Telco IPTV Identity Crisis: When to Be Same As and Different From CATV

The Telco TV Conference continues to be considered the premiere telephone company IPTV event in the United States, but also continues to be representative more for the “independent” US telephone companies and their struggles to gain traction in delivering television and video programming to their traditional franchise territories base of customers, and extension beyond these boundaries should they so choose. This is a critical time for US Independent Telcos as they consider middleware limitations and STB, DRM, and MPEG-4 integration costs that are compounded by scaling constraints and mid-stream vendor and technology change issues. The conference also has meaning for all the vendors that exhibit and participate in sessions there, as they look for traction beyond Tier 1 telco opportunities that are considered to be fairly locked up and exclusive in the way of primary, and few secondary vendor solutions. AT&T and Verizon continue to participate on the periphery, as they are compelled to exhibit leadership in the sector, and may also have interest in some smaller acquisition candidates and unique vendor solutions exhibited there. What may be more interesting outside this event are CATV sector announcements stealing Telco TV’s thunder, and the chatter in certain telco forum bodies and discussion groups dominated by engineering ranks that are tasked with IPTV solution decisions and implementations relative to NGN and IMS.

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