Artel Video Systems' Dave Pecorella to Speak At the Kagan Video-on-Demand Summit; Topic to Focus On Digital Television Video-on-Demand Applications and Business Models.Business/Technology Editors MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001 Video on demand (VoD) is shaping up as one of the most exciting and innovative new revenue streams in the cable industry. David Pecorella, Artel's Director of Product Marketing will be speaking along with key players in the cable TV industry at the Kagan VoD Summit in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Tuesday and Wednesday, February 27-28. Artel Artel (Russian: арте́ль) is a general term for various cooperative associations in Russia, historical and modern. is a proponent of VoD applications and has designed its Cross Stream(TM) product line, powered by VideoStorm(TM) technology, to enable cable TV and telecommunications service providers to transport VoD content over packet-based networks. "We are seeing an acceleration in activity for VoD and content applications with major cable TV providers," commented Dave Pecorella. "As subscription-based VoD services are now in testing and early deployment; I see a few hurdles that need to be overcome to bring VoD to the consumer. Creating cost effective, standards based and interoperable systems that are scalable to meet growth in demand is the current challenge for VoD providers." The compelling potential of VoD services promises to be a boon for the cable TV industry by setting the stage for bi-directional interactive services to grow beyond the current uni-directional broadcast model. This leap into VoD should propel cable TV beyond satellite TV operators who are encumbered Encumbered A property owned by one party on which a second party reserves the right to make a valid claim, e.g., a bank's holding of a home mortgage encumbers property. with one way broadcast offerings. Artel's VideoStorm(TM) technology for Video-on-Demand applications VideoStorm technology enables cable television and telecommunications network service providers to build networks that transport digital TV and VoD services over their existing broadband infrastructures with the same quality that up to now only satellite TV providers could manage. This MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). video switching engine is designed as a layer 7 broadband application switch architecture, handling the routing, switching, and transport of multi-megabit MPEG video services in real-time while managing video specific traffic types over packet-based networks. VideoStorm is network agnostic, designed to arbitrate large volumes of real-time VoD traffic between networks of varying technologies. VideoStorm can seamlessly integrate with asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. packet/cell based data networks like asynchronous transfer mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM), Internet Protocol (IP) and synchronous optical transport networks like SONET and SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy . This new technology is also capable of interfacing to digital video broadcast (DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. ) devices such as statistical multiplexers, MPEG encoders/decoders, VoD servers, satellite transceivers, transraters and QAM (1) (Quality Assessment Measurement) A system used to measure and analyze voice transmission. (2) (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) A modulation technique that employs both phase modulation (PM) and amplitude modulation (AM). modulators. Information on The Kagan Video-On-Demand Summit can be found online at www.kagan.com. About Artel Video Systems Artel provides video networking systems to cable TV and telecommunications service providers who need to satisfy the consumer's ever growing appetite for broadband digital entertainment. Artel's products are transforming the world's networking infrastructures by enabling the transmission of broadcast and interactive TV over standards based multi-service networks. Artel is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA, with sales and service centers worldwide. Further information about the company is available on the World Wide Web at www.artel.tv. |
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