 TANDBERG Television is recognized as the market leader in the provision of IPTV video head-end solutions and has expanded compression capabilities thanks to the recent purchase of SkyStream.
The acquisition combines two highly complementary, best-in-class technology lines, providing increased encoding density and new transcoding solutions and expanding the TANDBERG premium SD video quality and HD AVC encoding. The result is the industry’s broadest and most flexible IPTV video head-end range, built on years of engineering excellence and already deployed by over 130 IPTV operators and delivering next generation TV services to in excess of 2 million subscribers world-wide. TANDBERG Television’s IPTV Video head-end range, packaged in telco or broadcast chassis form factors, presents the industry’s widest selection of encoding and video processing technologies for streaming, transrating, transcoding, high density encoding and premium encoding with solutions that are shipping today for standard definition and high definition MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC and SMPTE VC-1. TANDBERG Television’s carrier-class IPTV solutions include: compression head-end; set-top-box middleware; on-demand content management; advanced advertising solutions and interactive TV applications; interoperability with all major DRM and CPE/STB components; and 24x7x365 Network Operations Centre (NOC). The company boasts strong expertise in project planning, engineering, building, testing, installing and commissioning gained through real-world deployments. This expertise is recognized throughout the industry and TANDBERG Television is working as a video head-end provider with major integration companies such as Accenture, Alcatel, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Microsoft and Siemens. TANDBERG Television’s solutions can be applied to IPTV applications based on ADSL, VDSL, FTTH or Ethernet delivery to the subscriber. Using TANDBERG Television’s innovative technology, a number of major clients around the world have successfully deployed IP-based video content services. These include: · - PCCW – over 500,000 subscribers in Hong Kong, PCCW operates the world’s largest IPTV service called NOW Broadband TV and is currently introducing HD over DSL. ·
- France Telecom – providing the MPEG-4 AVC SD platform for the roll-out of IPTV by GlobeCast for France Telecom’s MaLigneTV. ·
- Swisscom – providing the VC-1 video head-end for this Alcatel/Microsoft based IPTV system. ·
- KPN – working with Siemens as MPEG-4 AVC video head-end supplier. ·
- Belgacom – working with Siemens as MPEG-4 AVC video head-end supplier. · Shanghai Telecom – using MPEG-4 AVC video compression for the deployment of IPTV for Shanghai Telecom and the Shanghai Media Group. ·
- Sistema – working with Alcatel as MPEG-2 video head-end supplier. ·
- Fastweb – video head-end supplier for Europe’s largest IPTV system. ·
- Lyse Energy – system provider for IPTV system that includes middleware, CA, VOD & live TV. ·
- TDS Telecom – 7th largest independent telco in the US and #480 on Fortune 500 deploying 670 IPTV channels across three states ·
- NTT – world’s largest telecommunications provider offering MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC IPTV over its Fiber and DSL networks For more information please visit:
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