Features
IN-BUILDING - Home owners
The ‘battle for the home' is a key development currently taking place within the telecoms industry, as mobile operators, fixed operators and VoIP providers fight for what was once the sole territory of fixed operators. Although low-cost VoIP
IBC PREVIEW - Surprising the hardened professional
The International Broadcasting Convention - IBC 2008 - will once again take over Amsterdam's RAI convention centre from 11th -16th September this year. Ian Volans takes a look at aspects of particular interest to the communications marketplace, and
FUNCTIONAL SEPARATION - A positive split
With the aim of giving users greater choice and flexibility, a number of European countries are looking to create a more competitive telecoms landscape, along the lines of the UK model. Dominic Smith looks at the best approaches
FOREWORD - Happy birthday Nelson Mandela
Text messages could raise thousands for charities while celebrating the life of a great man
CUSTOMER COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT - A shift of focus
Customer experience will only improve when customers are viewed as individuals, not account numbers says Giovanni Pellegrini
CONDITIONAL ACCESS - Defeating the pirates
The wide variety of technology formats that promise consumers access to premium content any time, any place, anywhere is putting conditional access systems under the spotlight. Lynd Morley takes a look
CASE STUDIES/COMMENT
NBC/Digital Rapids
NBC has selected Digital Rapids to provide media encoding, transcoding and streaming systems for the network's Internet coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing. Digital Rapids' DRC-Stream encoding and streaming solutions will enable NBC Olympics'
CARRIER ETHERNET - Repositioning the Purple Line
When Kireeti Kompella and David Noguer Bau ask the service provider community about the future of transport networks, there is general agreement that the future is in Ethernet. So what are the wider implications of this position?
