Boxee brings it all together

Informa has long believed that the winning video platform will be the one that most conveniently blends a mix of Live TV and OTT into one easy-to-use package for consumers. Conventional logic has always been that this would either come from one of four places: a Pay TV provider, one of the big CE OEMs, Apple or Google. These players are the ones with the clout required to both secure content deals, and to pull off the significant technical integration such a play would require. But at CES, the most compelling vision of this future came from a much more unlikely source: Boxee.

For the uninitiated, Boxee began as a piece of cross platform video software; that software is now integrated into two media streaming devices from D-Link and Iomega. What Boxee showed at CES was a live TV tuner. It’s incredibly simple: users buy  a $50 unit, which plugs in to the back of their TV; this simply takes whatever the user is watching and delivers it via the Boxee box and UI.

Crucially Boxee has done no content deals: the device simply takes whatever the user is watching on TV, no matter who a customer’s operator is. This means that your live TV simply sits as a menu option with all of your other OTT offerings. It also means no more having to flick between your Boxee box and your cable or satellite box.

This should be ringing alarm bells for operators. While it may seem counter intuitive to label a live TV device as a cord cutting device, it’s easy to see how some consumers might not want to take the additional sports (Boxee has deals with most of the big US sports leagues) and movie content, if they are to take all their OTT from the same platform.

Boxee may not be the answer for everyone. It is still a little more complex than what the mainstream needs and a few key OTT services – notably Hulu – are still missing. But for Informa’s money, this is the most compelling blend of live TV and OTT that we’ve seen to date. We’d be particularly excited if Boxee adds a DVR, which it says it is considering (although this would be a much harder feature than live to integrate without the support of the operators). And unfortunately for Informa, and anyone else outside North America, it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing this feature rolled out soon, due to the big differences between different Pay TV systems worldwide.

Watch Qualcomm discuss video over wifi at Broadband World Forum 2011

When Netflix decided to separate DVD delivery from its video streaming service, consumers rebelled. Many dropped both services and the company lost half its value on Wall Street. Trouble like this is commonplace for cable TV and satellite providers, which, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), both consistently rank low in customer satisfaction surveys.

The ACSI found that for the first two quarters of 2011, “higher fees are significantly dampening customer satisfaction [for cable and satellite TV service], more so than in other industries.” J.D. Powers drew a similar conclusion, finding that customer satisfaction for all TV services fell in 2010.

Price dissatisfaction is only one of the challenges facing TV service providers today.

An even more pressing problem is the fact that consumers are turning to the Internet for more and more rich media. Consumers want instant availability to content on any device, at any time and with the ability to switch from device to device on the fly without interrupting the service. But, the two devices that could potentially manage this device-to-device sharing, the set-top box and wifi gateway, weren’t designed to deliver multiple video streams over wireless connections. This results in a poor user experience.

As a result, consumers are starting to drop traditional cable TV services in favor of on-demand – or pirated content available on the Internet – and a new set of equipment. Consumers, and especially those in the under-30 demographic, simply aren’t satisfied with dated video delivery models.

“Why am I paying $100+ each month for 200+ channels when I only watch HGTV, the Travel Channel and sports?” they ask. “And why can’t I watch the shows I recorded on my DVR on my iPad or Android phone?”

Pay TV Delivery Model Fails to Keep Up with Consumer Preferences

Of course, one of the ways TV service providers respond to customer dissatisfaction is to point to the poor performance of online video. Netflix streams drop and its streaming catalog is growing, but still in the infancy stage. Hulu has limited content and suffers from the same performance issues as Netflix. YouTube is rife with useless and low-quality videos. Illegal BitTorrent videos take forever to download.

Consumers put up with these problems, though, because the price is right – anywhere from free to less than $10 per month. As the price rises, though, say for something like MLB.TV (Major League Baseball), consumers won’t settle for poor performance online any more than they do with cable or satellite TV.

In a pinched economy, the pressure to deliver only the content customers want will become increasingly important. If consumers can get what they want from online streaming and pay-per-view services, while saving money each month, they’ll opt for the flexibility and cost savings en masse. Meanwhile, cable TV and satellite providers may permanently lose their pathway into the home.

