Alex Davies

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Experts in Wireless, Video and Energy

Experts in Wireless, Video and Energy

The low-power wireless smart home, buoyed by the big-name buy-in from the Matter project, is now paving the way for Thread dominance. This is according to a trio of senior Thread Group leaders, which spoke to Wireless Watch’s sister service, Faultline, last week, on the matter of whether Matter matters for the operators. Matter is an open standard being developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) – the body formerly called Connected Home over IP (CHIP). Matter ultimately boils down to…

There was a time when the HomeGrid Forum’s (HGF) power line technology – coined G.hn –was being pitched as a whole-home alternative to WiFi. These days have passed, and HGF is now looking at a pile of new applications outside the home, and to some extent, leaving the operators behind. However, HGF President Livia Rosu tells Faultline that G.hn still has an important role to play. Back in 2014 or so, the operators collectively whiffed a significant opportunity to be major players in the nascent s…

The coming year is going to be a turbulent one for the SVoD players, who are facing pressure from investors to start turning profits in these uncertain times – with Netflix quite happy to rub its rivals’ noses in it. The screw is turning on operators too, and so doors are opening for the smaller streamers to steal share from their larger rivals. In brief, we predict that the introduction of advertising is going to muddy the waters, in terms of financial visibility and performance metrics, which…

French streaming service Salto is at death’s door, with its three broadcast owners now meeting by the end of the month to decide the sentence. Faultline never held high hopes for the service, which now appears firmly on the chopping block – an immense fall from grace. French outlet La Lettre A broke…

The final session of the StreamTV Show was at least not painful to listen to. It was the first time Faultline got a peak behind the Adeia curtain, the licensing firm that was spun-out from Xperi recently, with the topic of live streaming at scale being the task at hand. For a bit of context, Özyeğin…

Ateme has added support for HDR10+ into its Titan Live transcoders, specifically by enabling the HDR metadata to be included alongside the regular SDR image – allowing decoders to add the two data streams together, and create a HDR image for display. Crucially, this is now part of the live content p…

It is a term that has been bubbling away as an undercurrent in the wider CDN market, but a Rethink TV investigation has at least quantified the size of the Decentralized CDN (D-CDN) trend. Put simply, it will scratch past 1% of total CDN traffic in 2026, around 115 Exabyte (EB), as part of this indu…

Satellite network operator SES has announced that it has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services. The pair have collaborated for a few years now, but the latest feature is a direct connection to the AWS Cloud environment, meaning SES users won’t have to use VPNs to route traffic. The gist …

While not quite the One Ring, the arrival of Matter opens the door for a significant attempt at solving the interoperability problems faced in the smart home. This should catch the eye of the operator crowd, which has viewed that particular endeavour as a major headache that would best be avoided. M…

So here we are, still tapping the NAB well for stories, in the drought conditions that the video industry always seems to regress to after a good tradeshow. The subject of a talk that caught our eye was delivering 8K content to consumer homes, with a focus on the codecs required. Of course, for many homes, 4K resolutions (not even full UHD signal quality) is laughably out of reach, due to the quality of the networks and last-mile infrastructure deployed by their ISPs. For others, it’s more a que…