The importance of interoperability among IPTV vendors—or perhaps the sheer volume of vendors—is taking a step up the priority list this week with an IPTV Pavilion at the Broadband World Forum in Madrid.
The Pavilion, which is a "one room schoolhouse" structure at the event is sponsored by the International Engineering Consortium, and is attempting to showcase how various elements within an IPTV system would interoperate. It’s also serving as a platform for mPhase, which organized the pavilion, to demonstrate its own growth from a propriety system to one that is interoperable with others.
“We’re trying to position ourselves as a systems provider not just software,” said Philip Thompson, executive vice president of product management for mPhase.
Previously the company had been closely aligned with Lucent Technologies. This week in the pavilion, though, it is running demonstrations with Espial, Latens, Ranch Networks and SkyStream.
“I look at this as part of an evolutionary movement from a proprietary environment to an interoperable one,” said Mary Whelan, executive vice president of marketing and communications for mPhase. “This is a whole new transformation for telcos and we need to figure out how to use industry standard interfaces. The world they live in is multi-vendor.”
http://telephonyonline.com/broadband/news/mPhase_IPTV_interop_100505/
The Pavilion, which is a "one room schoolhouse" structure at the event is sponsored by the International Engineering Consortium, and is attempting to showcase how various elements within an IPTV system would interoperate. It’s also serving as a platform for mPhase, which organized the pavilion, to demonstrate its own growth from a propriety system to one that is interoperable with others.
“We’re trying to position ourselves as a systems provider not just software,” said Philip Thompson, executive vice president of product management for mPhase.
Previously the company had been closely aligned with Lucent Technologies. This week in the pavilion, though, it is running demonstrations with Espial, Latens, Ranch Networks and SkyStream.
“I look at this as part of an evolutionary movement from a proprietary environment to an interoperable one,” said Mary Whelan, executive vice president of marketing and communications for mPhase. “This is a whole new transformation for telcos and we need to figure out how to use industry standard interfaces. The world they live in is multi-vendor.”
http://telephonyonline.com/broadband/news/mPhase_IPTV_interop_100505/
