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Vol. 2 No. 7 July 2008

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In This Issue...

TOP NEWS

Romtelecom to conduct IPTV trial this yearRomanian incumbent telecom operator Romtelecom’s

TV business manager, Miroslaw Smyk, said that the firm hasdecided to conduct an IPTV trial this year. But he did not mentionthe place where the trial would be conducted. Romtelecomcurrently runs a DTH platform called Dolce, which has alreadyattracted more than 500,000 subscribers. Despite the fact thatIPTV has yet to take off in Romania, Smyk believes that the

ETB

to unveil IPTV in Colombia by

March 2009 .................... 2

OKI develops Audience

Rating Information System

for IPTV .......................... 3

Telchemy announces over

30 million units of VQmon

shipped........................... 4

Alcatel-Lucent evolves its

Triple-play Service Delivery

Architecture .................... 5

UTStarcom to provide IPTV

equipment to SLT ........... 6

Sigma media

processors power Advanced

Communications’ IPTV STBs

across Japan .................. 8

UUSee lands Internet

TV broadcasting rights to

Summer Olympic Games...9

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country offers great opportunities for thedevelopment of this service. Currently, there aresmall-scale IPTV operations in the country,including Ines.

Sony, NTT, and several others decide agreeupon unifying technical standards for IPTVservices

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.(NTT), Sony Corp., and several othercompanies said that they have decided to unifytechnical-based standards for Internet Protocoltelevision (IPTV) services. A forum formed bythree telecommunications companies — KDDICorp., NTT and Softbank BB Corp. — wouldlead this standardization process. Around 15organizations and business, in addition to twoindividuals, have joined this forum. Themembers include the likes of Matsushita ElectricIndustrial Co, Sony, Toshiba Corp., Hitachi Ltd.,and Sharp Corp. and also five commercialtelevision broadcasters in Tokyo and JapanBroadcasting Corp.

On Telecom unveils IPTV in GreeceGreek telecommunications operator On

Telecom has unveiled its ON TV IPTV servicein the country. This service includes a video-on-demand (VoD) service with over 1,200 titleseach month, On Multiplex movies channel, pay-television packages including Discovery(comprising Discovery Science, DiscoveryWorld, and Discovery Travel and Living),National Geographic (NatGeo Wild, NatGeoMusic), Baby TV, adult channel Dorcel TV, andOn sports (NASN, EXPN Classic, ExtremeSports). Users would be able to play eightgames via On TV Games using the remotecontrol.

On Telecom will also provide all thechannels of Greece-based satellite serviceprovider NOVA. The pay-TV packages will costbetween EUR2 ($3.11) and EUR8 ($12.47),whereas the entire On TV package is availablefor EUR15 ($23.38) a month.

CARRIERS

South Florida gets AT&T U-verse IPTVAT&T has launched its U-verse TV and

U-verse High Speed Internet in parts of Miami-Dade and Broward counties. AT&T U-verseservices will be launched in Palm Beach Countyon July 28. AT&T U-verse brings together yourTV, broadband, and AT&T wireless services allon one bill, with unique features that provide anew level of integration, convenience andcontrol. AT&T U-verse TV and High SpeedInternet services are delivered over AT&T’sadvanced IP network.

Customers can currently order AT&T U-verse services in parts of dozens of communitiesin Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beachcounties. U-verse services will be installed forPalm Beach County customers beginning July28. AT&T will make U-verse services availableto more homes throughout South Florida on anongoing basis.

ETB to unveil IPTV in Colombia by March2009

Colombia-based telecom operator ETBis intending to commence the trials of its IPTVservice in November 2008 and plans tocommercially launch the service by March 2009.ETB CEO Fernando Panesso said that thetelecom firm plans to put in $51 million to launchthe IPTV service in Colombia in spite ofregulatory ambiguities. Although ETB does notown a pay-TV license (needed by the NationalTelevision Commission), it certainly has alicense for operating IPTV as a VAS (value-added service). Meanwhile, the operator’sbroadband user base is expected to increaseto 800,000 by 2012 from the current 300,000.

Slovenia’s T-2 to launch IPTV in CroatiaSlovenia’s alternative telecom carrier, T-

2, is contemplating entering the Croatian marketto launch an IPTV services in that country.According to media reports, the carrier, which


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is owned by Zvon Ena Holding, has alreadyinvested around $0.32 million for its Croatianoperations, which are likely to commence thisautumn. T-2 currently operates a triple-playservice in Slovenia. Unlike Slovenia, Croatia hasa well-structured IPTV market with T-HT’sMAXtv being the No. 1 player.

PTCL to launch IPTV in PakistanPakistan Telecommunication Company

Limited (PTCL) is preparing to launch its InternetProtocol television (IPTV) services in thecountry. Dr. Sadiq Al-Jadir, commercial SEVP,said that the telecom operator would providethis service using advanced technologies. IPTVis a multichannel TV service that is brought tousers’ homes through the Internet Protocol. Thisnew service by PTCL will enable its customersto get many digital-quality television channelsas well as voice telephony and high-speedbroadband over a single connection. PTCL iscurrently the biggest converged servicesprovider in Pakistan. It provides telecomservices like data and basic voice telephony,Internet, and videoconferencing, among others,to residential as well as business customers.