High Setup and Support Costs Apply Even More Pressure, Opening the Door to Google or Amazon?

Now, let’s throw yet another wrench into the mix: HDTV. Everyone wants HD streaming, and this demand is even more pronounced among early adopters. Consumers are seeking providers who can deliver HD content to any device, anywhere in the home, and with performance on par with or better than classic cable TV service. If TV service providers don’t think ahead and prepare their offering for this new demand someone else (Google? Amazon? A recovered Netflix?) will come along and steal their business. If past history foretells the future, an offer of a new and more attuned service at a lower price point often results in the demise of the established providers. Trying to ward off competitors using your existing model cannot be a viable strategy in a free market when your customers are crying for change.

The Way Forward: Video over wifi

Today, set-top boxes/DVRs are the hub of video services. An increasing number of savvy consumers dislike these devices, since they know that most new HDTVs have the computing power to make these set-top boxes unnecessary. Meanwhile, DVR functionality tends to be low, with most service providers actually dumbing down the devices by shutting down services and blocking peripheral ports. Thus, in-the-know consumers chafe at paying $15 each month for what is essentially an overpriced, underperforming storage device.

Set-top boxes could conceivably rebound to serve as a hub for video sharing, but most consumers want their content centralized on a device with better sharing capabilities, such as the home gateway. As content shifts away from set-top boxes, wifi gateways will become ever more important.

Unfortunately, today’s installed wifi networks aren’t quite ready for the coming “my content, my way, my device” consumer wave. Today’s gateways don’t yet enable you to start watching a program on your HDTV, before bumping it over to your netbook on the kitchen table and onwards to your iPad as you head to the basement to check on the laundry.

That doesn’t mean this is not technically feasible. It is. New high-capacity, multi-stream capable wifi solutions are starting to hit the market, and some of the major service providers have already expressed the intention to cash in on this new opportunity.

The opportunity for Video over wifi is huge. New, robust wifi solutions can stream content from Internet video services, direct content to be consumed later to appropriate consumer-picked storage depositories, facilitate in-house device-to-device sharing, and even enable carrier-approved P2P sharing to overcome network bottlenecks.

wifi gateways can even help providers lower opex and support costs. New customers will be able to log onto online self-service portals to get setup, and once service is established, carriers will have a better ability to remotely monitor service quality and troubleshoot without sending a service truck.

Is interference from a microwave oven causing an iPad in the kitchen to drop video streams? Onboard diagnostic tools in the wifi gateway will help remote technicians pinpoint the problem at a fraction of the cost of today’s cable or satellite service calls.

Let’s face it: the most important cable into the home these days is the broadband connection. Number two probably isn’t a cable at all, but rather cellular service. Cable and satellite TV services are a distant third. With carriers bundling services anyway, TV service providers would be well served to set their sights on the right cable into the home and the right box (the wifi gateway) to keep up with consumers’ changing behaviors.

Whichever cable TV or satellite provider, or whichever newcomer like Amazon, Google or Apple, figures out how to wirelessly stream multiple video services to multiple devices at once will be able to differentiate itself from competitors in a market where consumers often have trouble seeing any difference from one service provider to the next.

The first TV service provider to meet this challenge won’t have to answer the question of “Why am I paying so much for these services?” Customers of this forward-thinking provider will have a vast range of new services at their fingertips, services better tailored to meet their evolving consumption demands, and services for which they’ll be willing to pay.

Patrick Ribardiere is director of product management with a focus on carrier technologies in the networking business unit at Qualcomm Atheros.

Sources:

1. Netflix debacle: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/09/19/netflix_separates_its_dvd_streaming_businesses/?camp=obnetwork

2. Cable/satellite customer satisfaction survey: http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=246&Itemid=291

3. A good overview of cable TV satisfaction surveys: http://www.fiercecable.com/special-reports/cable-customer-service-struggles-climb

4. JD Power’s survey: Customers of traditional cable providers are particularly dissatisfied with their cost of service. (**NOTE: Last year this study came out on 10/6, so we may want to update this at the last minute.) http://businesscenter.jdpower.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?ID=2010166

Nonetheless, the development is still potentially highly significant, since it signals the first major entry of one of the big US “over the top” (OTT) players into a region that has the kind of high-bandwidth broadband networks that make the OTT guys drool.

