Team Lightbulb announces the full schedule for Telecom2008 at the NAB Show. Telecom2008 will focus on the technologies, issues and benefits of IPTV and broadband video ecosystems and deployments in four tracks: The Business of IPTV, Telecom Technology Papers, IPTV - It's about the Content, and Telecom Crash Course.

"This year's conference reflects a new level of maturity for IPTV in terms of services and deployments," said John Abel, Partner with Team Lightbulb. "For example, we have speakers looking at new advertising models and how the web and IPTV interrelate -- characteristics that differentiate IPTV from traditional broadcast, satellite and cable.

Symmetricom is sponsoring the ATIS IPTV architecture webinar on Thursday, March 27 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. PDT. This informative one-hour webinar will focus on the importance of video quality monitoring in IPTV, specifically Quality of Experience monitoring.

Featured speakers for the webinar are AT&T’s Network Architecture and Planning Principal Member of the Technical Staff Robert Streijl; Triveni Digital’s Chief Technical Officer Dr. Richard Chernock; and Symmetricom’s Quality of Experience Assurance Division Principal Technologist Dr. Stefan Winkler.

TM Forum is hosting a pre-show device-management Summit on June 24 in conjunction with CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase. CONNECTIONS is the largest executive conference and showcase focused on the market developments and growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions. The 12th annual conference will be held June 24-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

The TM Forum Device Management Summit on “Low-Cost Device Deployment and User Support” addresses the growing management requirements generated by intelligent interconnected devices in the home, including mobile handsets, set-top boxes, and gateways. With one trillion devices expected in the next 15-20 years, service providers must solve device-based management issues, leading to reduced support costs, improved customer experience, and potentially add additional service revenues.

With service providers supplying over 70 million households worldwide with residential gateways by 2012, CONNECTIONS: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase, June 24-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, will focus on the new business models in broadband sharing, remote management, and other advanced services afforded by these technological advances.

CONNECTIONS, produced by Parks Associates in partnership with CEA, is the largest executive conference and showcase focused on the market developments and growth factors for advanced digital lifestyle solutions. Conference sessions provide high-level research, knowledge, and analysis to over 1,000 executives from the converging industries developing consumer products and services.

Advanced Digital Broadcast will showcase a complete range of product solutions for telecommunications and IPTV operators at IPTV World Forum 2008, London, 12-14 March.

ADB has established a widely acknowledged reputation as a leading supplier to the IPTV Industry world-wide, supporting a number of high volume services including Fastweb, HanseNet, Telefónica, Telefónica O2 Czech Republic and Telekom Austria. In recognition of this expertise, the IPTV industry has rewarded the company with a number of awards including last year's IPTV World Series Award. ADB's IPTV digital video recorder the 5810TWX has been nominated this year.

Harmonic will present its market-leading broadcast and on-demand video delivery solutions for telco, cable and Internet service providers. With Harmonic’s comprehensive IPTV portfolio — encompassing compression, stream processing, content preparation, on-demand software and advertisement/video servers — operators can generate incremental revenue and provide a more personalized video experience. Harmonic executives will also share their industry expertise as featured speakers during the telco IPTV and IP cable sessions of the conference, and the Company is a finalist for four IPTV World Series awards. Taking place in London from March 12-14, the IPTV World Forum conference and exhibition is Europe’s premier event focused on IP-based video delivery.

Team Lightbulb announce further details of Telecom2008 at the NAB Show. The NAB Show, held in Las Vegas from April 11-17, is the world's largest electronic media show covering filmed entertainment and the development, management and delivery of content across all media.

Telecom2008 builds on the success of Team Lightbulb's telecom conferences at last year's NAB Show. It features executives from leading carriers and vendors in IPTV and broadband video from the U.S. and abroad speaking in four conferences exploring the IPTV ecosystem:

The NAB Show will expand its IPTV offerings with a new conference series and super session that will provide telecommunications and wireless professionals with insight into converging technologies, state-of-the-art concepts and equipment for IPTV and other next generation video business. Telephony and Broadcast Engineering Magazine, in conjunction with NAB, will also feature an IPTV Pavilion showcasing the latest products and services centered on content distribution and delivery. The events will take place April 14-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Internet World announces its speaker line up for 2008, including representatives from some of the biggest brands in the business.