Kingston Park to become the first housingcommunity project in New Zealand to getnext-generation broadband and phoneservice

New Zealand-based firms TelecomWholesale and WorldxChange Communicationsare participating in a joint project to provide next-generation broadband and phone services onfiber-optic cable linked to households in ahousing community project, Kensington Park,located in Orewa, north of Auckland. KensingtonPark would thus become the first housingdevelopment project in the nation to access thisservice. The service would subsequently beexpanded into an additional 13 developmentsand 3,500 homes across New Zealand wherethe deployment of fiber-optic cable takes placeover the next one year. This project forms a

significant part of Telecom’s $1.4 billioninvestment plan towards the development ofnext-generation broadband technology.

Telecom Wholesale chief executive MattCrockett said that the advanced broadbandservices will enable its users to access severalapplications like video calling, HD (high-definition) calling, IPTV, and video-on-demand,among others. Telecom will test two variants ofbroadband-on-fiber, which would be deliveringa voice-only service or broadband capable ofsupporting download speeds of 30Mbps.

NEW PRODUCTS

OKI develops Audience Rating InformationSystem for IPTV

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. announcedit has developed “Audience Rating InformationSystem” for IPTV, which will be offered to theJapanese market. The system collectsviewership data to enable broadcastingcompanies to improve their services.

“We are pleased to introduce OKI’sAudience Rating Information System using oureVideo technology to efficiently deliver highquality video over IP networks,” said Masa Saito,general manager of IP Systems Division at Oki.“We have been proposing the technology tohandle audience rating information to ASTAP,Asia’s communication standard organizationand FG-IPTV in ITU, the UN’s agency forinformation and communication technologies, aswe believe open standards are important inimproving IPTV service and technologies. Wewill continue our activities within IPTV-GSI, theIPTV standardization initiative, to promoteinternational standardization to enrich IPTVservices.”

IPTV service is expected to grow astelecom carriers in Japan will increase their IPTVservice provisioning with the start of next-generation network (NGN) services, and the ITUworking on setting international standards.Current ground-based broadcasting systems


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have functions to collect viewership data suchas user preference and viewer history, as it isimportant for broadcasting companies to collectsuch information. However, with current IPTVservices, there are no equivalent userinformation collection functions.

To respond to such needs, Oki hasdeveloped IPTV Audience Rating InformationSystem to enable service providers, with theauthorization of users, to obtain informationabout when and which channel and programsthe users watched. The system will collect theviewership data in the form of an “audiencerating library” on the user’s device, which willthen be encrypted and sent to and registered inthe database server at the IPTV distributioncenter. This information will then be printed outas viewership reports which service providerscan offer to program producers.

The server offers scalability enablingservice providers to increase the number ofservers as viewership increases. The audiencerating library can be embedded in the set-top-boxes (STB) or in the IPTV. Those who haveSTBs or IPTVs without the embedded librarycan connect a home gateway (HGW) that hasthe audience rating library to collect viewershipdata. This system has already been tested inIPTV applications that utilize multicasting.

While recognizing user concern aboutmaintaining privacy, Oki will include opinionsfrom both IPTV service providers and users asit works towards standardization. Oki will addthe system to its product lineup that includesOki MediaServer, the video distribution serverfor IPTV, home gateways and set-top-boxes.

Telchemy announces over 30 million unitsof VQmon shipped

Telchemy Incorporated, a provider ofvoice-over-IP and IPTV fault- and performance-management technology, announced that over100 equipment manufacturers have successfullyintegrated Telchemy’s VQmon software into awide range of products, such as IP phones, VoIP

gateways, routers, session border controllers,probes, and analyzers. Over 30 million units ofVQmon have been shipped, representing anannual growth rate of over 200 percent. Thisnumber does not include an estimated 100million additional shipments by a number oflarge ISPs who license VQmon on a subscriptionmodel basis.

“Telchemy’s market leading position isbased on solid technology, a deepunderstanding of VoIP and IPTV performanceand an excellent product,” said Olga Yashkova,an industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan. “Theyhave a clear vision of the future of multimediaperformance management and a proven abilityto execute this vision.”

The VQmon product family incorporatesthe following:

- VQmon/EP, ideal for IP Phones andGateways to provide real-time VoIPperformance measurement andreporting. VQmon/EP generated QoEreports can be analyzed using a“collector” such as Telchemy’sSQmediator.

- VQmon/SA, designed for Routers,Probes and Analyzers to provide indepth analysis of VoIP traffic and IPperformance

- VQmon/SA-VM and VQmon/HD,integrated into Routers, Probes,Analyzers, and IP Set Top Boxes,providing a rich set of real time IPTVand IP Videoconferencingperformance metrics.

VQmon products are compact, reliable,efficient, and highly portable software agentsthat are integrated into a wide range of softwareand hardware platforms, producing accuratereal-time, actionable, performance and QoEmetrics for IP voice and video traffic. VQmon isunique in its ability to model the impact of timevarying impairments on user perceived quality,which has been shown to materially improve theaccuracy of QoE metrics.


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“We are pleased that VQmon hasachieved such a strong market position,deployed through our OEM customers intoCarrier, Cable and Enterprise networksinternationally,” said Alan Clark, president andCEO of Telchemy, “We work hard to ensure thatwe provide the great technology and supportthat enables our customers to be highlysuccessful and to enable network operators andnetwork managers to provide reliable, goodquality services to their users and subscribers.”