Announcing the launch of the service, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar said that the company selected Japan as the first part of its Asia Pacific expansion strategy because of the high demand from Japanese consumers for video content.

Hulu, jointly owned by NBC Universal, News Corp., Walt Disney and Providence Equity Partners, launched its Japanese service on Sept. 1 with a relatively simple business model: For a flat fee of ¥1,480 (US$0.19) a month, subscribers get access to all of Hulu’s movies and TV dramas, which can then be viewed on some connected TVs as well as PCs, tablets, games consoles and even mobile handsets.

Hulu has entered into an exclusive mobile marketing partnership with mobile market leader NTT DoCoMo. Although the companies have not released full details of the deal, DoCoMo has said that it will use its LTE networks to stream Hulu content to tablet users.

A tough nut to crack

Although Hulu might be correct in assessing Japan as the best launch-pad for its Asia Pacific adventure, the company must also be savvy enough to realize that succeeding in Japan will be tough.

Even the country’s powerful private terrestrial broadcasters – Nippon TV, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo, Fuji TV and Tokyo Broadcasting System – have failed to excite much user interest in their online-video offerings on either a subscription-based or ad-supported basis.

Having grown frustrated with their dismal online offerings, the normal fierce rivals have teamed up with advertising giant Dentsu to launch a new service that will enable viewers to watch their content on connected TVs, with the five broadcasters making a total of 6,500 programs available at a cost of about ¥300 per one-hour episode.

But it is not only local broadcasters that are eager for a piece of the online-video pie. Sony launched a local version of the Qriocity video-streaming service in January, offering just 200 local programs priced between ¥500 and ¥1,000 per viewing, though the service has since expanded its content range.

Meanwhile, leading specialist online-video players Gyao, owned by Yahoo Japan, and Nico Nico Douga, owned by Niwango, have found it so tough to generate sufficient revenues in Japan that they are both expanding their operations overseas.

Japanese fixed-line operators are also eager to expand their own online-video services, largely as an extension of their IPTV services. NTT is enabling subscribers of its NTT Plala IPTV service to stream content to their smartphones, tablets and PCs, and leading cable operator Jupiter Telecommunications (J-Com) is planning a similar service.

What’s more, Hulu’s ambitions in the mobile market might well be tempered by the fact that tens of millions of mobile subscribers in Japan already have access to free-to-air broadcast mobile TV via the One-Seg mobile-TV-broadcasting service.

Content the key, as usual

Hulu has arrived in Japan with an array of licensing deals with the majority of US major content suppliers, including CBS, NBC Universal International Television, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney and Warner Bros.

Moreover, the company says that “additional content will be rapidly and continually added to the service” and, significantly, that it will also look to secure “Japanese-produced content and content from across the Asian region” – though the company has launched with no local content.

If there is one thing that any investor in Japan can tell you – especially the good folks at News Corp., which bowed out of DTH player SkyPerfecTV in 2003 – it is that good local content is absolutely critical to success.

Even though it has nearly 4 million subscribers, SkyPerfecTV has never been able to truly dominate the market, principally because it has relied too heavily on foreign content rather than focusing on developing a strong platform of local content. Hulu is obviously well aware of this and is eager to strike deals with local content producers to bring their content to the Hulu platform.

That seems to be the obvious path to travel, especially since Hulu is attempting a subscription-based revenue model with no ads. Hulu claims that it has selected the ad-free model for Japan because it fits in well with the unique requirements of the market.

The pressure is on

Regardless of the business model, the pressure must surely now be on Hulu to start putting together a respectable range of Japanese content to try to localize the platform and ensure that it does not follow the same path as SkyPerfecTV. But that is far easier said than done.

By far the biggest content providers in Japan are the five major terrestrial broadcasters, though there is a strong independent production sector as well. This includes J-Com, which produces content for the terrestrial broadcasters’ regular digital and satellite channel operations.

Considering that the terrestrial players and J-Com have their own strong online-video ambitions, it is hard to envision what value these companies would get from supplying their top local content to a market newcomer like Hulu. Hulu will most likely have to scout hard for Japanese content producers that do not have their own online-distribution ambitions – a tough task if ever there was one – if it wants to get the type and volume of new local content it is going to need to make Hulu Japan a success.

