IPTV wares for small North American operators target opex, applications

December 2009 | 17 pages | ID: I94D2B6618FEN
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Abstracts

IPTV vendors are targeting smaller North American telco operators with different products and strategies than those needed for large global deployments by tier-1 incumbents. This report describes vendor offerings and recent announcements for this market from 180Squared, Alcatel-Lucent, Avail-TVN, Cisco, Mariner, and Minerva. This segment is fertile ground for Internet TV, interactivity, and opex reduction.

Contents

Executive summary
In a nutshell
Ovum view
Market overview
Who are the tier-2 to tier-4 operators?
Segment definitions
Tier 1: national incumbents in large, economically developed nations
Tier 2: multi-regional but not national
Tier 3: local service provider for a single region
Tier 4: not even the incumbent local provider
Smaller operator needs differ from tier-1 requirements
VoD later than Internet TV
High definition important to compete against cable and satellite
Other differences
A sample of IPTV offerings for smaller telcos
180Squared: cloud services added to solution-in-a-box
  Solution
  Customer and partner engagement examples
  IPTV role in company strategy
  SWOT
Alcatel-Lucent: new solution targets smaller telcos
  Solution
  Customer and partner engagement examples
  IPTV role in company strategy
  SWOT
Avail-TVN: headend and content offering
  Solution
  Customer and partner engagements
  IPTV role in company strategy
  SWOT
Cisco: ISDP middleware and VQE engine
  Solution
  Customer and partner engagement examples
  IPTV role in company strategy
  SWOT
Mariner: service assurance and application platform
  Solution
  Customer and partner engagements
  IPTV role in company strategy
  SWOT
Minerva Networks: open platform middleware
  Solution
  Customer and partner engagement examples
  IPTV role in company strategy
  SWOT