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Featured Speakers
Steven Hawley
Owner and Principal Consulting Analyst, Advanced Media Strategies, LLC
The IPTV industry: Global persepectives on IPTV deployment
Steven Hawley is an independent consultant, industry analyst,
researcher to the telecommunications and digital media industries. His
consulting practice,
Advanced Media Strategies LLC (AMS), provides
subject matter expertise in the areas of Internet Protocol Television and
multi-service convergence: the delivery of live TV, on-demand video
and related interactive content services to consumer electronics
devices over fixed-line and wireless networks, using integrated service
delivery platforms.
Mr. Hawley is Senior IPTV Analyst for Multimedia Research Group
(MRG) Inc. and author of a series of IPTV reports published by Tracy
Swedlow's InteractiveTV Today [itvt]. He also is Editor of ipTV News
Analyst, an industry newsletter from UK-based Digital Media
Publishing. For five years, he contributed to Telephony Online and
Cable & Satellite International magazine.
He has appeared regularly as speaker or panel moderator at key industry events, including IPTV World
Forum Latin America, SATCON, TelcoTV, the annual conferences of the National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) and the United States Telecom Association (USTA), Red Button and others.
Mr. Hawley has consulted directly with more than three dozen IPTV industry clients through Advanced
Media Strategies.
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What is IPTV?
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) describes technologies that allow video programming to be
delivered using an IP-based network, as opposed to traditional delivery via radio waves or coaxial
cable. IPTV can be used to deliver both live content and stored, on-demand video.
What is the potential of IPTV?
IP-based video distribution promises significant advantages, including the ability to integrate
television with other IP-based services like high speed Internet access and VoIP. Using a single
network for both data and video distribution potentially allows for significant savings over
maintaining a separate coaxial plant.
A switched IP network also allows for the delivery of significantly more content and functionality.
Content remains within a defined network, and only the content the customer selects is sent into
the customer's device. That frees up bandwidth, and the customer's choice is less restricted by the
bandwidth of the last-mile network.
An IP-based platform also allows significant opportunities to make the TV viewing experience more
interactive and personalized.
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