TVO launches video player using BrightcoveInternet TV platform

TVO presents its new online video player,created using the Brightcove Internet TVplatform. TVO has initially launched the playeron its Web site for kids, tvokids.com. Kidsopening the tvokids.com video player aregreeted by colorful menus that enable them tochoose channels of full-length curriculum-basedvideo content, broken down by user-friendlycategories like Music Videos, TV Shows, andExtras. Key features include a full-screen videooption, superior video and audio quality, anddirect links to related games and activities.

Using Brightcove’s open API, TVO’sFlash developers were able to create a highlycustomized player experience for tvokids.com,which already features 160 Flash-based gamesand activities and has been nominated in theExcellence in Children’s category for theupcoming 2008 Canadian New Media Awards.

This fall TVO will be rolling outBrightcove’s Video Player technology for itsadult, prime-time audience in a new, centralizedvideo console on tvo.org.

Alcatel-Lucent evolves its Triple-play ServiceDelivery Architecture

Alcatel-Lucent announced several newenhancements to its Triple-play Service DeliveryArchitecture, which pave the way for new,sophisticated, and innovative multimediaservices. Going beyond the initial, mass-market

solution requirements for IPTV, voice, andInternet services, the new architectureenhancements now enable consumers andbusiness partners to choose the quality ofexperience they want, for the content they careabout and at a price they are prepared to pay.As service providers evolve their networkarchitectures to support triple-play consumerbroadband services, their focus is shifting tomaximizing the return on investment. The newfeatures being introduced— including newhardware and software enhancements forAlcatel-Lucent’s Service Router portfolio — willenable service providers to offer theirsubscribers a high quality of experience for anexpanded portfolio of broadband content andapplications.

CONTRACTS

Telekom Austria selects Alcatel-Lucent toenrich IPTV offering

Alcatel-Lucent announced that it hasbeen selected by Telekom Austria, Austria’smajor service provider, to enrich TelekomAustria’s IPTV offering. The operator islaunching two state-of-the-art features — time-shift TV and high-definition TV (HDTV) —enhancing the service experience of its aonTVsubscribers. One week prior to the start of theEuropean soccer championship (Euro 2008),aonTV customers will be able to stop livebroadcasts, take a break, and then continue towatch the transmission of the program, thanksto Telekom Austria’s time-shift TV capabilities.Additionally, the launch of Telekom Austria’sHDTV service brings to the Austrian householdsthe next level of visual quality and TVexperience.

“From June on, we can offer the aonTVusers the newest Time shift TV functionalitieswithout additional investment. Our customerscan now enjoy a higher degree of convenienceand freedom to watch the programs they want,”said Hannes Ametsreiter, chief marketing officer,


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Telekom Austria TA AG and chief officermarketing, sales & customer services, mobilkomAustria. “Alcatel-Lucent is our trusted partnerfor the delivery of IPTV middleware and therelated integration services, enabling us toenrich our aonTV offering with a range ofinnovative applications.”

China Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent for IPmetro area network expansion

China’s biggest landline operator, ChinaTelecom, has inked a multimillion-Euro contractwith French vendor Alcatel-Lucent for expandinga countrywide IP metro area network. Alcatel-Lucent bagged this contract via Alcatel ShanghaiBell, its flagship firm in China. Under the termsof the deal, Alcatel-lucent will be responsible forproviding IP routing solution to China Telecom,which will allow the operator to deliver IPservices to business and residential users.China Telecom would also be providing multipleIP-based services like IPTV, 3G broadbandwireless, and virtual private network (VPN)services on one network infrastructure. AlcatelLucent Shanghai Bell president Olivia Qiu saidthat the deal reflects the confidence shown byChina Telecom in the vendor’s service routingportfolio.

UTStarcom to provide IPTV equipment toSLT

UTStarcom Inc. announced that it hasinked a multimillion-dollar deal for providing itsInternet Protocol television (IPTV) equipment toSri Lanka Telecom Public Ltd. Co. (SLT). Thefirm said that the new deal with SLT’s ally, JustIn Time Holdings Pvt. Ltd., will expedite theprovision of Internet, voice, and TV services toSLT’s 1.3 million customers in the island nation.The initial deployment of the IPTV equipmentfrom UTStarcom is capable of supportingaround 100,000 subscribers in the next coupleof years. The rollout will also allow the SriLankan firm to deliver video services on copperlines over the next three to four years.

Guangxi Telecom selects UTStarcom’sRollingStream IPTV platform

Guangxi Telecom has chosenUTStarcom’s RollingStream IPTV platform todeploy a new interactive advertising system.Guangxi Telecom is the first service provider inChina to deploy IPTV for building-based videoadvertising.

UTStarcom will provide Guangxi Telecomwith 3,600 concurrent IPTV streams for the initialdeployment of the interactive advertising systemin 14 Guangxi cities. In the first phase, set-topboxes will be deployed in supermarkets,department stores, office buildings, and GuangxiTelecom’s facilities in Nanning, Liuzhou, Guiling,Qinzhou, Guigang, Wuzhou, Beihai, and Baise.

