Telco TV Almost Around the Corner, says ABI Research.OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- In a speech to the Telco TV 2005 conference in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. yesterday morning, Jeff Weber, Vice President, Product & Strategy at SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Operations, highlighted several factors which he said are making Telco TV a workable proposition today. Among them was efficient use of bandwidth. Thanks to the confluence of a number of maturing technologies, Weber said, bandwidth could now be used efficiently enough to make the Telco TV experience a satisfying one. He particularly cited Windows Media 9, MPEG-4, VDSL See DSL. VDSL - Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line 2, System-on-a-Chip, and Gigabit Ethernet. All these critical technologies are examined in the latest release of ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. Research's Telco TV Quarterly Service, which provides qualitative and quantitative analysis Quantitative Analysis A security analysis that uses financial information derived from company annual reports and income statements to evaluate an investment decision. Notes: of Telco TV infrastructure, Telco TV/IPTV services and revenue, and Telco TV CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment (IP STBs, gateways and other home connecting devices). It also evaluates access technologies and access-network deployments that support operators in their rollouts of Telco TV. The study confirms many of Weber's conclusions, particularly his mention of MPEG-4. According to Michael Arden, ABI Research's principal analyst of broadband and residential entertainment technologies, this latest edition of the service devotes considerable space to MPEG-4, its role in enabling Telco TV, its implications for encoding/transcoding, and - a new and important topic -- chipsets for the set-top-box. When will Telco TV complete its transition from a pilot project technology to the commercial mainstream? There, ABI Research differs somewhat from Weber's estimate. "I think SBC's Jeff Weber is overly bullish," comments Arden. "He suggested that Telco TV is ready to go right now, and I don't think that's necessarily the case. There are still some middleware scaling issues and other technology questions to be resolved, so I don't believe we'll see these services offered in bulk in the next six to nine months. But there's no doubt that it is coming." Founded in 1990 and headquartered 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 , ABI Research maintains global operations supporting annual research programs, intelligence services and market reports in automotive, wireless, semiconductors, broadband, and energy. For information visit www.abiresearch.com, or call +1.516.624.2500. |
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