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  • Minerva Networks and SureWest in deal for IPTV system deployment

    Minerva Networks and SureWest in deal for IPTV system deployment

    MUMBAI: US-based IP Television (IPTV) delivery solutions provider Minerva Networks and the California-based open-platform provider SureWest Communications have announced enhancements to SureWest’s IPTV deployment with Minerva iTVManager 2.0 second-generation service management software.

    The software delivers new features, and offers performance and scalability improvements to support SureWest’s rapidly growing customer base.

    SureWest subscribers will enjoy improved on-screen navigation and enhanced parental controls. Intelligent use of multicast technology to refresh and cache EPG and VOD preview data reduce overall network traffic and improve system response. Minerva iTVManager features a native set-top box application that responds fast when changing channels or scrolling through VOD listings, states an official release.

    “We operate in a very competitive market and Minerva’s platform is critical to our success”, says SureWest CTO Bill DeMuth. “Switching our live subscribers over to the new system was a major project but, because of the close working relationship we have with Minerva, everything went very smoothly. We’re quite pleased with the results.”

    “SureWest is an innovator and one of the first telecommunications firms in North America to successfully deliver IPTV services to a large subscriber base,” founder, CEO of Mauro Bonomi Minerva Networks said. “We have been working closely with SureWest to define and develop advanced features that will benefit our entire customer base.”

  • Ideal Systems starts India operations

    Ideal Systems starts India operations

    Ideal Systems Asia Pacific Limited, a Hong Kong-based product distribution and system integration company, has started its Indian operations through its newly set up Indian affiliate – Ideal Broadcasting India Private Limited.

    The main objective of setting up and affiliated company in India is to make available hi-end and hi-quality consulting, budgeting, design, integration, installation and commissioning services to the constantly expanding broadcast market, according to a company release.

    Ideal Systems provides services in consultancy, system design, project management and integration. The company implements turnkey solutions in transmission, news rooms, post-production, studios, playout centers and Pay TV platforms for terrestrial and satellite broadcasters and post-production houses.

    Earlier Ideal had serviced the Indian market by building a complete 8-channel playout facility for Zee TV at Noida. They also scripted and created 12-channel DTH playout facility for Zee in Singapore. 

    The company was founded in 1989 by Jim Butler who designed and built Europe’s first all Digital Post-production facility, The Mill in London. 

    At present Ideal is working on the supply and building of two new complete DTH platforms, Baseband, MPEG Encoding, Conditional Access, and SMS Systems for TVB in Hong Kong and Los Angeles.

    Among its partners are Irdeto Access, Minerva Networks, Thomsom Broadcast Systems, AP NEWS-ENPS, Louth Automation, Chyron-Probel, Pinnacle Systems, Mirands, Virage, Jacobs Rimell, Leitch Technology, Trilogy and Skystream Corporation, the release states.