This, of course, is where things start to get tricky for Hulu. Good-quality content – even on a nonexclusive basis – does not come cheap. And do Hulu’s shareholders really want to shell out serious cash for new Japanese content, considering that they have no experience in such a complex market?

After all, even though Hulu Japan is being offered as an online service, it is still at its core a pay TV service, and quite frankly, what experience does anyone at Hulu have of running a pay TV service in Japan?

Even the Japanese find it difficult to run pay TV services in Japan.

As recently as 2005, HDTV-ready sets were present in just three per cent of the world’s TV households and still seen as something of a novel technology. However, HD set sales are growing rapidly with a net 60 million households forecast to be added in 2011 alone. This means that 23 per cent of the world’s primary TV sets will be HD-ready by year-end.

Owning an HD-ready set does not, of course, automatically mean reception of HD programming. But, by 2016, 70 per cent of the world’s homes with HD sets are forecast to be using them to watch HD programs. Again, the UK is ahead of the game, with 72 per cent of HD-ready homes expected to watch HD programming by 2016. But this time it is well behind the global leader, which is the US at 91 per cent. The UK lag is caused by the popularity of Freeview which is forecast to have only around half of its users watching HD programming by 2016.

* UK ranked 25th (38 per cent in 2011 rising to 72 per cent in 2016)

These numbers indicate that, by the end of the forecast period, TV services in several countries will be approaching the point where most, if not all, of their users are watching HD content. This raises the interesting prospect of a second wave of switchovers after 2016, with standard definition being switched off and HD effectively becoming the new standard definition. The extra capacity freed up by such a move would then raise the possibility of another generation of SuperHD appearing, which would offer an enhancement to what will, by then, have become standard HD.

Maasranga will deploy an all IP broadcast network

Bangladeshi broadcaster Maasranga, part of local conglomerate the Square Group, is upgrading its network to launch the first fully IP-based digital, HD and 3G-enabled rich media network in the country.

Maasranga has tapped cloud services provider KIT digital to help with its green-field development of central infrastructure and studio facilities, using the firm’s broadband video head-end software to more efficiently and cost-effectively produce, manage and deliver premium content. The deployment is to support the company’s new 24-7 news channel, Maasranga Television.

“Maasranga made an ambitious commitment to deploy the most advanced broadcast technology, in keeping with Bangladesh’s ongoing emergence, and through our partnership with KIT we are setting the groundwork to transition into multi-platform distribution over digital terrestrial, satellite, and IP networks, with single-point ingestion and asset management,” said Syed Fahim Munaim, CEO of Maasranga.

IPTV is coming to Australia's new National Broadband Network

NBN Co, the firm mandated by the Australian government to design, build and operate the country’s new fibre-based broadband network, has confirmed that it will offer multicast capabilities to service providers using the network that wish to deliver television services to their end-customers.

The multicast features are expected to be available from the middle of 2012, with product testing to start later this year, and will come at a price: the Multicast Access Virtual Circuit is priced at AUD 5 (US$ 5.15) per month for the first 20Mbps allocation, and can be ordered in additional increments.

A service provider will also need to purchase a Multicast Domain starting at AUD 250 per month per 100 Mbps at each point of interconnect they serve.

“Multicast will be available as an add-on feature to our fibre offering giving service providers the opportunity to introduce very attractive and competitive triple-play voice, broadband and video content to any of their fibre-based customers,” said Jim Hassell, Head of Product Development and Sales at NBN Co. “It is designed to assist retail service providers to offer new more specialist content such as non-English speaking channels, high-definition TV, 3DTV, interactive services and social TV – efficiently and cost-effectively.”

The new multicast features will deliver backhaul savings compared to delivery via multiple unicast streams, and NBN Co is also considering adding multicast capabilities to its satellite and soon-to-be-built 4G wireless networks.

A document detailing the upcoming multicast feature and seeking industry feedback has been published by NBN Co and is available here.

Bulgaria has seen two fibre broadband projects announced in the past two weeks

Bulgarian ISP EVO has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to provide gigabit passive optical network (GPON) technology for its upgrade to Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) connections.

