| By samc on General News With telephone companies moving into a "closed garden" with DSL and satellite providers ubiquitous, you might think the future for independent ISPs is grim. But you'd be wrong, says Jim Olson, president and CEO, of SkyStream. Red Herring explains; "With more customers than Microsoft, SkyStream may be the least known and most profitable of IPTV's new breed". "In just over 18 months of entering the IPTV market, we've gone from zero to 35 U.S. telco customer wins for our video headend products, Mediaplex and experienced strong growth in our worldwide IPTV, cable and satellite business", says Olson.  SkyStream provides IP video delivery platforms that enable ISPs to offer IPTV and MPEG-4 Video Services. SkyStream claims their products can lower costs by half and work over any broadband network and has 20 MPEG-4 AVC customers. IPTVComplete says they have a turnkey, end-to-end video solution that provides a fast, cost-effective way for telephone companies, municipalities, real estate developers and other broadband providers to launch and deliver high quality, IPTV video services. Customers pay a flat monthly fee, plus a per-subscriber fee. The price covers infrastructure, including a headend, installation, ongoing management, and content-200-plus TV channels, and video on demand and pay-per-view programs, over any broadband last-mile network with controllable quality of service. Eagle Broadband and GlobeCast, a satellite services subsidiary of France Telecom, says they can bring it to market in less than 60 days. At the Tour de France this year, GlobeCast deployed nine mobile satellite and microwave stations at each stage to bring up to 22 simultaneous video signals to a reception station at the finish line. From there it went to international outlets. Eagle and GlobeCast have now established two "super headends" - one in Miami, one in Los Angeles - where they aggregate content from a variety of sources, encode and encrypt it, and transmit it, using GlobeCast satellite links, to the remote headends they install at the customer's POPs. The content offered with IPTVComplete includes all the standard network and studio content that satellite and cable TV providers deliver today, plus almost 100 channels of ethnic content from all over the world. In-Stat says that 50 to 75 independent telcos in the U.S. are already offering IPTV services, and that 70 percent of the rest say they will be offering pay TV services within 12 to 24 months. SBC is doing it with Lightspeed WiMax may not be ideal last mile solution since the shared bandwidth is limited to 25Mbps per sector. But over the air DVB-H networks (at 700 Mhz and 1.7 GHz) can multicast to millions simultaneously. That could add another dimension - mobility - to the voice and video package. IP-TV - it's ready to go. Plug and Play. IP-TV News has the latest hardware, software, and services. When a $25 million dollar cable/telephone/fiber distribution system gets destroyed in a storm, who you gonna call? European incumbent carrier Telenor plans to migrate to an all IP network in 2010 as does British Telecom, which plans to turn off its PSTN in the same year (see BT Unveils 21CN Suppliers). Telenor has named Juniper Networks as its sole provider of core and edge IP routers. IBC 2005, from 8-12 September 2005, is the big international broadcasting conference. Many more IPTV and MPEG-4 announcements are expected this week. | 
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