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The New Digital Television Means Boom Times for Telecom Equipment Manufacturers, Says New Report
PR Newswire - July 06, 1998 16:30
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Television (DTV) will be a major driver for fiber-rich local network architectures and that will boost the bottom line of the leading telecom equipment vendors. So says THE NEW TELEVISION 2: DIGITAL TELEVISION, HDTV AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL VIDEO NETWORKS, a new report from Communications Industry Researchers, Inc., (CIR) a market research and consulting firm based here.
According to the new CIR report, high-definition television (HDTV) is still very much a speculative technology, but the success of standard definition digital television is assured, because the transition from analog to digital television (SDTV) will be mandated in many countries, led by the United States. While much attention has been given to the fact that this will mean an entirely new generation of televisions and settop boxes, CIR believes DTV will also require a complete refurbishing of the cable television industry's infrastructure with hybrid fiber coax (HFC) networks. THE NEW TELEVISION 2: DIGITAL TELEVISION, HDTV AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL VIDEO NETWORKS also predicts that the advent of DTV will spur the telephone companies to try their hand once more at becoming television distribution businesses. And this will mean that the telcos will speed up their deployment of digital access technologies, such as ADSL and fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC). As a result, equipment vendors specializing in such areas may experience a "boom market" in the next five years, says the new CIR report.
Fiber, Fiber Everywhere?
"DTV brings television into the mainstream of electronic communications," says Lawrence Gasman, president of CIR. "Because television has always been analog, it has had to be carried on separate specialized networks. Now with DTV, it is just more bits on the information highway."
But the THE NEW TELEVISION 2 report notes that with television becoming part of the digital mainstream, the fiberization of access networks can be expected to grow rapidly and that this is, in fact, already happening. The cable companies' strong commitment to deploying HFC networks is, of course, well known. Less well known is the degree to which even xDSL technologies are dependent on fiber. In some cases, ADSL has been deployed from a remote fiber hub. And in its most evolved form, xDSL will take the form of VDSL, with short copper drops from small fiber hubs, making VDSL the first standardized FTTC architecture.
THE NEW TELEVISION 2: DIGITAL TELEVISION, HDTV AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL VIDEO NETWORKS discusses in depth how xDSL, HFC, FTTC and other related technologies are being adapted to meet the needs of high quality video transmission for the coming DTV era. However, the impact that DTV will make on the information infrastructure is not the only topic covered in depth in the report. The report also contains discussions of how the major industrialized nations are making their transformation to DTV and HDTV; detailed profiles of the DTV/HDTV strategies of the leading cable companies, satellite companies, telephone companies, terrestrial broadcasters and other service providers, as well as of those vendors who make equipment for these service providers; and ten-year forecasts of global DTV/HDTV equipment sales, broken down by product type and service provider type. Equipment forecasts cover both settops and other customer premises equipment, as well as the network equipment used by the service providers themselves.
The Table of Contents and a brief Executive Summary for THE NEW TELEVISION 2: DIGITAL TELEVISION, HDTV AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL VIDEO NETWORKS is available on the CIR Web site, www.cir-inc.com. Further information on this study can be obtained from Robert Nolan at 617-923-7611 or rob@cir-inc.com. Members of the press can obtain a full executive summary from Mr. Nolan. The report is priced at $4,000.00. It is also available in Microsoft Word and PDF formats at an additional charge.
Communications Industry Researchers, Inc., has been in business since 1979. The company publishes market studies and newsletters, and carries out demanding custom market research assignments on the commercial aspects of new communications technologies.
SOURCE Communications Industry Researchers, Inc.
/CONTACT: Lawrence Gasman of Communications Industry Researchers,
804-984-0245, ext. 11/
/Web site: cir-inc.com
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