UTStarcom’s RollingStream end-to-endIPTV system currently supports more than850,000 live IPTV subscribers globally andmaintains a current total system capacity ofmore than 2.5 million subscribers as a result ofrecent successful deployments in China withChina Netcom and China Telecom; in India withBharti Airtel, MTNL/Aksh and United TelecomsLimited; in Sri Lanka with SLT; in Japan withSoftbank; in Latin America with Brasil Telecom;and in Taiwan with Markwell.

BNS to design HD IPTV platform forIndonesia’s Multi Kontrol Nusantara

BNS has been appointed by Indonesiantelecommunications provider Multi KontrolNusantara to design and procure a turnkey HDand SD IPTV service platform. BNS’s IPTVService Platform design will enable MKN todeliver high- and standard-definition videoservices, including multicast, VoD, network PVR,timeshift TV, e-shopping, games, and others.

Built on a core fiber backbone, metroEthernet, and various broadband accessnetwork technologies, the network’sinfrastructure will enable cost-effective andhighly reliable delivery of multimedia servicesto residences, office buildings, and hotels.


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Central to BNS’s IPTV solution is thedesign of an IP-centric IPTV headend that willenable MKN to seamlessly and cost-effectivelymigrate to future-generation IP video systems.

BNS’s vendor-agnostic approach willprovide MKN with best-of-breed equipment fromBNS’s global partners to cover all major IPTVcomponents of the platform, including videoencoder, ingestion system, streaming server,content security, middleware, and IP set-top box.

Through its Content 360 businessdivision, BNS will also provide a content strategyand roadmap that will enable MKN todifferentiate its service with unique content thatis specifically relevant to the Indonesian market.

The service is set to be launched in theRasuna area in Jakarta by the end of 2008before being rolled out nationally within threeyears.

StreamGuys Inc. delivers ABS-CBNbroadcast TV from the Philippines globallythrough IPTV and Internet distribution

StreamGuys Inc., a streaming media andcontent delivery provider based in northernCalifornia, is now handling content delivery forABS-CBN’s IPTV service in Canada, Europe,Japan, and South Korea. ABS-CBNBroadcasting is the largest integrated media andentertainment corporation in the Philippines,with 35 television stations, 19 owned-and-operated AM and FM radio stations, and 10affiliated radio stations throughout thePhilippines. The broadcaster has been usingStreamGuys for content delivery for four years,mainly for on-demand streaming and downloadsof ABS-CBN programming over the publicInternet through its pioneering service, TFCnow!

According to Enrique Olives, director ofbusiness development for ABS-CBN Global,there are approximately 8 million Filipinos livingabroad. To ensure global delivery of itsprogramming, ABS-CBN has employed theInternet to penetrate markets where satellite andcable delivery is cost-prohibitive or unavailable.

StreamGuys recently won the IPTV businessafter four years of providing cost-efficientstreaming broadcasts and backend serverinfrastructure management for the Internetstreaming and download service at now.abs-cbn.com.

“There is a huge market for ABS-CBNprogramming outside of the Philippines, and it’simportant to make our content available on asmany platforms as possible,” said Olives.“Content delivery networks like StreamGuys areideal for IP-based broadcast distributionbecause you are essentially leveraging on theirrelationships with ISPs around the world insteadof just purchasing raw bandwidth. Thisrelationship allows ABS-CBN to focus on its corecompetency of producing content instead ofmanaging the network.”

StreamGuys delivers ABS-CBNprogramming as MPEG-4 standard-definitionvideo for IPTV and Windows Media for Internetstreaming and download services. For thegrowing IPTV service, StreamGuys built out acluster of servers in the United States, Japan,and the Netherlands to ensure plenty of networkcapacity. StreamGuys designed the IPTV serverinfrastructure to communicate directly with IPaddressable consumer set-top boxes, allowingconsumers to view content immediately ondemand.

“StreamGuys has proven valuable as aCDN that adjusts to our changing requirementsas we scale our network,” said Eugene Paden,head of IT operations for ABS-CBN Global.“They clearly understand the different qualityrequirements for watching content on TV asopposed to a computer, and manage thenetwork to maintain those various requirements.The network management has been critical aswe grow our customer base, and the positiveaspects of the scalability vs. cost ratio becomeincreasingly evident as we boost networkcapacity.”

Olives added that StreamGuys hasalways offered very competitive pricing as a


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content delivery network. “The flexible pricingthey offer has always been attractive from abusiness point of view,” he said. “The 24/7network management is essentially built-in tothe overall price, which is nice for both ourbottom line and the engineering side. We cango to sleep at night knowing they will take careof things if there is a connectivity issue into aspecific country or another problem with thegreater network.”

“The rise of the Internet and IPTV deliveryplatform for distributing high-quality broadcastcontent makes it possible for broadcasters toreach almost every corner of the globe. Therelationships between broadcasters and contentdelivery networks have grown stronger as IPTVnetwork infrastructure management becomesmore complex,” said Jonathan Speaker, COOof StreamGuys Inc. “We are proud to assistABS-CBN for reliable and cost-effective deliveryof its broadcast content worldwide, allowingthem to focus on producing content.”

