Description

A few years ago, most Independent Operating Companies (IOCs)
realized that long-term success in a technology-driven market would
depend at least in part on their ability to deploy broadband-access
networks. Pulled by customers’ demands for more bandwidth and
pushed by growing competition from cable TV operators, many
IOCs subsequently decided to build networks that could deliver
the all-important triple play of video, data and voice services,
particularly HDTV, IPTV and VoD.