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2016: The Year of ____?

A Parks Associates-run Connections Summit panel about converged video services here at CES took a stab at what 2016 will be the Year Of with respect to video, and with the understanding that 2015 was the Year of OTT.

As you might imagine, the answers ran pretty closely to the core businesses of the panelists.

From the article "2016: The Year of ____?" by Jeff Baumgartner.

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