading technology developer for the global payTV industry, working across satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial platforms. Pace has one of the world's most experienced specialist engineering teams, developing intelligent and innovative products and services for both payTV operators and retail markets across the world.
Pace employs over 1200 people, in locations that include the UK, the USA, France, India and China. Pace's international headquarters are in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK.
About Pace Networks
Pace Networks, a specialised division of Pace plc, is opening up the market for advanced digital services by enabling payTV and other operators to reach inaccessible subscribers. The Pace Networks range of products is already opening up hard to reach markets for TV-led home entertainment with innovative products for the ‘last-mile’ of the delivery chain.
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http://www.pace.com/networks
About Alphatron
Alphatron Asia was established in 1997 as a specialized value-added distributor to the marine electronics, broadcast and satellite industries in South-east Asia. By focusing on our core competency of value-added distribution, we have grown rapidly over the last few years, both in terms of products as well as geographical coverage. We now distribute products throughout ASIA in the marine, medical, broadcast and satellite markets.
In broadcast and satellite, we provide complete turnkey solutions for all monitoring and control requirements. As most customers move from an Analogue to a Digital environment, we provide products which ensure their operations run efficiently. We have local technical expertise to ensure that these products are integrated and function well in our customer's environment.21 October 2010
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Jul 9, 2010
Global IPTV revenue to hit $46bn by 2014
The total number IPTV subscribers will reach 102 million in 2014, according to the multimedia Research Group. Robust broadband and IPTV investments have been driving growth as a means to meet and outperform cable and satellite competition. IPTV operators are using fibre in high-competition markets and advanced DSL such as channel bonding and VDSL2 in other (less competitive) markets. As a result, telcos have been discreetly improving their IPTV bandwidth capacity to sub-markets that need upgrades without overspending in markets that don’t require immediate upgrading, writes MRG.
The Eastern European IPTV market is moving quickly to early maturity, while ROW markets show faster gains than other regions. “As late as 2007, Eastern Europe had only a few IPTV trials or startups. Now, there are 16 fully operating IPTV operators and another 3-6 in trial,” said Jose Alvear, IPTV Analyst with MRG, in a statement. “These operators continue to grow their service base, because they have much greater technical and creative control over their service than their cable competition.” By 2014, Europe will have 45% of the global market, Asia 31%, North America 19% and ROW about 5%.
High ARPUs still favour Europe and US IPTV markets, with largest service and systems revenues also coming from these regions. Of the specific CapEx items tracked by the report, expenditures will grow from $3.1 billion (€2.4 billion) in 2010 to $5.1 billion in 2014, while service revenue will grow from $17.5 billion to $46 billion in 2014. Over 50 companies are profiled in the report, including many emerging markets in Eastern Europe and ROW. Despite many obstacles and competition, 23 IPTV SPs (mostly in Asia and Europe) will have exceeded the million-subscriber mark by 2014. “For many IPTV operators, STBs make up over 70% of capex expenditures,” said Alvear. “Therefore we can expect greater penetration of integrated hybrid, IPTV, and OTT STBs (including connected TVs with STBs embedded in TV sets).”
In the North American markets, all eyes have recently turned to Verizon and AT&T, each adding about 1 million subscribers in 2009. Since Verizon stopped signing new franchise agreements outside its existing footprint, speculation is growing that Verizon will switch from its QAM/IPTV architecture to an all IPTV (fibre-based) architecture for future franchises after 2010. Meanwhile AT&T, with no such technical constraints, is free to use a “discreet upgrade” approach to growing bandwidth using a mix of advanced DSL or FTTX as needed. Published: July 9, 2010 06.03 Europe/London By Robert Briel
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The Eastern European IPTV market is moving quickly to early maturity, while ROW markets show faster gains than other regions. “As late as 2007, Eastern Europe had only a few IPTV trials or startups. Now, there are 16 fully operating IPTV operators and another 3-6 in trial,” said Jose Alvear, IPTV Analyst with MRG, in a statement. “These operators continue to grow their service base, because they have much greater technical and creative control over their service than their cable competition.” By 2014, Europe will have 45% of the global market, Asia 31%, North America 19% and ROW about 5%.
High ARPUs still favour Europe and US IPTV markets, with largest service and systems revenues also coming from these regions. Of the specific CapEx items tracked by the report, expenditures will grow from $3.1 billion (€2.4 billion) in 2010 to $5.1 billion in 2014, while service revenue will grow from $17.5 billion to $46 billion in 2014. Over 50 companies are profiled in the report, including many emerging markets in Eastern Europe and ROW. Despite many obstacles and competition, 23 IPTV SPs (mostly in Asia and Europe) will have exceeded the million-subscriber mark by 2014. “For many IPTV operators, STBs make up over 70% of capex expenditures,” said Alvear. “Therefore we can expect greater penetration of integrated hybrid, IPTV, and OTT STBs (including connected TVs with STBs embedded in TV sets).”
In the North American markets, all eyes have recently turned to Verizon and AT&T, each adding about 1 million subscribers in 2009. Since Verizon stopped signing new franchise agreements outside its existing footprint, speculation is growing that Verizon will switch from its QAM/IPTV architecture to an all IPTV (fibre-based) architecture for future franchises after 2010. Meanwhile AT&T, with no such technical constraints, is free to use a “discreet upgrade” approach to growing bandwidth using a mix of advanced DSL or FTTX as needed. Published: July 9, 2010 06.03 Europe/London By Robert Briel
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