Blog articles from 10/2011

Consumers are becoming more enthusiastic, and also more demanding, for connected home solutions. "Connected Home Services: Your Front Door to Revenue Growth," a webcast hosted by Motorola Mobility and Parks Associates on October 27th , 1 p.m. CT , will address the core opportunities and implications for service providers, retailers, and other key players in these markets. Parks Associates research finds one-fourth of U.S. broadband households would like a home security...

Parks Associates is participating at the 3rd annual CDN World Summit  this week in London. Arthur Baanders, European Research Representative for Parks Associates will be leading the analyst briefing on Thursday, October 27th at 8:00 AM. The session, "CDN Revenue Forecast in an Increasingly Competitive Market and Examining the Business Case for Operating CDN as a Loss Leader Giving Route to Market for More Profitable VAS" includes forecasting revenue...

Parks Associates is supporting the 10th annual TelcoTV 2011 this week (Oct 25-27) in New Orleans, Louisiana. Brett Sappington , Director of Research, Parks Associates is speaking on the session "Going Hybrid: Merging OTT with TV Everywhere and Licensed Content" on October 25 from 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM. While consumers want a wide choice of content, the key challenge for service providers is to deliver a unified content user experience across all...

Brett Sappington, Director of Research, Parks Associates , is participating on the panel, “Cloud Applications: What’s the Opportunity” on Tuesday, October 25th from 11 AM - 12 noon at the Cloud Services Summit . This summit is co-lcoated with the 2011 TelcoTV Conference in New Orleans. By leveraging the cloud opportunity, service providers can add tremendous value over and above pure connectivity. In so doing, they escape the trap of just providing a ‘dump pipe’ and...

Parks Associates is a media partner for IP Cable World Summit: Combining the Bandwidth of Cable with the Flexibility of IP this week in London. Parks Associates is also hosting the pre-conference workshop "IP Connectivity in the Home" on October 17 from 1:00 - 5:00 PM. The market for consumer-oriented digital lifestyles products and services will surge in the next five years, driven by widespread broadband connectivity, advanced TV services, new entertainment and...

Parks Associates is supporting IP&TV Forum Eastern Europe & EurAsia 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey from October 11-12.  Following the success of the IP&TV Forum Eastern Europe & EurAsia in 2010, the fifth annual show will go back to Istanbul to explore the next stage of development with multiplatform services in Turkey as one the highest growth markets in the region. It will look at IP platform potential in all south-eastern European countries like Bulgaria,...

Google, Verizon Wireless, Parks Associates, Samsung, Sprint, Sony Ericsson, YouTube to speak at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco from November 2-4.  Now in its 4th year The Open Mobile Summit is widely recognized as the thought-leadership event for business leaders in mobile, Internet and media convergence.   Special highlighted sessions include: Fireside Chat: Connected Car November 2, 2011 2:15 - 3:15 PM Speakers: Sprint and Chrysler...

Parks Associates President, Stuart Sikes will one of the keynote presenter during the IPSO Alliance Press Conference and Reception, "The Internet of Things and Smart Energy Technology"     on October 12th from 4:00 - 7:00 PM in Santa Clara, California. Other presenters include: -- Whitfield Diffie, father of public key encryption  -- Bo Begole, Senior Scientist from Xerox PARC IPSO Alliance members featuring product...