Telephony's Inside Telecom Live:
Video Services

IPTV is one of the hottest concepts in telecom today, but the broader video opportunity presents myriad competitive and technological questions. Join Telephony Editor-in-Chief Dan O'Shea in a live, interactive discussion with video sector expert Jonathan Hurd, director of Altman Vilandrie and Company, that will address a wide range of video-related issues and questions, including:

• The impact of video services on the telecom access network: What are the bandwidth requirements for IPTV now and in the future?
• What role will technology platforms like FTTx, PON, and HFC play in that future?
• What are some of the emerging options for reducing the cost and complexity of video headends?
• What does the future hold for RF video?
• The standards issue: What industry groups will drive standards for IPTV, and will those standards be regional or global?
• What is the potential market growth for end-user generated contents?
• What kind of QOS and SLAs will need to be supported for end-user generated upstream contents?
• Content acquisition: What options will emerge that could make programming content more readily available to smaller markets?
• What is the stance of the cable MSOs toward migrating their video services to IP?
• As IP video content begins grow, will the MSOs continue the proprietary set-top box model?
• And more…