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Should You Offer TV Over Broadband? |
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Written by Kory Mohr
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Monday, 07 March 2005 |
WISPs typically look for various ways to offer value-added services while positively supplementing their revenue, of course. There's recently been much discussion about VoIP initiatives. Why not offer an additional service such as TV over broadband? Granted, the infrastructure may not yet be ready but with the soon-to-come GigE wireless links, anything's possible.
Amended from Light Reading:
"AUSTIN, Texas -- Judging from the workings deep inside SBC Communications Inc. labs, it's clear the service provider is serious about Project Lightspeed, its IPTV service.
Last fall, the company said
it wanted to reach 18 million households with super high-speed data,
video, and voice services in two to three years, rather than the five
years it first predicted. This week, the company upgraded its plans to include 19 million homes -- providing each home with connections as fast as 20 Mbit/s or 39 Mbit/s, depending on the location"
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SBC executive VP Lea Ann Champion gives an overview
of Project Lightspeed at the DSL Forum's meeting this week. |
While SBC's IPTV service isn't ready to roll just yet, all the moving parts are coming together quickly, as revealed by Light Reading's exclusive tour of SBC Labs last week (week of March 1).
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| Inside SBC's Labs, we spy a very early attempt at VOIP. |
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With a nod to Light Reading's non-disclosure agreement, here's a look
at SBC's wall of IPTV encoders, video routers, and receivers. |
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| A technician from Tandberg pulls up some video feeds as we're gang-tackled by security. |
When complete, Project
Lightspeed will still only cover about 50 percent of SBC's territory.
For those areas left out of the Lightspeed range, SBC has mentioned the
rollout of a product called "Home Zone" -- an assembled bundle of
voice, video, and data services. Home Zone subscribers will see some
convergence, too. No, their services won't come down a single wire, but
they will arrive on the same bill.
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