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Vancouver company says it has answer for IPTV rebuilds

VANCOUVER – A Vancouver based company specializing in advanced video coding techniques, said this week that it can provide broadcast TV – even high definition – at loop lengths of over 18,000 feet. “The telecommunications industry is in the midst of radical restructuring," Even Technologies CEO Nick Ringma said at the Financial Times World Communications Conference in London England. "Telephone companies are having to introduce valuable new services, such as Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) to complement declining voice revenues. By adding services such as television and video on demand to their service offering, telephone companies are able to reduce subscriber...