Oregan™ LAUNCHES TR-69 and tr-135 DEVICE MANAGEMENT solution for network operators
July 6
Oregan Networks, the leading developer of Internet TV technologies, has unveiled its new software module that enables monitoring and management of Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), and is based on the widely adopted guidelines stipulated by the Broadband Forum, namely TR-111,TR-69, and TR-135.
Oregan’s device management solution allows deploying operators to perform bidirectional monitoring and diagnostics of vital network and video quality of service (QoS) parameters, such as connectivity, bandwidth, packet sequencing and video decoder performance. In addition, the system features an advanced end-to-end remote upgrade management facility, with the ability to selectively target specific groups of devices. The upgrades can be modularised, in order to only update selected components of the STB software stack. Such modular approach provides an effective mechanism of minimising the network load and upgrade time.
The new device management module is closely woven into the architecture of Oregan Media Browser - Oregan’s suite of core media client technologies for Set Top Boxes, incorporating HTML based User Interface, Over The Top media streaming client, DLNA home networking stack and a comprehensive list of supported Digital Rights Managements (DRM) and Conditional Access System (CAS) technologies.
The new module has been verified with world’s leading TR-69 Advance Configuration Server solution from Alcatel Lucent, and is now being deployed by multiple telecom operators on an international basis.
Mark G Perry, Oregan’s CEO said, “We are pleased to unveil a new software module that allows network operators to gain greater levels of control over the customer experience in a highly competitive broadband services market. Recognition of an increasing need for Oregan’s telco customers to differentiate on the merits of consistent quality and speed of issue resolution, tightly linked to the content offering, has been the guiding principle in extending the architecture of Oregan Media Browser”.
Arun Seth appointed as Chairman of Alcatel-Lucent India
July 6
Alcatel-Lucent India announced the appointment of veteran telecom leader Arun Seth as Chairman of Alcatel-Lucent India. In this role, Arun will work closely with Rajeev Singh-Molares, President-APAC on overall APAC and India strategy. He will also advise Munish Seth, President and Managing Director, Alcatel-Lucent India to steward the India region to consistent value creation over short, medium and long term.
Arun Seth will continue in his current role as the Non-Executive Chairman of BT India, with whom he has been associated since 1995, when he set up BT’s first India office. Before BT, Arun held several senior leadership roles at the UB Group and HCL.
Apart from his corporate roles, Arun holds advisory positions across a number of distinguished organizations such as, The Executive Committee of NASSCOM, Member of Advisory Board at TERI, Board of Governor’s for Helpage India, among others. Arun is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta.
Tata Teleservices Limited enters the US$2.8 billion location based Services Market
July 5
With Tata Teleservice Limited’s new Workforce tracking services, companies will now be able to track on a real time basis the location of their employees who are provided with pickup or drop facility during the graveyard shifts as well as will get updates on route deviation or over speeding of the vehicle if any.
This is one among the numerous Location Based Services (LBS) launched by Teleservices Limited (TTL), the country’s fastest-growing dual-technology telecom service provider.
Tata Teleservices Limited will offer enterprise customers a host of applications leveraging its LBS Platform. These applications will broadly include;
Vehicle tracking Services: Fleet Management, Taxi Management
Asset Tracking Services: Cargo management, Consignment tracking, ATM finder
Workforce Management Solutions: Employee safety, Sales Force Automation, Service Ticket Allocation
Tata Teleservices Limited’s Location Based Services are powered by multiple technologies which ensure a rich user experience especially for the Enterprise Customer Segment.
In addition to the traditional GPS based navigation / tracking technology, Tata Teleservices Limited also offers location based services powered by Assisted GPS (A-GPS) and Mobile Network Based Location Technology to deliver seamless and accurate tracking services.
The A-GPS service, which is powered by Qualcomm, will use the most advanced positioning methodology to provide customers the flexibility of tracking assets inside buildings and structures as well. With the launch of A-GPS, Tata Teleservices Limited becomes the first telecom service provider to offer such an advanced tracking services in the Indian market. The Mobile Network Based Location Technology enables Workforce Management services through mobile phone devices thereby opening up a completely new market segment.
