CONNECTIONS™ Industry Insights

Cornel Ciocirlan, CTO EMEA at ARRIS, answered the following industry questions prior to the 2015 CONNECTIONS Europe event, which took place 10-11 November in Amsterdam:

What challenges does Europe face with rolling out new smart home & connected entertainment services?

• There is a tremendous amount of innovation going on but the IoT industry is still fragmented from the point of view of protocols, physical radios used (and frequencies as well) – which does not help co ...read more

Simon Trudelle, Senior Product Marketing Manager at NAGRA, answered the following industry questions prior to the 2015 CONNECTIONS Europe event, which tool place place 10-11 November in Amsterdam:

What challenges does Europe face with rolling out new smart home & connected entertainment services?

For the European Pay-TV industry, the next key challenge is for service providers to go beyond exclusive content distribution and better market the value of the advanced service ...read more

Rafi Zauer, Head of Marketing at Essence, answered the following industry questions for the 2015 CONNECTIONS Europe event, which took place 10-11 November 2015 in Amsterdam:

What challenges does Europe face with rolling out new smart home and connected entertainment services?

Service providers and operators face a few key challenges requiring detailed action plans:

• Providing services and products with enough value to draw in consumers, At Essence, we conducted an ...read more

Shane Dyer, Founder of Arrayent, answers the following industry questions prior to the 2015 CONNECTIONS Europe event taking place 10-11 November in Amsterdam:

What challenges does Europe face with rolling out new smart home & connected entertainment services?

We are talking to more and more product manufacturers who are struggling to deal with European data sovereignty issues, especially considering the recent European "safe harbor" ruling. These companies have very legi ...read more

Mark Walters, VP of Strategic Development at ZigBee Alliance, answers the following industry questions prior to the 2015 CONNECTIONS Europe event taking place 10-11 November in Amsterdam:

What challenges does Europe face with rolling out new smart home & connected entertainment services?

Poor consumer knowledge and interest.  Lack of disposable income. Real need for automation and remote management when lifestyles don’t demand it – lack of compelling use cases.   Lack o ...read more

Tom Van Leeuwen, Product Line Manager at Alcatel-Lucent, answers the following industry questions prior to the 2015 CONNECTIONS Europe event taking place 10-11 November in Amsterdam:

What challenges does Europe face with rolling out new smart home and connected entertainment services?

Willingness to pay in Europe for smart home services is much lower than in the US, while in the area of connected entertainment services Europe is still trailing the US, but catching up. Eu ...read more

Wendy Toth, Vice President of Marketing for Ayla Networks, answers the following industry questions prior to the 2015 CONNECTIONS Europe event taking place 10-11 November in Amsterdam:

What challenges does Europe face with rolling out new smart home & connected entertainment services?

From Ayla's experience, we are seeing that the European market is facing a lot of the same challenges as the US market when rolling out new smart home & connected entertainment services; na ...read more

Werner Styrdom, VP of Technology for Irdeto, answers the following industry questions prior to the 2015 CONNECTIONS Europe event taking place 10-11 November in Amsterdam:

What challenges does Europe face with rolling out new smart home and connected entertainment services?

Cybercrime is big business, and has changed over the years to become a kind of “hacking as a service” – with tools of the trade such as botnets available for rent by the hour.

The rapidly developi ...read more