Deutsche Telekom’s International Carrier Sales & Solution (ICSS) division announced an partnership with Edgecast, a US CDN company. Telecom Ramblings’ Rob Powell wonders why they didn’t acquire Edgecast right away, and here come my 2 cents…
First generation IPTV service offerings and deployments had many different views on IPTV, just like in any technology and service offering hype cycle during the hype phase.
IPTV, though already in its second generation, is still in adolescence mode. While we can come up with a plethora of predictions for the future how TV might or might not look like, the near term meta-topics beyond mobility and hot applications are middleware, security, web2.0, and advertisement.
The definition of IPTV seems to be ambiguous – either because out of common misunderstanding of technology, out of ignorance, or on purpose. We differentiate between first generation of IPTV, second generation of IPTV, and TelcoTV. IPTV is not (yet) VoD, a transport mechanism, web TV or Internet TV, or Mobile TV.
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