According to Mr. Sukanto Aich, President – Tata Teleservices Enterprise Business, “These solutions will be across various industry segments and will include applications such as vehicle and fleet tracking, consignment and cargo tracking, fuel consumption monitoring, workforce tracking including employee security solutions, navigation assistance among others. We are now reaching a state wherein Insurance companies can now charge insurance premiums based on how consumers drive their vehicles.”
Customers will be provided with a secure web portal / GUI access to track and generate relevant reports related to the movement of the vehicles or consignments. The reports and alerts will be integrated with SMS or custom mobile applications which will be developed for the customers based on their specific requirements. TTL proposes to leverage LBS offerings through its capability to develop, operate & maintain end to end service to its valued enterprise customers.
Alcatel-Lucent opens the door to a faster, smarter, and greener Internet
June 28
Alcatel-Lucent has unlocked the potential for radical new Internet applications and services with a technology hailed as the key to greater capacity, faster connections and reduced congestion on the web.
Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a next-generation chip that will dramatically enhance the infrastructure needed to access rich new online services, from broadcast-quality high-definition video conferencing to applications in the business and professional world.
The new ‘FP3’ chip will eliminate the bottlenecks preventing such services from taking off today, widening the Internet’s digital highways while enabling dramatically higher data speeds and improving traffic flow. At the same time, the chip will lower the energy consumption of networks, requiring up to 50 percent less power than equivalent chips in use today.
Major telecom operators, including BT, NTT and Verizon today welcomed Alcatel-Lucent’s announcement and its potential to enable faster, smarter and greener networks and applications.
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MNP requests reached 24% in May
July 7
According to Trai data, Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests jumped nearly 24% in May 2011 to 105.70 lakh subscribers, from 85.41 lakh in April.
India’s teledensity reaches 73.11 at the end of May, 2011 with a subscriber base of 874.68 million. However, urban subscriber has marginally declined to 66.38% from 66.56% where as share of rural subscribers has slightly increased from 33.44% to 33.62% in May.
According to May VLR data, the number of active mobile users were only 588.13 million — as against the total subscriber base of 840.28 million.
Total Wireless subscriber base increased to 840.28 Million, registering a growth of 1.61%, whereas Wireline subscriber base declined from 34.55 million in April to 34.40 million at the end of May 2011.
On the other hand, Broadband subscriber base has increased reached 12.12 million, with a growth of 0.92 %.
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SGO Mistika sponsors London's Soho Fun Run again this year for Vision Charity
July 1
SGO, leading European developer of high-end post production system, Mistika, will be a bronze sponsor of Vision Charity’s Soho Fun Run again this year. The event takes place on 7th July in the heart of London’s post production community, where three-legged teams follow a prescribed route around London's Soho area. The race ends at Soho Square for a finishing celebration party afterwards. Vision Charity works for positive causes such as changing the lives of blind, visually impaired and dyslexic children.
Director of SGO Global Sales & Operations, Geoff Mills says: “SGO is proud to be associated with Vision Charity's Soho Fun Run again this year, in order to support a great organisation which effortlessly works hard at raising funds for worthy causes. The SGO team also regards this event as an opportunity to be more involved in helping the charity where possible, and playing an active role in funding its beneficial work.”
The race commences at 6pm, where runners leave from Soho Square's North exit at Soho Street, staggered in 5-minute intervals, and return through the West entrance from Carlisle Street by 7.15pm, where they will receive a medal. Party guests arrive from 7pm with party games in the square, music and refreshments. Runner’s tickets for a team consisting of two people are priced at £60, party tickets are £20 per person and drink tokens start at a £10 donation fee.
