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Alcatel-Lucent brings IPTV to the next level

Works with carriers to monetize network investments

by Sean Buckley

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Already working with some of the largest service providers, including Telekom Austria, Alcatel-Lucent continues to make a name for itself in the burgeoning IPTV market. In this Audiocast, Sean Buckley talks with Jim Guillet, Assistant Vice President of Triple Play product marketing for Alcatel/Lucent, about how service providers can leverage their broadband network and IPTV network build outs to generate a sound return on this new investment.

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In this Audiocast, Guillet addresses the following questions:

• IPTV, and really the whole idea of telco TV, has gone through various iterations, but from where you sit what’s your sense of the state of the market overall?

• To help service providers ramp up their IP video offerings, Alcatel/Lucent recently made a number of new enhancements to its Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA), already deployed by large operators such as Telekom Austria AG. What drove Alcatel/Lucent to make these new enhancements?

• One of the elements of TPSDA is its ability to deliver and enforce policy end to end. How has the role and advancement of policy management changed over the years and how will be it be applied in the telco video market?

• In addition to Policy Management, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) continues to come up more and more recently with various DPI-centric vendors beefing up their wares. What’s ALU’s approach to DPI?

• Another concept to emerge in the telecom video age as providers ramp up their service rollouts is the notion of Quality of Experience (QoE). What’s your definition of QoE, and what steps can service providers take to be proactive about ensuring QoE in the home?

• While there’s a lot of talk about IPTV, Over the Top (OTT) video or online video continues to ramp up. How does that play into the overall telco video market?

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