SureWest Communications, the Roseville, Calif., telco that jumped out early with IPTV over a fiber-to-the-home network, is now jumping out early again by deploying a new CableLabs interactive TV specification on its Everest Broadband network in Kansas City. The Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) creates a uniform technical environment in which various kinds of interactive TV and targeted advertising applications can run on so-called "thin client" set-top boxes. Verizon also has reportedly used EBIF in the past, and it sound like it could become more popular with the rise of truly interactive TV services.
For more:
- read this story [1] at Light Reading's Cable Digital News
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The Everest Broadband acquisition has helped SureWest's numbers [2]
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Links:
[1] http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=165610&site=cdn
[2] http://www.fierceiptv.com/story/surewest-climbs-everest-to-new-iptv-heights/2008-05-13
[3] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/surewest-launches-voip-hd-dvr-services/2008-03-11