Sigma media processors power AdvancedCommunications’ IPTV STBs across Japan

Sigma Designs, a provider of digitalmedia processing and wireless system-on-chip(SoC) solutions for consumer electronics, andAdvanced Communications Co. Ltd. (Adcom),a Japanese communications technologycompany, announced that Sigma’s highlyintegrated SMP8654 media processors will beused to power Advanced Communications’ IPv6set-top boxes (STBs) currently being deployedby major telecom companies, cable providers,hotels, convenience stores, restaurants, andKaraoke centers throughout Japan.Furthermore, the companies have entered intoa collaborative relationship to develop next-generation IPTV set-top boxes for the Japanesemarket based on Sigma’s SMP8654 mediaprocessor and Adcom’s iSense IPTV softwareplatform solution.

As part of this collaboration, Sigma’schips are integrated into Adcom’s new iSense

platform, which power the IPv6 STBs. TheiSense also comes with a software developmentkit (SDK) for next-generation networking (NGN)where all home telco-based and consumerelectronics will communicate in an “all-IP”fashion. The iSense platform is also being usedto power and build in IP-based functionality forset-top boxes manufactured by Japaneseconsumer electronics companies.

“We are pleased that Sigma’s mediaprocessors power the new iSense platform andIPv6 STBs and help us further expand into theJapanese IP STB business and consumermarkets,” said Yukihiro Yamada, CEO atAdvanced Communications. “We recognizeSigma’s world leadership in the IP market andwanted to be certain our highly flexible,expandable solutions used the mostexperienced, advanced audio/video andmultimedia processing technology on the markettoday.”

“We are excited about our continuedexpansion of IPTV customers in Japan,” saidKen Lowe, vice president of strategic marketingat Sigma Designs. “We work closely withworldwide telcos and set-top box manufacturersin the development of our industry leadingsystem-on-chip IPTV solutions. We intend tocontinue that focus to ensure their successfuluse by Advanced Communications and thecompany’s Japanese-based consumerelectronics customers.”

Advanced Communications’ IPv6 STBs— powered by Sigma’s SMP8654 mediaprocessors — support multicasting, video-on-demand (VoD), recording and playbackfunctionality, and digital rights management(DRM) requirements. The solution handlesmultitask performance by processing multiplestreams of content in tandem at speeds up to20Mbps, and advanced encryption technologyfor enhanced copyright protection. In addition,the product is supported by the Association ofRadio Industries and Businesses (ARIB), astandardization organization in Japan


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designated as the center of promotion of theefficient use of the radio spectrum and frequencychange.

Sigma’s SMP8654 media processorintegrates a complete complement of next-generation capabilities for a single-chip system-on-chip (SOC) solution with powerful multimediaprocessing, robust content security system,multiple on-chip CPUs, and a full complementof system peripherals. Its combination of on-chipprocessors and memory controllers yield animpressive 50 percent increase in overallperformance to provide the headroom neededfor next-generation IPTV service features. At thesame time, taking advantage of the latestmemory components and integratedperipherals, the SMP8654 can reducesubsystem cost by around 30 percent comparedto its predecessor, the SMP8634.

From a media processing standpoint, theSMP8654 offers a full complement of advanceddecoder engines with high-definition videodecoding, including H.264 (MPEG-4 part 10),Windows Media Video 9, VC-1, MPEG-2 andMPEG-4 (part 2), and the new AVS standard.High-performance graphics acceleration,multistandard audio decoding, advanced displayprocessing capabilities, and HDMI 1.3 outputround out its multimedia core.

Powerful content security is ensuredthrough a dedicated secure processor, on-chipflash memory, and a range of digital rightsmanagement (DRM) engines for high-speedpayload decryption. The SMP8654 also featuresa full complement of system peripherals,including a dual Gigabit Ethernet controller, dualUSB 2.0 controller, NAND flash controller, IRcontroller, and SATA controller.

SERVICES

UUSee lands Internet TV broadcasting rightsto Summer Olympic Games

UUSee has secured the Internet TVbroadcasting rights to this summer’s Olympic

Games and is on the verge of orchestrating oneof the world’s largest real-time interactive TVevents. UUSee is partnering with CCTV.com,China’s largest TV network and the onlyauthorized Olympic TV channel in GreaterChina.

UUSee will broadcast live the openingceremony, closing ceremony and all theimportant sporting action of the 2008 OlympicGames via the Internet in China.

In addition to the broadcasting rights forthe Olympic Games, UUSee was recentlyawarded an Online Video Broadcasting Licensefrom SARFT — China’s State Administration ofRadio, Film and Television — becoming one ofthe first online P2P video platforms to legallybroadcast TV programs and video content viathe Internet. Featuring the first product to add avideo search function to Internet TV, the newlyreleased client platform,

UUSee 2008, permits users to quicklyfind and record favorite video content fromvarious online video sites and enjoy customizedlag-free streaming video.

BUSINESS

S4C Digital Media, Wesley Clover invest$18.78 million in IPTV firm Inuk

S4C Digital Media and investment firmWesley Clover have reportedly invested £9.5m($1.78 million) in IPTV player Inuk, which isplanning to use this amount to develop theFirewire triple-play service. This service enablesusers to access broadband, telephony, and high-quality television services on their PCs. Thistechnology can currently be accessed only atstudent accommodations. Inuk had signed adeal with academic communications networkJanet for providing students with a 50-channelpackage for 9.99 pounds per month. S4Cbelieves that Firewire Technology will becomean acceptable digital TV platform. Around40,000 users have signed up for this service todate.


