What a Botnet Looks Like

A really nice tool to check the inners of a botnet.

Network Neutrality is Dead

So UK ISPs are furious with BBC's iPlayer and want the broadcasting company to fund their network's upgrade. In the meanwhile in the US Comcast is blocking BitTorrent traffic. Network neutrality ("a load of bollocks", as Virgin Media's CEO puts it) had better days...

It's getting congested out there! :)

Telco IPTV Households Now 14 Million Worldwide, says Parks Associates

The number of households worldwide using telco/IPTV services grew from 4.7 million in 2006 to exceed 14 million in 2007, according to a research whitepaper by Parks Associates. Europe leads with nearly 60 percent of telco/IPTV households worldwide. The analysts define Telco/IPTV as landline-based multichannel and on-demand video services provided by a telephone operator. Free whitepaper.

in Tekrati

Interdomain Multicast Solutions Guide

Maybe an interesting book (the best thing is that it's free):

http://ccnacertificate.blogspot.com/2008/04/interdomain-multicast-solutions-guide.html 

France dominates European IPTV

Country has 75 per cent of IPTV subscriptions in Western Europe

The latest World Broadband Information Service from Informa Telecoms & Media noted that France has nearly 10 times as many IPTV subscriptions as second-placed Spain and close to 75 per cent of the Western Europe total.

in vnunet.com

NOSSDAV 2007

NOSSDAV 2007 has some rather interesting papers on IPTV, so it is worth to check the conference's website.

Internship in Telefonica R&D, Barcelona

I have been a little quiet for some time because I am now in Telefonica Research Labs in Barcelona, so I've been quite busy moving, finding a place, etc. I am here for a 3 or 6 month internship as part of my PhD. I am working on "user profiling for IPTV". I have lots (hundreds of GB!) of interesting data from Imagenio (Telefonica's IPTV service) - switching logs, EPG (Electronic Program Guide) information - to analyse.

This data is very useful for user profiling and recommendation systems (to be used for targeted advertisement, for instance), and I am sure will also be useful for my PhD research, as input to my simulations.