USA: STUDY FINDS VIDEO OVER DSL HEADED FOR SLOW BUT STEADY GROWTH.




            USA: STUDY FINDS VIDEO OVER DSL HEADED FOR SLOW BUT STEADY GROWTH. 

            Communications Today, 11-Jul-2002


            A new report from industry analysts In-Stat/MDR predicts that, in 
            part goaded by
            the recently published FS-VDSL specification, telephone companies 
            are about to 
            begin increasing their presence in the video delivery market. At the 
            same time, 
            however, economic conditions are expected to keep growth in the 
            field relatively
            slow for the next few years.

            The report, "Telco Video Delivery on the Brink," claims there are 
            about 100,000 
            subscribers to telephone company video services, and expects this to 
            grow to 
            about 1 million subs by 2004. In the 2005-2006 timeframe, the firm 
            expects this 
            "leisurely" pace to pick up a bit based largely on expectations of a 
            long-term 
            recovery in capital expenditure budgets. While much of the early 
            development has
            taken place in the Americas, the firm expects Europe to take the 
            lead - which 
            makes sense given the stronger presence of DSL in more densely 
            populated 
            European markets as opposed to the cable stronghold of North 
America.

            With appropriate timing, ECI Telecom [ECIL] unit Inovia Telecoms is 
            demonstrating a digital video over DSL system at a conference 
            devoted to the 
            subject in Barcelona. The expansion to Inovia's randomly capitalized 
            Hi-FOCuS 
            product line is designed to offer video delivery options ranging 
            from 
            interactive and broadcast television to video on demand.

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      Information provider: Peter Woolf
      Publication date: 23/04/2001