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Thomson joins Open IPTV ForumUnderscoring its commitment to open

standards in emerging technologies and mediaplatforms, Thomson has become a full memberof the Open IPTV Forum.

The aim of the Forum is to promote IPTVby making it easy for consumers to experienceand enjoy it, ensuring interactivity between alldevices, networks, and technologies. Takingadvantage of its expertise in end-to-end IPTVsolutions including network platforms and homedevices, Thomson joins forces with othertelecom industry leaders in defining standardsfor delivering new advanced multimediaservices and shaping the future of thebroadband market.

The Open IPTV Forum is a pan-industryinitiative, formed in 2007 by the world’s largestoperators and equipment vendors, to produceend-to-end specifications for IPTV, enabling a“plug-and-play” experience for users, withoutconcerns about the underlying technologies.This includes interoperability of devices withinthe home environment and with third partyapplications to enable a wide range of interactiveservices for the user. To achieve this ease ofuse in a complex application such as IPTV ischallenging, and depends on comprehensive,well-specified, and open standards.

Thomson is committed to thedevelopment and propagation of openstandards in all its activities, and currently hasa participating role in more than 60 internationalstandards development organizations includingthe ETSI’s TISPAN for IPTV standardization inIMS, the DVB Project and the HD Forum. Large,scaleable IPTV deployments have become areality, and compliance with internationallyrecognized open standards has been a keysuccess factor for Thomson.

Thomson is unique in being able toprovide a complete end-to-end solution for IPTVand triple-play, from headends to consumerpremises equipment. Thomson’s SmartVision is,according to analysts MRG Inc, the market

leader in IPTV video service platforms and videoservers. Thomson is positioned as an industryexpert with the most comprehensive andadvanced package of triple-play solutions.

USTelematics announces affiliate agreementwith Netflix

USTelematics Inc., at the forefront of theconnected-car revolution, announced arevenue-producing affiliate agreement withNetflix Inc.

Users of USTelematics’ VoyagerAutomotive Mobile IPTV, while using Voyagerconnected to the Internet, will become able toorder DVDs for play on Voyager in areas oflimited wireless coverage. The Netflix libraryconsists of over 100,000 movie and video titlesfor physical delivery, to either a home or avacation destination.

Voyager offers many features to familieson the road including a GPS-based gas pricefinder linked to MSN Autos Gas Price Finderfrom Microsoft and live TV programming fromseveral sources, wirelessly, while in motion.USTelematics CEO Howard Leventhal said, “Weare frequently asked about the presence orabsence of wireless broadband EVDO datacoverage in certain areas and the related effectson Voyager’s ability to deliver live video reliably.While well over two thirds of the U.S. populationis covered by EVDO, there are some traveldestinations that are not — like the bottom ofthe Grand Canyon for example. Voyager hasbuilt-in DVD and hard drives. In areas of limitedwireless coverage, it’s easy to just pop in a DVDmovie and keep the kids entertained withoutinterruption using Voyager on the road.”

Diva.AG puts entertainment at the fingertipsof consumers

Diva.AG is a digital distribution solutionsfor award-winning independent movies andclassics. In 2007 Diva.AG was spun off itsmother, Vendema, a Swiss publishing houseestablished in 1951, in a management buyout


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and offers a distribution solution to independentstudios and distributors wishing to accessemergent digital distribution opportunities.

Building on its legacy Diva.AG today hasoffices in Berlin, Beijing, Nagpur, Paris, and itshead-office in Zurich. Its licensors anddistribution partners are in Europe, NorthAmerica, and Asia, making Diva a truly globalorganization.

Globally, there are hundreds of digitalcontent retailers operating with differentbusiness models. Independent contentproducers and distributors value the assistancein getting their content to video-on-demand,IPTV, and mobile TV platforms to be viewed bynew audiences globally.

Diva.AG’s technical platform normalizesand manages all acquired content and metadataand makes it available in the various contentformats specified by its distribution partners.

This makes Diva.AG the interfacebetween two extremely diverse andheterogeneous sectors: content originators anddistributors, and emergent digital retailers. Bypooling the rights of many smaller rights ownersand offering them to a large number of digitalretailers, Diva.AG adds value to both sides thatwould otherwise have a hard time managingone-on-one relationships and the correspondingtechnology.

The video-on-demand market is currentlyworth EUR2 billion growing at an average of 33percent annually with the USA and advertisingfinanced viewing growing at more than doublethat rate.

Diva is managed by Kai Henniges, whohas previously been responsible for Web TV andmobile entertainment services for companiessuch as Cablecom, Switzerland’s largest cablenetwork, as well as Vodafone, the world’s largestmobile operator.

Mr. Henniges has 14 years of digitalmedia and marketing expertise and holds anMBA and LLM from the University of St. Gallen,Switzerland.

His partner and co-founder is JörgBoksberger a graduate in chemical engineeringfrom the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(ETH) Zurich, who has more than 20 years’experience in software development in thefinance and banking industries.

EVENTS

Rapid convergence of broadcast andtelecoms drives growth of mobile, IPTV, anddigital signage at IBC 2008

The rapid growth in the consumption ofbroadcast content on devices other than thetraditional TV screens is reflected across theexhibition, conference, and business briefingprograms at IBC2008.

