[B&C/MCN] Telco-IP Video Update - March 18, 2008 B&CMCN
TELCO-IP Television Update, sponsored by NDS, AccuWeather and BuyerZone



March 18, 2008
Top Story
NEC Targets $500M in IPTV Sales by 2010

NEC said it will launch a "full-scale IPTV business," providing end-to-end video delivery systems for communication carriers around the world, and the Tokyo-based company is predicting the unit will generate sales of around $500 million (50 billion yen) by 2010.

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MARKETING
Customers Take Center Stage In New Verizon Spots

Verizon Communications Inc.'s video and Internet customers will be the stars of its latest TV ads, themed 'This is FiOS. This is big."

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AT&T Runs U.S. Olympic Team On VOD

AT&T, keying off its sponsorship of the U.S. Olympic Team, will give U-verse TV customers access to exclusive video clips of American athletes preparing for the 2008 summer games.

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ADB Takes IPTV to Sea

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), a supplier of digital TV systems and software solutions for interactive television, announced that it has been selected to supply IPTV set-top boxes to SeaMobile, a supplier to the at-sea/remote location communications and entertainment services industry.

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U. of Houston to Put AT&T U-verse in New Dorm

The University of Houston plans to offer AT&T's U-verse TV and Internet services to 700 rooms in a 547,000-square-foot residence hall currently under construction.

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One-Liners

• Britain's Tiscali UK is expanding and upgrading its IPTV service with Harmonic's DiviCom Electra 5400 standard-definition MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) multichannel encoders, as part of its rollout to 10 million homes.

• Sweden's Telenor will supply Ruckus Wireless' Smart Wi-Fi 802.11g systems as part of its IPTV service, offered through subsidiary Bredbandsbolaget.

• Harmonic's DiviCom Ion AVC standard-definition encoder completed conformance testing for the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform.

• Deutsche Telekom selected JDSU's service-assurance test solutions to support delivery of its IPTV service.

• Lithuania's TEO LT AB has selected Widevine Technologies' Cypher content-protection system for its GALA IPTV service.

• Amino Communications, a supplier of IPTV set-top boxes, is opening an office in Shanghai, China, to provide local support for its manufacturing partners.

• AT&T rolled out its suite of interactive TV features, which include customized news and weather information, to U-verse TV customers in Oklahoma City.

• Amino will use Ant Ltd.'s Galio platform for the AmiNET530 HD H.264 personal video recorder set-top.

• SecureMedia announced the integration of Cinea's Running Marks watermarking solution into its Encryptonite ONE System.

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