Peer-to-peer applications are more opportunity than threat, and both broadband providers and content owners are better off learning to cash in on P2P than fight it

IPTV operators make content more appealing by adding interactive features

Fixed-line operators aggressively push FTTB and FTTH networks, with plans to deploy six million lines by yearend

Ethernet switch could help telcos collapse wireline and wireless metro networks onto a single IP network

Before femtocells can live up to the hype, operators have to not only make sure customers get a good experience, but figure out just who those customers are

NSN to deploy turnkey solution in Kaohsiung

Erasure decoding and gamma layer retransmission for CPE and DSLAMs can make ADSL robust enough for IPTV, says Infineon

ECI Telecom, Alvarion and Ceragon join forces on nationwide deployment in Taiwan

ECI Telecom CMO Laura Howard explains how its high-touch model with customers expands its role beyond being just an equipment provider

IEC executive VP Roger Plummer says carriers are focused on converting their network investments into tangible apps and services for consumers

Hong Kong's biggest telco admits it is worried about growth constraints in the small market.

"It's a valid concern," PCCW group managing director Alex Arena told BBWF Asia in a keynote address Tuesday.

With so much of the industry concentrated on figuring out how to survive in saturated telecoms markets, Oracle Communications senior VP and GM Bhaskar Gorti said in his keynote at the Broadband World Forum Asia yesterday it can get quite depressing sometimes. "But now broadband is everywhere for both personal and professional use. It's a matter of lifestyle and it's across generations and across cultures."

With just over three weeks before the opening ceremonies of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Chinese telecoms players say they are all set to deliver the most bandwidth-hungry Olympics yet.

During the first panel session of the IEC's Broadband World Forum Asia, official Olympics telecoms partner China Netcom offered a quick glimpse of the telecom infrastructure it has put in place to support the Olympics.

Wimax proponents made their case for future survival Tuesday at the Broadband World Forum Asia, arguing that there's plenty of room for one more wireless broadband technology - especially one without the legacy baggage of LTE.

According to a panel of Wimax players, Wimax has the support and the momentum to flourish, as well as the technological chops to serve the growing demand for high-speed data.

Despite its slow start, TD-SCDMA won't be left out of the 4G sweepstakes as it helps fill in the TDD gap for cellcos in the next couple of years, say Chinese proponents of the technology.

TD-SCDMA, China's homegrown 3G technology, has been slow to develop and is currently deployed on a trial basis only in ten cities primarily across China's eastern seaboard.

The end-user, not content, is king as content doesn't necessarily drive revenue - convenience and ease-of-use are key to a good experience and enticing the customer to pay.

IPTV subscribers have more than doubled for the second year running, hitting 15.4 million at the end of March. According a report release today by the Broadband Forum and Point Topic, Asia lead the growth with a 132% increase, with subs expanding to 2.6 million while Europe followed with a 117% growth rate and the largest IPTV user base – 8.42 million.

Asia-Pacific's broadband subscriber base is expected to reach 171 million by the end of 2008, representing a year-on-year growth of 31.5%, a report from Frost & Sullivan said.

The surge in demand for broadband is driven by the growing popularity of video-on-demand, multi-player online games, video content sharing and social networking services such as YouTube and Facebook, as well as the aggressive push by operators to offer innovative bundled triple- and quadruple-play services.

ECI Telecom said it will showcase the world's first high-bandwidth gigabit passive optical network (GPON) optical line termination (OLT) with a built-in network processor at the Broadband World Forum Asia Conference in Hong Kong.

The firm said the next-generation GPON OLT solution is the only one to offer a built-in network processor in a GPON line card, based on 800 Gbps of switching capacity and offers two new platforms, F152 and F61.

David Sharpley, VP for product marketing at Oracle Communications, give Telecom Asia and a preview of its new platform it will introduce this week that allows service providers to enhance performance of app and partner platforms and accelerate time-to-market for new services.

Pacnet's CTO Wilfred Kwan talks about the trend increased collaboration and partnerships, which is the topic of his presentation on July 16