Under the three-year contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will supply the customer premises equipment (CPE) and the Optical Line Termination Unit in order to consolidate all traffic from the CPEs as well as services such as installation and maintenance over to EVO.

EVO plans to use the new higher-capacity FTTH network to deliver higher broadband bandwidth and high-quality data services such as IPTV to its subscribers.

Incumbent telco Vivacom (formerly known as BTC) confirmed at the end of last month that it is planning to invest €600m in rolling out a Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) network which will cover 1mn households by 2014.

Fixed broadband services continue to attract new subscribers

The number of fixed broadband subscribers worldwide increased by 2.9 per cent on a consecutive basis in the first quarter of this year to reach 15.2 million, giving the biggest quarterly increase in the last two years, according to new figures announced by the Broadband Forum.

In a report compiled for the Forum by Point Topic, Asia was found to still be the fastest-growing region for broadband subscribers, with a growth rate of 16.2 per cent in the 12 months to March of this year—almost double that of the Americas.

Asia’s fixed broadband subscribers now make up 42 per cent of the global total, up from 40 per cent last year, with Europe and the Americas coming behind with 30 and 25 per cent respectively. Emerging markets are also believed to be making strides, with the Middle East and Latin America advancing quickly.

The strong Asian broadband growth is believed to be due in part to the continuing success of broadband in China, with 42 per cent of total net additions in the first quarter of this year coming from China and its territories (the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau).

IPTV was also found to have shown “exceptional” growth rates in the 12 months to March, with the number of worldwide subscribers increasing by over 34 per cent in the period to reach 48.2 million. France is still placed at the head of the table of top ten countries in terms of IPTV subscribers, with China a close second and Taiwan also now on the leader board in ninth place.

Europe continues to be the top-performing region for IPTV with over 21 million subscribers, but Asia is catching up fast with 18 million, and both China and Taiwan are showing annual growth rates of more than 50 per cent. Of the 2.9 million new IPTV subscribers added worldwide in the first quarter of this year, 1.4 million came from Asia, according to the report.

In terms of access technologies, fibre (including various hybrid DSL/fibre rollouts) is by far the fastest-growing, with an increase in its subscriber base of more than 20 per cent in the 12 months to March 2011. DSL and cable are also believed to still be growing, and for the first time fixed wireless access (FWA) technology is beginning to take off, according to the report.

The number of network-connected devices worldwide will exceed 15 billion by 2015

The number of network-connected devices worldwide will exceed 15 billion by 2015 – twice the world’s population, according to Cisco’s fifth annual Visual Networking Index Forecast.

The report predicts that the total amount of global internet traffic will quadruple between 2010 and 2015 and reach 966 exabytes per year (equal to 966 billion gigabytes). The projected increase in internet traffic between 2014 and 2015 alone is 200 exabytes, which is greater than the total amount of IP traffic generated globally in 2010.

Global IP traffic growth is being driven by four factors, according to Cisco: an increasing number of devices, such as tablets, smart phones, connected appliances and other smart machines; more internet users, as the total number worldwide is expected to reach nearly three billion by 2015 (more than 40 per cent of the world’s projected population); faster broadband speeds, with average speeds expected to increase four-fold from 7 Mbps in 2010 to 28 Mbps in 2015; and more video, with one million video minutes predicted to traverse the internet every second by 2015.

By 2015, global IP traffic is expected to reach 80.5 exabytes per month by 2015, up from approximately 20.2 exabytes in 2010. Average global IP traffic in 2015 is expected to reach 245 terabytes per second (equal to 245,000 gigabytes), equivalent to 200 million people streaming an HD movie at 1.2 Mbps simultaneously every day. The global online video community is expected to increase by approximately 500mn users by 2015, up from more than one billion internet video users in 2010.

The Asia Pacific region will generate the most IP traffic by 2015 (24.1 exabytes per month), according to the report, surpassing last year’s leader, North America (22.3 exabytes per month). The fastest-growing IP traffic regions for the forecast period are the Middle East and Africa, which is expected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 52 per cent over the next five years.

There is also expected to be a substantial change in the types of devices accessing the internet over the period: in 2010, PCs generated 97 per cent of consumer internet traffic, however this is predicted to fall to 87 per cent by 2015, as consumers continue to adopt devices such as tablets, smartphones and Connected TVs for accessing the internet.

