By Staff, September 30, 2003
In its first visit to the annual SUPERCOMM convention, TANDBERG Television will display its open iTTV delivery platform for interactive television deployment via commercial xDSL and FTTH (fiber to the home). TANDBERG Television will demonstrate a complete head-end package designed to assist telcos and other non-traditional broadcasters to enter the broadcast market quickly and cost effectively with a field proven solution. The potential to offer a “Triple Play” service of telephony, high-speed internet and broadcast television over one network, coupled with true video-on-demand (VOD), creates substantial benefits to both operators and consumers.
Worldwide, TANDBERG Television has secured many significant “triple play” broadband wins, including Italian telecommunications company FastWeb, Europe’s largest FTTH deployment, and Lyse, a power utility company offering video, voice and data via FTTH
. Most recently, TANDBERG Television announced a $5.3 million contract from its North American business partner Acura Technology Group Inc. for the delivery of an end-to-end broadband video solution based on the iTTV Delivery Platform. Companies that deploy iTTV delivery platforms receive benefits such as higher picture quality at lower bit-rates with TANDBERG Television’s world-renowned encoding solutions, plus straight or bit-rate changed digital turnaround using MPEG-2 compression. Telcos interested in DSL deployments and companies with existing fiber-optic lines stand to benefit from the triple play possibilities of a broadband IP rollout. With iTTV, operators can offer triple play services with low start-up and operational costs.
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