Wednesday, July 29, 2009

MoCA Joins Standards Pavilion

The Standards Pavilion at TelcoTV continues to grow, with the Multimedia over Coax Alliance being the latest entry. Established in January 2004, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance, MoCA, is the standard for home entertainment networks over coax. A not-for-profit open standards body, MoCA has more than 60 international members representing the home entertainment network value chain including service providers, OEMs, consumer electronics companies and chip vendors. http://www.mocalliance.org


Tuesday, July 14, 2009

AT&T CTO to Keynote at TelcoTV

John Donovan, Chief Technology Officer at AT&T has just confirmed his keynote for TelcoTV 2009. He oversees the company's global technology direction and innovation road map, including product development, network and engineering operations, AT&T Labs and the security and intellectual property organizations.

Friday, July 10, 2009

ATIS Joins TelcoTV Standards Pavilion

ATIS is the latest organization to join TelcoTV's new Standards Pavilion on the trade show floor. They join Broadband Forum and MPEG-IF. ATIS is committed to providing leadership for, and the rapid development and promotion of, worldwide technical and operations standards for information, entertainment and communications technologies using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. For more info on the TelcoTV Standards Pavilion - go here.

Monday, July 6, 2009

The Booth Crawl is Back! Let's Celebrate

The Booth Crawl returns to TelcoTV in 2009, with Nokia Siemens Network and RGB Networks being the first to sign up as participants.

The Booth Crawl takes place on Tuesday November 10th from 4:30 - 6:30 pm in the TelcoTV Exhibit Hall. It's a great new twist on the traditional cocktail party. Held in the TelcoTV Exhibit Hall, select exhibitors will have drinks (alcoholic and non) and snacks right in their booth. Attendees are given a map, showing exactly which exhibitors are participating, and can navigate the show floor seeking out refreshments and the latest video solutions. We held the first booth crawl at TelcoTV 2008, to much success. Are you an exhibitor who wants, to participate? Sign up here.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

TelcoTV & NECA EXPO Partner Up

Did you know that NECA Expo 2009 will also be located in Orlando, FL? Same City, Same Week as TelcoTV! Actually NECA will be less than 5 miles from TelcoTV.

So to help you be as productive as possible in your time out of the office - we've teamed up with NECA to offer you a great deal. Add on a NECA EXPO One Day Vendor Showcase Pass to any TelcoTV badge for just $50!

The NECA EXPO Vendor Showcase will be open:
Monday November 9, 2009
Tuesday November 10, 2009
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Cocktails provided)
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch provided)

For more info on NECA vist www.NECA.org

Avail-TVN CEO to Keynote

TelcoTV has just announced the first of its Keynote Speakers:

Ramu Potarazu, Chief Executive Officer, Avail-TVN
Ramu serves as CEO of the newly formed Avail-TVN. He brings more than 20 years of telecommunications and general management experience, including extensive involvement in sales and marketing, engineering and operations, business development and strategy formulation in the global telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Avail Media, Ramu was President and Chief Operating Officer of Intelsat, Ltd., a $1.2 billion global company that provides telecommunications products and services to customers in the Media & Entertainment, Network Services, and Government Services sectors. During his tenure at Intelsat from 2002 to 2006, he built a worldwide presence in more than 220 countries by restructuring the company's commercial organizations. In addition, he led Intelsat through several acquisitions and integrations of companies, ranging from $6 billion to $100 million. And, he created a new business line that generated $125 million in revenue in a four-year period. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oklahoma Christian University and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He is a postgraduate Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at George Washington University, and he completed the Stanford Executive Program.

Stay tuned for more Keynote announcements!

Workshop Subject Matter Just Announced

TelcoTV will hold three workshops on Tuesday, November 10th. Workshops are sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Conklin-Intracom.

Alcatel-Lucent has just announced their topic:

Effectively Delivering Triple Play Services while Minimizing Costs
As voice revenues and market share decline, regional communications providers need effective new ways to increase subscriber ARPU — and fend off intensified competition from cable, satellite and Internet video providers. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) represents a unique opportunity for network operators to upgrade their networks and greatly enhance their service delivery capabilities. IP video is a key component for serving communities, and IPTV, in particular, represents essential next-generation services which open up valuable revenue opportunities. This Workshop will highlight those revenue opportunities and discuss a streamlined delivery of triple play services with an end-to-end, tested solution that supports a wide range of IP video capabilities. It will address the unique challenges of operators in low-density markets.

And Conklin-Intracom has announced their's as well:

IPTV Ecosystem Building Workshop
Every successful IPTV deployment shares common characteristics: highly knowledgeable service providers and solution providers bringing together people and technologies to meet and exceed the quality of experience expectations of IPTV subscribers. This fast-paced workshop is packed with real world insight and guidance on topics including (but not limited to) business case creation, new content acquisition, transport and distribution technologies, differentiation through local content development, local advertising monetization, network optimization & troubleshooting. Service providers will walk away with an enhanced, comprehensive view of the current state of the IPTV ecosystem and how best to benefit from the new products and services available in order to increase customer satisfaction, retain subscribers and increase revenues.

Cisco's session topic should be available in the next week or so - I'll keep you posted