Speakers at this year’s event will include BBC Worldwide’s Head of Mobile Peter Mercier, Managing Director of BBC.com Kym Niblock, Senior Vice President of MySpace.com Travis Katz, Annelies van den Belt, Head of ITV Broadband and Chris Hogg, Director of Marketing for Intel.

Internet World will take place at Earls Court London 29th April – 1st May 2008. This year’s exhibition builds on last year’s award winning event which attracted representatives from some of the biggest names in world business – Procter & Gamble, General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Reuters and eBay.

The organisers of the IPTV World Forum are launching a new conference stream to be co-located at the IPTV World Forum, March, 2008, called IP Cable. The event will feature worldwide cable operators, leading industry consultants and the technology providers who are involved in cable migration plans to IP.

The IP Cable conference www.ip-cable.net is taking place at the London Olympia from the 12th – 13th March 2008.

Over the past few years the number of broadband subscribers in China has increased exponentially. According to the Ministry of Information Industry, there are 122 million users towards the end of 2007. But due to a low penetration rate, there is still plenty room for expansion. While this may come as good news to the nation’s telecom operators, growing the business is not without its challenges. Telecom operators not only need to struggle with having to lower costs but also develop enticing services to attract new subscribers and reduce churn. Another major goal is to devise a business model for such services to make a profit and find ways around the existing barriers.

Pulvermedia announce details regarding the conference, speakers and sponsors for the eleventh annual VON Europe Spring event, set to take place 2-5 June 2008 in Amsterdam. The upcoming event, now branded as VON.x will address the unprecedented changes taking place in the Internet Communications industry.

"VON.x in Amsterdam will discuss how today's diverse networks will soon transition to IP, to create a single, unified infrastructure that produces next-generation communications services, and enables intelligent handheld devices to take over many of the tasks performed today by PCs," said Bob Emmerson, European Editor for VON Magazine, and one of the content creators for VON.x Europe, based in Amsterdam. "VON.x Europe will focus on wireless technologies, and unified communications more than any previous VON event has, and it's sure to be one of the most leading-edge events of the year."

TVover.net supports Hannover Fairs USA, the U.S. subsidiary of CeBIT organizer Deutsche Messe AG, in promoting IPCentral@CeBIT 2008, a special display and forum area at CeBIT 2008, focused on IP applications and products.

TVover.net is pleased to invite their readers to exhibit and attend.

CeBIT 2008 will be held from March 4-9, 2008 in Hannover, Germany.
The show is the largest international Information and Communications Technology event - it features 27 halls, more than 6000 exhibitors from 77 countries, and 480 000 attendees from 100 countries.

HomePNA broadens its HomepPNA 3.1 product availability and telephone company deployments demonstrate how the open standard is maturing in the multimedia home marketplace. With more than 17 HomePNA products on the market, nine large telcos and many smaller telcos have deployed HomePNA to deliver high-speed, triple-play services to subscribers.

Aliant stated that the availability of HomePNA 3.1 products eased the telco’s deployment of IPTV services to customers. “We are pleased that there are now off-the-shelf products available to Aliant that incorporate the HomePNA 3.1 standard to simplify the in-home experience for our end-user customers,” said Gary Lund, chief technical officer for Aliant. Aliant is the leading IPTV service provider in Atlantic Canada and one of the largest regional telcos in North America. “HomePNA allows us to use the existing wires in our customers’ homes to reduce installation times for Aliant TV’s growing customer base without compromising performance.”

Pulvermedia announces the twelfth annual Spring VON.x Conference & Expo will take place March 17-20, at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose. The Industry's largest, longest-running, and most respected Internet communications event now adopts the VON.x brand, which signifies the inclusion of technologies such as IP-voice, IP-video, wireless, presence, instant messaging, social media, and many others that have enhanced and evolved the Internet communications industry.

From a content perspective, VON.x continues to address the leading issues and trends in the industry. The upcoming San Jose event features full tracks dedicated to Wireless; Unified Communications; the Innovator's Forum, including the "Unconference"; Video on the Net; and Open Source Telephony, as part of Digium Asterisk World. Hundreds of sessions featured within these tracks reflect the contributions of the newly established VON Advisory Board, who have helped to bring a fresh and comprehensive perspective to the program. Details on the complete conference program are available at: http://www.springvonx.com/agenda.