Digital TV News: Broadband Forum

The Americas Show Strong Broadband Growth and Widespread IPTV Adoption
Sep 8, 2009 – The Broadband Forum has announced the latest broadband and IPTV statistics, which show a strong performance in the Americas, both in broadband growth at 18 per cent and in IPTV adoption, where subscriptions grew by 86% over the last twelve months.
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Global IPTV market up to nearly 24 million
Jun 16, 2009 – The Broadband Forum has announced the latest broadband and IPTV statistics. Its report shows that broadband grew by 16.6 million lines globally in the last quarter alone, while IPTV continues to expand strongly.
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IPTV Growth Doubles in North America in 2008
Mar 25, 2009 – The Broadband Forum has announced the latest IPTV and broadband statistics, showing that the North American IPTV market has more than doubled in size in 2008 -- with growth of 113 percent despite the global economic downturn.
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IPTV Over GPON and Bonded DSL Key Components of BroadbandSuite 3.0
Nov 11, 2008 – The Broadband Forum has unveiled BroadbandSuite 3.0 which provides specifications for triple-play delivered via GPON and bonded DSL over a QoS-enabled Ethernet architecture, and remote management beyond the gateway to address video and storage devices.
News categories: Broadband Forum, Broadband, Fibre, Gateway, IPTV, Set Top Box

Infineon Announces World's First DSL CPE Solution Supporting Concurrent Erasure Decoding and Retransmission for High Quality IPTV
Jul 15, 2008 – Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX) has announced enhancements to its portfolio of ADSL2+ and VDSL2 solutions for customer premise equipment (CPE) that optimize support for such applications as IPTV.
News categories: Infineon, KTL Laboratories, BBWF, Broadband, CPE, IPTV, Semiconductor, Software

IPTV Deployments Double For The Second Year Running As Broadband Continues To Achieve Strong Growth
Jul 15, 2008 – The Broadband Forum has announced the latest Broadband and IPTV statistics. The report shows that IPTV subscribers have more than doubled for the second year running with an increase of 53.14 percent in the 12 months to 31 March 2008.
News categories: Broadband Forum, Point Topic, BBWF, Broadband, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Fibre, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

ITU announces first global set of standards for IPTV
Dec 18, 2007 – The standards were built with technical contributions from leading service providers and manufacturers from the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and cement ITU's role as the global leader in IPTV standards development.
News categories: International Telecommunication Union, Digital TV, IPTV

DSL Forum Launches Broadbandsuite™ Release 2.0
Oct 24, 2007 – The DSL Forum has unveiled a major new phase of work at this year's Telco TV in Atlanta. The BroadbandSuite Release Plan - an industry toolkit for broadband advancement - represents a significant change in how the Forum issues its specifications.
News categories: DSL Forum, Broadband, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV

IPTV Deployments More Than Double In a Year as Broadband Continues to Achieve Strong Growth
Oct 8, 2007 – The DSL Forum today announced new broadband and IPTV statistics at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin. The statistics, prepared for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, show that the number of people using IPTV services increased by 179 per cent in the 12 months to 30 June 2007.
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