Motorola Acquires Vertasent, Enhances Company’s Next-Generation Digital Video Platform September 28, 2006 – Motorola has enhanced its next-generation video network platform with the acquisition of Vertasent, LLC. |
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Echelon Receives Home Automation Award September 27, 2006 - Echelon Corporation has announced that it has received the first annual Net-atHome™ award for its continued commitment to the advancement of the home automation industry. Presented today by Homega Research at the 9th annual Net-atHome event in Cannes, France, the award recognizes contributions to the worldwide connected home markets made by particular companies or people. |
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Motorola Broadens VoIP Cable Modem Offerings With SIP Protocol September 21, 2006 – Motorola has expanded its family of voice-enabled cable modems with the introduction of the SBV5100 series. |
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Early Market Potential for Connected Home Entertainment Applications Exceeds 16 Million Broadband Households September 12, 2006 - U.S. broadband households are a prime market for connected home entertainment, with over 16 million harboring strong interest in these applications, according to Networks in the Home: Connected Consumer Electronics, a new report from Parks Associates. |
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NDS Launches XTend: Software Enabling Consumers to View Their PC Content on the TV September 8, 2006 – NDS, provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, announced at IBC, the launch of XTend, a new solution that enables content stored on the subscriber’s PC to be transferred seamlessly to the STB over the home network and viewed on the TV. |
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Pace Introduces 'Whole Home' High Definition Solution at IBC September 8, 2006 - With the deadline to analogue switch off counting down across Europe and growing demand for high definition (HD) television, Pace Micro Technology, independent developer of digital TV technologies for the global payTV industry, demonstrates how operators can deliver a digital `whole home` HD solution to customers at this year’s IBC. |
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102 Million Femtocell Access Point Users by 2011 August 25, 2006 - In the near future, femtocells—small cellular base stations designed for use in residential or corporate environments—will be adopted by operators with great enthusiasm. The lure is of greater network efficiency, reduced churn, better in-building wireless coverage, and the abilities to shape subscriber data usage patterns and to build platforms upon which fixed-mobile convergence services can be realized. A new study from ABI Research forecasts that by 2011 there will be 102 million users of femtocell products on 32 million access points worldwide. |
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Harmonic Redefines Video Delivery with New Solutions at IBC 2006 August 25, 2006 - At IBC 2006, Harmonic Inc. will introduce a range of new video stream processing, encoding and broadband networking products that dramatically improve picture quality and bandwidth utilization. Harmonic will also showcase an end-to-end on-demand solution that includes the newly acquired Entone video networking software for content ingest, real-time distributed content management and high performance video streaming, integrated with Harmonic's compression and edge solutions. |
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Digital Deck Launches Into Consumer Electronics Channel August 25, 2006 – Digital Deck™, a provider of technology to manage entertainment throughout the connected home, has announced the company’s entry into the consumer electronics channel with immediate availability of the new Digital Deck Home Media Entertainment System in 20 CompUSA® stores across eight regional territories. |
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Jazztel Video-over-DSL Service Leverages the Power of Harmonic’s Video Headend Solutions August 17, 2006 - Harmonic has announced that Jazztel PLC, a telecommunications service provider in Spain, has implemented a comprehensive Harmonic-based digital headend, including the DiviCom® Electra™ 5000 MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoder, for its IP-based Jazztelia TV service. |
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