Company: SNL Kagan
Published: April 06, 2009

From 2006 to 2008, data revenue catapulted from less than 6% of wireless service revenue to almost 22%, enabling carriers to grow total revenue by 20%, despite an increasingly saturated market and waning pricing power. In this report, SNL Kagan’s expert wireless analysts take a close look at the future of mobile data. Read the exclusive study to learn why SNL Kagan anticipates continued double-digit gains for data revenue over the next four years and which services are expected to fuel that growth.

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Published: March 24, 2009

During the last four years, IPTV has evolved from a sideline pay-TV platform to a full-fledged market alternative. This exclusive study from SNL Kagan surveys the current state of IPTV and presents forecasts for the platform’s growth over the next five years in six regions: North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. Read The State of Global IPTV to learn how SNL Kagan’s experts expect IPTV to alter the global multichannel marketplace in the years to come.

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Company: Verimatrix
Published: March 18, 2009

Convergence between broadcasting, broadband and mobile communications is creating new challenges and business opportunities for the whole content delivery value chain. This white paper allows you to understand 1. The current migration opportunities for pay-TV operators; 2. How IP is playing a central role in enabling business model enhancements; 3. Content security issues from multiple perspectives – operator, content owner and regulator and 4. How to marry flexible, layered security to hybrid networks.

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Company: SNL Kagan
Published: March 10, 2009

In the 2008-2009 financial meltdown, many broadcast stocks have been beaten down to little more than option values, but that doesn’t mean all investors are shunning the sector. As companies recapitalize to the lowered leverage ratios acceptable today, there is a chance for opportunistic investors to enter at levels that would have been impossible a year ago. This exclusive study from SNL Kagan delves into today’s valuation benchmarks, and explores the future economics of the business.

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Company: Arbor Networks
Published: Nov 04, 2008

Network service providers (NSPs) that can fulfill customer requirements for high levels of quality and performance are clearly positioned to dominate the triple-play market, which is still in an early, land-grab stage.

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Company: Verimatrix
Published: Nov 04, 2008

Rising consumer demand for access to pay-TV on an “anywhere, anytime” basis is challenging service providers to adopt unified content security strategies that will support the seamless 3-screen experience customers are looking for.

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Author: Glen Davies
Published: Mon, 27 Oct 2008

SIP is already providing interoperability between different codec brands in a multitude of situations. The influence of SIP is certain to grow as broadcasters work with industry stakeholders to further develop SIP functionality in years to come.

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Company: ViaCLIX
Author: Reid Martin
Published: Fri, 3 Oct 2008

ViaCLIX?’s CBIN uses alpha, alphanumeric, or glyphs (labels, symbols, and / or pictures) to connect client systems to specific channels within a channel network that can contain an unlimited amount of channels. Each channel is assignable and can be purposed in a variety of ways.

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Company: Nagravision
Published: September 2008

Hybrid solutions are moving us closer towards truly converged services. What was a mere interesting concept a couple of years ago has now developed into what looks like the de facto leading deployment scheme for digital TV. Each link in the convergence chain will need to
protect assets adequately. Content security needs to evolve in line with the hybrid/converged deployment, and suit arbitrary combinations of different delivery methods. The more converged the services become, due to cross-selling of content, evolution of new business models
and multiple delivery networks and devices, the more experience consistency will become the essential differentiator for successful pay TV service providers.

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Company: Nagravision
Published: September 2008

Over the past few years the value of content being distributed over different delivery networks has greatly increased. Paradoxically, the re-distribution of content over the same networks can be accomplished with ease. This situation has led content owners to enforce security measures to protect their content – called Content Protection Technology (CPT). This paper mainly aims at providing selection criteria for such a CPT and eventually proposes one technology that fulfils these criteria, the DVB standard named ‘Content Protection and Copy Management’ (CPCM).

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