News Broadcasting
Juniper announces new product enhancements for IPTV delivery
BANGALORE: California- based, Juniper Networks, has announced a set of new product enhancements that further enable the efficiency and cost-effective delivery of Triple Play services.
The new product features are dynamic bandwidth allocation for the E-series Broadband Services Router and SDX Network Resource Manager for the E-, M- and T-series family of IP routing platforms, which can be utilized individually or together to provide an assured user experience.
This new feature, enables service providers to flexibly distribute bandwidth between the services offered to an individual subscriber. In contrast to other platforms that require service providers to pre-provision bandwidth per service, the E-series flexibly and efficiently adjusts service bandwidth based on subscriber activity, which reduces operational complexity and expense, informs an official release.
The Juniper Networks Service Deployment System (SDX) is a robust,customizable application for the E-, M- and T-series routers that enables service providers to rapidly create and deploy IP services to hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
The Network Resource Manager is the newest SDX
feature enhancement and provides end-to-end, policy-based management of video distribution to ensure efficient, quality delivery of service.
The SDX Network Resource Manager performs Call Admission Control (CAC) per video session request to assure the appropriate bandwidth is available to deliver the video stream with the required quality of service as specified in content distribution agreements.
Working with Juniper Networks E-, M- and T-series routers, the Network Resource Manager dynamically constructs Label Switched Paths (LSPs) from the video source to the network edge and automatically re-assigns allocated bandwidth for each video LSP based upon the utilization of the connection.
In the event of an outage, the SDX Network Resource Manager can transparently re-route LSPs or acquire the video content from a secondary source without disrupting the viewing experience.
“Juniper’s architecture is the industry’s best solution for cost-effectively delivering video content from multiple sources over a converged network infrastructure with an assured user experience,” says Juniper Networks CTO, for Asia Pacific, Andrew Coward.
He adds, “Service providers are choosing Juniper to support Triple Play services, such as IPTV, because we deliver a high-capacity, standards-based infrastructure that is both application agnostic and flexible enough to accommodate scale and changing service requirements.”
Juniper Networks is the leader in enabling secure and assured communications over a single IP network. The company’s purpose-built, high performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. The company delivers products for building networks that are tailored to the specific needs of their users, services and applications.
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