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Cinegy partners with AQB Argentina to support Latin America
June 29
Cinegy and AQB Argentina are pleased to announce their co-operation, which will bring the Cinegy range of products to Latin America. AQB has over 15 years experience in the IT market, and is a leading storage and backup solutions information company, focusing on administration, storing and managing digital content. As a pioneer in deploying tapeless facilities and media asset management, AQB is well-placed to offer and support Cinegy Workflow tools in Latin America, especially in Argentina, Chile and Peru, and is the most experienced company delivering management solutions for broadcasting in Argentina.
The fit between AQB and Cinegy is clear. “ We chose Cinegy because Cinegy offers a modular and scalable product, ideal for our market and especially for our initiative in our region”, explains Claudio Stasi, Country Manager for Argentina. Continuous technological refreshing and the inclusion of new products to our portfolio allows us to be prepared to deliver the best choice in the management of digital content, scalable hardware, software and services, for which we have the know-how and tools to address the various stages, in order to implement appropriate solutions to reach the needs of enterprises.”
“Being able to offer commodity-based solutions, that optimizes current workflows, and develop new methodologies that combine hardware, software and services, as well as implement and support these solutions is key in offering competitive and cost-effective solutions to our customers”, states Daniella Weigner, Managing Director of Cinegy. “We are very pleased to be working with AQB to help deliver that in Latin America.”
AQB will be selling and supporting Cinegy’s workflow suite of products which include, Ingest, Archive, Editing, On-Air Graphics and content management.
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Tata DOCOMO launches ‘Endless Music’ Service
June 30
In step with efforts to bolster its VAS portfolio, Tata DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices today launched another innovative service -- Endless Music, a complete bank of music with various categories and sub categories.
Under this service, customers can enjoy and listen to endless music for the entire day and can also download ringtones of their favorite songs by paying a subscription charge of Rs 2/- per day with no extra/hidden cost attached to it. What’s more! With an additional cost of Rs 1/- per day customers will also get the benefit of downloading unlimited Call Me Tunes (CMTs). This service is available for all the Tata DOCOMO post-paid and pre-paid customers across all the circles.
Endless Music service offers a reservoir of songs that can be accessed anytime, anywhere. This service enables customers to listen as many musical tracks as they wish on to their mobile phone.
To avail this service, customers have to dial IVR Short Code 59090 (Toll Free). The service is auto renewable on daily basis.
Vdopia launches .VDO: revolutionary format for Mobile Video Advertising
June 29
Vdopia Inc., the world’s largest mobile video advertising company, announced .VDO: a new file format that – for the first time ever – enables advertisers and publishers to seamlessly run video-enabled ads on the mobile web without Flash or plug-ins.
This patent-pending format powers Vdopia’s Mobile Video Advertising solution, which allows leading brands to auto-play video on mobile web pages, adjacent to content, on virtually any smartphone – without disrupting the user’s web-browsing experience. Currently, .VDO Mobile Video Ads run across iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry (OS5/OS6) devices. Windows Phone 7 and Symbian are expected to be officially certified in Q3 2011.
Prior to the .VDO format, brand marketing efforts across iOS, Android and Blackberry were complex and cost-prohibitive to enable. Advertisers had to choose between a richer experience on a single platform (often limited to running inside apps) or static banner ads for broadest reach.
With the .VDO format, it is now possible to auto-play video inside mobile web browsers across all of these platforms with a single implementation, enabling marketers to leverage their existing TV and digital video assets to create a true, broad-reach integrated campaign. During its beta period, Vdopia’s .VDO allowed partners such as Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Microsoft, Samsung, Bausch & Lomb, Lufthansa, Nokia, Vodafone and Disney to do just that in key global markets.
For publishers, the .VDO format upgrades mobile advertising inventory to multimedia capability without any additional investment. Publishers simply install Vdopia’s HTML5 tags, saving time and money. Among those already using the format to power parts of their ad inventory are Meredith, CondéNast, The Onion, Perez Hilton, Buzz Media and Kargo (the exclusive mobile publisher for Rolling Stone, Spin, Us Weekly and Shape, among others) in North America and NDTV, Converse and Newshunt in Asia.
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