One Minute Video: What is OTN?

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AT&T Appoints Head for EMEA

AT&T appointed Tom Regent as the new head of its business in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Regent most recently was global marketing vice president for AT&T's global operations. Based in London, Regent will report to John Finnegan, senior vice president of AT&T Global Sales.http://www.att....

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Nokia Siemens Networks and Intel Demo Digital Home Networking

Nokia Siemens Networks and Intel are cooperating on Digital Home Networking for IPTV. Both companies support the use of UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standards for Home Networking.Nokia Siemens Networks' end-to-end IPTV solution uses its field-proven, leading middleware as well as best-of-breed components for encryption/content protection, content server, TV headend and set-top box. PCs based on Intel Viiv Processor Technology are built with Intel's high performance dual-core and quad-core processors,...

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Raza Partners with Newport Media, Softronix, DiBcom for Mobile TV

Raza Microelectronics has added Newport Media and Softronix Corporation to its MIPS-Based eco-system, the RMI Partner Alliance (RPA). This hardware and software combination adds the necessary components, when combined with an RMI Alchemy Au1250, to power mobile devices providing full MobileTV functionality, including DVB-T/H, DMB, and ISDB-T.Newport Media is a fabless semiconductor company that supplies innovative products to the mobile broadcast...

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Pace Unveils WiMAX Bridging 802.16e and 802.11n

Pace Micro Technology demonstrated a home networking solution that combines 802.16 WAN delivery with 802.11n distribution in the home. The demonstration consists of a server unit in the home, which connects wirelessly to an external WiMAX base station using Pace's "Connections Suite software" -- which has been entirely developed at Pace. This server unit then delivers broadband content -- either video or data or both -- to clients around the home, including set-top boxes, mobile phones and PCs, using WiFi.Pace is teaming up with Metalink and Runcom...

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Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung Demo Mobile TV in S-Band

Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung Electronics are demonstrating live broadcast mobile TV in S-Band using a Samsung SGH-P930 handset. Users are able to interact with the content of all the 3G/unicast and broadcast mobile TV channels available on the handset. This enables the provisioning of new interactive services offered as a complement to linear mobile TV, such as voting, content downloading or mobile commerce for 3G and broadcast channels. The demonstration is enabled by the Streamezzo Rich Media engine, ported on the Samsung specific Operating Systems...

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Broadcom Announces Next Gen STB Chip

Broadcom announced its next gen system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution for cable, satellite and IP set-top boxes (STBs). The new SoC builds on Broadcom's portfolio of HD video compression solutions by utilizing 65 nanometer process technology to significantly reduce bill of materials (BOM) costs and enable higher levels of integration and system performance versus currently available solutions.The new BCM7405 digital video/audio chip supports the latest in interactive features, a range of video compression standards (i.e. VC-1, WMV9, H.263-H.264, MPEG-4,...

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Motorola Reaches Milestone: 2 Million IP STBs

Motorola has shipped its two millionth IP set-top box. The milestone was reached just five months after the shipment of its one millionth IP set-top box. The two millionth set-top -- a VIP1510 -- was shipped as part of the provision of 150,000 units to TeliaSonera."The television market is fundamentally changing as consumers demand more choice, more control and more interactivity in the way they access TV," said Doug Means, corporate vice president, Motorola Home & Network Mobility. http://www.motorola....

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Broadcom Adds Bluetooth to STBs

Broadcom unveiled a new platform that combines its Bluetooth wireless solutions with its digital cable and satellite television set-top box (STB) technologies. The goal is to expand traditional STB functionality and make these systems compatible with the vast and growing universe of Bluetooth remote control, audio and handset devices.Potential benefits of adding Bluetooth to STBs include:Enables a cellular network to be used for ordering or recovering orders for pay per view or other services when a land line is not present or not conveniently...

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