IBC covers all aspects of the creation,management, and delivery of content. Recentyears have seen a steady rise in attendancefrom the telecoms sector as carriers and mobileoperators seek a better understanding of thebroadcast sector and evaluate IPTV and mobilemultimedia revenues as a supplement tostagnant or declining voice ARPU.

This year, the opening theme day of theIBC Conference on Thursday, September 11, isdedicated to “Content Access via the Web” andwill explore how consuming content acrossdevices as diverse as mobile phones, PCs,multimedia players, and games consoles isaffecting the traditional broadcast value chain.

“The Digital Dividend: HD, mobile,broadband or new media?” the theme onSaturday, September 13, will examine theoptions, opportunities, and issues that may arisewhen telecoms operators compete for spectrumreleased by the transition from analogue todigital terrestrial TV transmission.

Sunday’s theme, “Content production:technology, creativity and business in an era ofheadlong change,” will provide invaluable insightinto the broadcast sector’s perspective of thecreative and commercial implications of therapidly changing media landscape.


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Elsewhere in the conference program,Thursday’s Technical paper sessions will includean in-depth look at technical innovations in thearea of “IPTV and the networked home.”

Mobile will also be the focus of “WhatCaught My Eye,” in which an expert reports onthe notable innovations to be found on theexhibition floor.

For Sunday’s “What Caught My Eye”session at 11.00 a.m., Mike Short, VP R&D atTelefonica O2 and president of the Mobile DataAssociation will unveil the most exciting mobile-specific innovations to be found at IBC2008.

Monday’s program includes tutorials fromDVB & ETSI on “Open Standards, Technology& Implementation,” outlining the evolution of theDigital Video Broadcast standard toaccommodate a number of distributionscenarios including DVB-H for handhelds. IEThosts another tutorial on “Digital delivery &getting content to the consumer.”

Mobile, IPTV and Web TV products,services, and applications can be found acrossthe IBC exhibition. In addition, dedicated Mobileand IPTV Zones bring together innovativeapplication developers, content providers, andtechnology companies pioneering in theseimportant new fields. More than 30 companiesare exhibiting in the Mobile Zone, includingindustry leaders such as Qualcomm MediaFLO,MobiTV, and Nagravision, while nearly 50organizations from Aceedo Broadband to ZyXELCommunications Corp. feature in the expandedIPTV Zone.

Digital Signage — the use of IP-networked flat screens to distribute information,advertising, multimedia, and TV content in retailenvironments, transport hubs, and stadia — willhave its own Zone in response to the interestgenerated by an overflowing seminar on thesubject at IBC 2007.

Mobile, IPTV and Digital Signage will alsofeature in the 2008 IBC Business BriefingProgramme. Conceived to complement thepeer-reviewed IBC Conference, the free-

admission Business Briefings provide a platformfor content providers, application developers,and technology companies to share theirexperiences of the impact that mobile,broadband, and IP worlds are having on thecreation, management, and delivery of content.Early confirmed speakers include QualcommMediaFLO and Nagravision on Mobile; Dolby,Edgeware, Miniweb Interactive, the Open IPTVForum, and Tandberg on IPTV; and Sony onDigital Signage.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE

IPTV middleware spending spree expectedCommunications market research firm

Infonetics Research reported that the combinedInternet protocol television (IPTV) and switcheddigital video (SDV) equipment market increased12% sequentially to $1.3 billion worldwide in1Q08.

Infonetics’ report, IPTV and SwitchedDigital Video Equipment, Services, andSubscribers, indicates revenue growth is beingdriven by growing numbers of service providersrolling out new IPTV networks or expandingexisting networks to support more subscribers.The market is also getting a push from cableMSOs introducing switched video capabilitiesinto their digital TV networks to free upbandwidth and offer more high definition (HD)content to their subscribers.

“While most of the segments we track inthe IPTV market are seeing consistent quarterlygrowth, IPTV middleware is going to be anespecially interesting segment to watch. We’reexpecting an IPTV middleware spending spreeover the next few quarters because a lot of theearly IPTV service providers are running intoscaling issues with their off-the-shelfmiddleware.

Those providers are going to have toreplace their IPTV middleware with a morerobust solution to replace or augment their first-generation deployments.


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Middleware issues are one of the mainroot causes of IPTV rollout delays, so earlyhiccups have to be addressed quickly,” said JeffHeynen, directing analyst for IPTV at InfoneticsResearch.

Other report highlights:- The number of IPTV subscribers isforecast to hit 93 million worldwide by 2011- Worldwide IP set-top box revenue grew10% in 1Q08 over 4Q07- Motorola continues to lead the worldwideIP set-top box (STB) market in 1Q08, althoughits closest competitors made major inroads thisquarter, reducing Motorola’s lead- ADB takes the lead in 1Q08 in worldwidehybrid IP/over-the-air STB market share- Cablevision was the first to roll outswitched digital video; it will soon be followedby other MSOs in North America, then those inEurope/Middle East/Africa (EMEA) and AsiaPacific (APAC), who face an uphill battle for tripleplay subscribers- France remains the hotbed of IPTVactivity, with Orange, Free, and neuf all battlingfor IPTV subscribers- Telco IPTV operators in Western Europe,particularly France, Sweden, and Italy, continueto give away their IPTV service to hold on totheir broadband subscribers

Infonetics’ report provides market size,market share, and forecasts for IPTV equipment,including integrated digital headend platforms,video on demand (VOD) and streaming contentservers, IP video encoders, universal edgeQAMs, IPTV middleware and content deliveryplatforms, and IP STBs. The report also tracksIPTV, cable IPTV and cable SDV servicerevenue and subscribers.

