An interview with Andrew Walding, CellStream, at the WSTA 2009 Annual Convention. Andrew talks about moving from TDM voice to IP voice, and how we’re not really inventing a new wheel, but adapting it. We talk a bit on the flexibility of SIP and his favorite new application and gadget. ViodiTV at WSTA was sponsored by Solarus and Central Cable Contractors.
Posts Tagged ip
Evolving TDM to IP
May 21
Steve Klein of Allied Telesis provides an overview of their product offering in this brief video. He describes their Multi Service Access Platform, which is a carrier-grade IP/Ethernet networking solution that supports copper and fiber infrastructures. Klein explains that the complementary Optical Network Terminal is modular, allowing an operator to add an HPNA home networking solution only as required.
Voice narration isn’t necessary to make the point of this two minute video as it notes the progression of IP in telecom and the progression of Video and TV over the Net. IP displaced ATM in an industry that would have said "no way" ten years ago. And now, Video and Television over the Net have progressed to a point where few are questioning or doubting, but many are jumping on the band wagon to provide products and service.
IPTV took a bit of a hit in December 2008 when SES announced it was backing out. Yet, at that same time, Vudu announced the addition of Web to TV episodes to it’s service. LG announced a box for Netflix movies delivered over the Net to the television, and then announced a TV that didn’t need a box. Roku and VuNow also have a box for video to the TV while XBox, Playstation, and Wi already do Internet video on the TV, and then Ninetendo announced an Internet channel that struck fear in the Japanese TV industry.
Even before these Internet to TV boxes came along, there was writing on the wall with the aggregation of network, studio, and film content. ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Comedy Central, Disney, and many others have been streaming programs over the net for quite some time. It was a logical progression for companies like Hulu, Boxee, and even TV Guide to aggregate.
The missing link for television video on the net, and the aggregation of that content, for watching on the TV, was a box. Today there are many with many more likely to show up in 2009. My conclusion in the video above is that operators need to learn more about these activities by watching, uploading video content and experimenting, learning to create video playlists, and embedding customized players on a website. The tools for learning are free – YouTube, BlipTV, Revver, Metacafe, Facebook, and the many others – so it seems very logical that using these, and observing will help realize how to partner in these ventures.
ViodiTV has been posting video’s for the past 6 years and learned many things by expermenting. We’ve learned what’s good and bad about various services, about generating ad revenue through new avenues, about creating playlists for linear on demand viewing, and customizing players to embed on a website. We’ve learned why CDN’s are important for video, and about many start-ups and stealths at various conference that focus on video over the net.
To use an abstract analogy I’d conclude with the phrase… In 2008 "Wii" got "Fit" on TV; In 2009 TV is getting Fit for Us. I also want to point out that the music in this video is Creative Commons License 
downloaded from ccMixter.org. "Pulsing Piano Bit for Goodby December" by Kaer Trouz.
The Cool Factor
May 13
Doug Wenzlaff of Solarus, a Wisconsin-based Independent Telecom provider, talks about the the "cool factor" at the 2008 IP Possibilities conference in Chicago. The long-term implications of Wenzlaff’s comments are that independent telcos will need to concern themselves with style as much as substance. This is a preview of the type of programming that will be seen as we bring ViodiTV to next week’s WSTA conference in the Dells.
Steve Fritzinger talks about Microsoft, the Independent Telco’s, homeshoring, and working together.
A new look at the 80/20 rule
Apr 10
James Kovaly of Cisco gives a new prospective on the 80/20 rule… the significance of attending NTCA and OPASTCO conferences like IP Possibilities.
ViodiTV at IP Possibilities 2008 is being brought to you by Entone. 
Hybrid IP/RF Set-Top Boxes
Apr 25
New Local Content Workshops Are Forming
This is a brief video interview recorded at NAB2007 with Jeff Vinson of NXP, the semiconductor company that was spun off from Philips. They makes the guts of televisions and IP Set-tops. In this video, they show a set-top that is being used in Germany for streaming video over the Internet, as well as a prototype of another set-top that is a hybrid ATSC/IP set-top. They believe this hybrid set-top could have applicability in the U.S. They also see alternative players, like Flash, being a viable choice for a set-top solution. To see an earlier post about this type of approach, please see this link.