Accessing the internet on web-enabled TVs is continuing to grow, according to Cisco, which predicts that by 2015, 10 per cent of global consumer internet traffic and 18 per cent of internet video traffic will be consumed via TVs.

Global advanced video traffic, which includes 3DTV and HDTV, is projected to grow 14-fold between 2010 and 2015. Global mobile internet data traffic meanwhile is expected to increase 26-fold over the period, reaching 6.3 exabytes per month (or 75 exabytes annually).

Communications test solution to keep customer satisfaction high while also reducing operational costs

Milpitas, Calif., March, 24, 2011 – After evaluating a number of competitive bids, Saudi Telecom (STC) has selected JDSU to provide a comprehensive IPTV end-to-end service assurance solution.  The solution will give STC the visibility to proactively detect and resolve IPTV service and network quality issues which will help speed repair times and ensure higher Quality-of-Service (QoS) for subscribers. 

The JDSU IPTV solution was also selected by STC for its ability to effectively reduce the complexity involved in assuring IPTV service end-to-end. The solution consolidates all troubleshooting software and hardware elements and offers an easy to access, efficient view of key performance indicators (KPIs) to identify service-affecting issues throughout the entire IPTV network.

“As we face high expectations for delivering quality IPTV services, we saw the need for a much more comprehensive test and measurement solution to help keep customer satisfaction high while also reducing operational costs,” said Eng. Maziad Al-Harbi, STC general manager, Network Services Solutions.  “JDSU’s IPTV solution was a winning combination – including JDSU’s successful IPTV installations, flexibility, intimate knowledge of video MPEG protocol, strong OSS experience and consultancy expertise.”

“With more consumers switching to IP-based television and video on demand, expectations for quality are higher than ever,” said Tom Smith, senior vice president in JDSU’s Communications Test and Measurement business segment.  “JDSU is proud to provide an IPTV solution that combines effective scalability and exceptional quality of service to STC at this exciting stage of their IPTV service launch.”

The solution for STC is comprised of several products/services:

• JDSU NetComplete® Home Performance Management (PM) – enables multi-play service providers to extend their service assurance capabilities into the home providing full Quality-of-Service (QoS) and Quality-of-Experience (QoE) reporting independent of access technologies used. NetComplete Home PM uses a standards-based methodology which enables flexibility, scalability and manageability of the solution.

• JDSU MVP-200 – monitors all programs simultaneously, without scanning, and allows engineers to perform detailed troubleshooting of a selected stream or program without any interruption to monitoring.

• The Observer RPM 400 (by Volicon) – eliminates manual, visual channel inspections, which is typically an expensive and time-consuming task. Observer RPM provides QoE analysis by automatically scanning all channels via post-set top box (STB) monitoring, logging and troubleshooting.

JDSU will also provide integration and customization of third party products as well as consulting, project management, product maintenance and training services. 

By implementing the newest and most advanced technologies, STC is able to continuously upgrade its systems and introduce new and innovative services that fulfill the aspirations and expectations of its customers.

About Saudi Telecom
STC (Saudi Telecom) is the leading national telecommunications services provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. STC provides four key services: Home services which include PSTN, broadband DSL, Personal services which include mobile telephone services and value added services, Enterprise services which provide advanced business data solutions to enterprises and Wholesale services that provide network services to other local operators. In the recent years STC grew beyond its local borders and went global forming a network of business and investments in various Gulf countries, Asia, and Africa. The company is present in Kuwait, Bahrain, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, and South Africa enabling it to provide services to a bigger customer base and increasing its total number of customers externally by studying and evaluating investment opportunities. For more information, visit STC on the Internet: http://www.stc.com.sa/

About JDSU
JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU; and TSX: JDU) innovates and markets diverse technologies that enhance the way people experience the world every day.  We enable fast, high-quality communications, secure financial transactions, reliable consumer electronics, green energy, differentiated brands and a host of other solutions. We provide these solutions through three business segments:  Communications Test and Measurement, Communications and Commercial Optical Products, and Advanced Optical Technologies. To learn more about JDSU, please visit www.jdsu.com and www.jdsu.tv and follow us on twitter.

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