Companies tracked include ADB,Alcatel-Lucent, Amino, ARRIS, Celrun, Cisco,Dasan Networks, Ericsson, Huawei, Microsoft,Motorola, Netgem, Nokia Siemens, OptiBase,Pace, Phillips, Sagem, Samsung, ScientificAtlanta, Sumitomo, Tatung, Telsey, Thomson,Tilgin, UTStarcom, Yuxing, and others.

According to In-Stat, PC-TV tuner market toget boost from European and Asian shift toDigital TV, US move to Mobile ATSC M&Hservices

The adoption of digital PC-TV tuners willaccelerate in Europe as digital terrestrial TV(DTT) services continue to expand there. Asia,China, and India will present strong growthopportunities. North America is expected to seea surge during 2009, when analog TV is cut offand new mobile digital broadcast TV (MDTV)services are introduced by major US TVstations. The high-tech market research firm In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com) cautions that theuptake of PC-TV tuners is not guaranteed, asthey face challenges from a wide variety ofoptions, consumers now have to use computersto gather and view a wide range of video content.

“The challenges to PC-TV tuner adoptioninclude easy-to-use Cable, TelcoTV and satelliteTV services that provide high-quality Video-on-Demand, Internet distributed video content,IPTV services and mobile broadband, such as3G, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX,” said Gerry Kaufhold,In-Stat analyst. “While some European cableand satellite operators allow the use of digitalPC-TV tuners with conditional access to receivepremium content, the U.S. market will take sometime to implement CableLab’s tru2waytechnology. Microsoft also needs to improvetheir internal support for multiple tuners in a PC.”

Recent research by In-Stat found thefollowing:

- By 2012, there will be 30.8 million PC-TV tuners sold annually, with a totalretail value of US$1.7 billion.

- Western Europe and Japan lead inthe uptake of digital PC-TV tuners.

- In 2005, 60.1 percent of PC-TV tunersshipped were analog, but the analogtuner market share dropped to 48.3percent in 2006, and then to 39.7percent in 2007.

The research, “Worldwide PC-TVTuners: Driven by Digital Broadcasting”


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(#IN0804070ME), covers the worldwide marketfor PC-TV tuners. It provides unit shipment,revenue, and average selling price forecasts foranalog and digital PC-TV tuners by regionthrough 2012. Regional market drivers andbarriers are analyzed, along with industry trends.For more information on this research or topurchase it online, please visit: http://w w w . i n s t a t . c o m / c a t a l o g /mmcatalogue.asp?id=162 or contact a salesrepresentative: http://www.instat.com/sales.asp.

The price is $3,495 (US).

Facing competition, operators take moreSTB risks, according to ABI Research

Faced with stiff competition in the cablemarket and from telcos vying for TV viewers,traditionally risk-averse cable operators arebecoming increasingly “bipolar,” supporting aroadmap that may require the deployment ofnew STBs with more advanced features andfunctions, while also apparently aiming to drivethe ubiquitous STB to extinction. Meanwhile,STB vendors are offering a variety of newfeatures to entice operators. When it comes toSTBs, operators have traditionally treadedcarefully, and have largely been unwilling to“shop around” much for new technologies.According to ABI Research analyst PaulhwaLee, “Because some operators are facing stiffercompetition, they are now willing to experimenta little more, venturing into offerings such asElectronic Program Guides, wireless support,home networking support for MOCA orHomePlug, and expanded hard drives — all atincreasingly affordable prices.” There is also agrowing trend toward partnerships and

consolidation. For example, STB giant Motorolahas acquired a Chinese STB vendor, DahuaDigital; decoder manufacturer Broadcom haspartnered with Chinese STB vendor Coship; anddecoder manufacturer NXP has acquiredConexant’s STB operations. Some operators,too, are partnering with new STB manufacturers.This is because as the United States marketmatures, subscriber growth slows and evolvestowards STB replacement. STB sales may stillbe driven by one-off developments such as theCableCARD mandate, the digital to analogtransition, and the unification of data and video.But operators know that these transitions areCapEx-intensive. At every opportunity, operatorsare trying to standardize and commoditize STBsby formulating standards and consortia such astru2way and CableLabs, so many STBmanufacturers are looking to fresh markets inAsia, Europe, and Latin America. ABI Researchhas released newly updated Set-top Box MarketForecasts (http://www.abiresearch.com/p r o d u c t s / m a r k e t _ d a t a / S e t -Top_Box_Market_Data). The information coversSTBs of all kinds, including those for IPTV,satellite, cable, and digital terrestrial TV. Itproduct forecasts, shipments, average sellingprice, and market value through 2013. It alsocontains data on CATV and IP gateways,decoders, and subscribers. It forms part of thefirm’s Multi-Channel Video Research Service(http://www.abiresearch.com/products/service/Multi-Channel_Video_Service), which alsoincludes Research Reports, Research Briefs,other Market Data products, Online Databases,ABI Insights ABI Vendor Matrices, and analystinquiry support.

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