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  • Pak telecom giant to use Verimatrix Video for its digital network

    Pak telecom giant to use Verimatrix Video for its digital network

    NEW DELHI: Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) has been deployed by the Pakistani telecommunications provider WorldCall Telecom for DVB to secure its digital cable (DVB-C) network and to support the transition to broadcast-hybrid service delivery.

     

    VCAS for DVB replaces WorldCall’s current security system, according to a Verimatrix release quoted by European site telecompaper.com.

     

    VCAS for DVB is designed to secure WorldCall’s linear content library and associated revenue for broadcast services over its DVB-C network, including WorldCall Cable TV services, which offers a diverse mix of drama, thriller, action, romance, news and documentaries over 300 channels.

     

    The service is managed via redundant head-ends in Karachi and Lahore and six regional headends in other cities of Pakistan. It is delivered using SandMartin BVA3006 HD set top boxes.

     

    The Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) will also be using the Verimatrix solution for supporting the transition to broadcast-hybrid service delivery.

     

    The cardless VCAS system supports future network expansion, including the addition of more advanced and flexible services, such as over-the-top (OTT) video delivery. 

  • Verimatrix appoints Steve Oetegenn as president

    Verimatrix appoints Steve Oetegenn as president

    NEW DELHI: Steve Oetegenn is all set to take over as the president of Verimatrix to assist the company to grow its pay-TV operator base.

     

    Oetegenn will support the growth of Verimatrix especially when several large digital video operators are transitioning to an IP-centric network infrastructure. He will also continue to lead the sales and marketing efforts.

     

    Before joining Verimatrix, he was COO of MediaSec Technologies, a provider of digital watermarking; COO of Argus Systems Group, a provider of internet server security software, and CEO of DCE Communication, a provider of business messaging systems.

  • Time Broadband to manufacture Amino IPTV boxes in India, plans to raise $70 million

    Time Broadband to manufacture Amino IPTV boxes in India, plans to raise $70 million

    MUMBAI: Time Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd. (TBSPL) plans to raise $70 million for manufacture of IPTV set-top boxes (STBs) and expansion of its content delivery network (CDN).

    The company has exclusively tied up with UK-based Amino Communications Ltd. to manufacture AmiNET125 H.264 AVC (MPEG-4, Part 10) compliant STBs in India. TBSPL will have the rights to sell these STBs in India, Middle East and parts of East Africa. The benefit of manufacturing these STBs in India will be to bring the cost below $100.

    “This is a significant development for us as India is a potentially big market for IPTV. We have manufacturing arrangements also in China and Taiwan,” says Amino Communications Ltd. vice president/general manager Roy Kirsopp.

    TBSPL, which has already raised $10 million and got a further $5 million from Dimensions Group, will raise a further $35 million in its second round of funding. This will be towards expanding the CDN for IPTV.

    “We are in talks for second round of investment and have got term sheets. We hope to tie up the funds by February-March,” says TBSPL managing director and CEO Sujata Dev.

    Another $35 million will be raised through sister company Broadband Tech Pvt. Ltd. for manufacture of STBs. The company is in talks with three consumer electronics companies for this. “We are negotiating with three state governments for getting subsidy. We are in talks with consumer electronics companies for the financing and manufacture of the STBs,” says Dev. The company is looking at Kolkata, Chennai or another city to set up the manufacturing facility.

    Amino has been paid an upfront amount of $1 million. “We have guaranteed Amino $10-12 million over 18 months. Dimensions Broadband UK has committed a $7 million exposure for this,” says Dev. The contract involves a fixed license fee and a royalty to Amino on the STBs sold.

    The AmiNET125 STB is designed on the DaVinci SoC chip from Texas Instruments and is integrated with Kasenna middleware and Verimatrix content protection.

    “The deal will enable TBSPL to execute mass deployments of our “MY TIME” IPTV package. STBs play the most critical role in the IPTV business.

    This relationship with a leading industry partner like Amino would further strengthen TBSPL in establishing the business matrix in the Indian market, capable of providing a total end-to-end CDN solution to telecom operator partners intending to launch IPTV,” says Dev.

    Adds Kirsopp: “We see opportunity in India, China and South America. This deal validates our licensing model where we tie up with local partners for local manufacturing.”

  • Times Broadband ready with content delivery network for IPTV

    Times Broadband ready with content delivery network for IPTV

    NEW DELHI: Times Broadband Services Pvt Ltd (TBSPL) has expressed its preparedness with a content delivery network for IPTV which it wants to offer to telecom and cable TV operators.

    “We are ready with 100 TV channels and have set up an agnostic platform,” said Times Broadband CEO Sujata Dev.

    TBSPL had tied up with MTNL to offer IPTV on the telecom major’s network. Now it is also looking at going with other telecom operators as well.

    The company expects 500 channels would come on board their platform for IPTV. TBSPL has already signed up with a few content providers which includes Time Media, IMI, Film and Television Producers’ Guild, Globecast and Star TV. “I cannot disclose the names of many others because IPTV would need a little more clarity as far as regulations are concerned and that would decide on the tariff of pay channels,” Dev said.

    Many broadcasters are hesitant to sign in as content providers because they are uncertain whether the service would be controlled by the Cas rules or treated under telecom or IT rules.

    “IPTV is a value-added service for a telecom operator and we hope that it would be dictated by telecom laws and regulations,” Dev said.

    The formal launch was done by minister of state for urban development and poverty alleviation, Ajay Maken, who declared this (IPTV technology) as an unthinkable revolution.

    Dev in her presentation said that TBSPL would aggregate content from multiple sources and provide the content delivery platform to telecom operators. The company has partners in Hewlett Packard, Optibase, Verimatrix, Kassena and Amino.

    Dev said that at the moment TBSPL is offering 100 TV channels, FTA, and list of pay channels as second tier; 10 feature films through video on demand with fast forward, rewind and pause features; 10 hours of music cutting across genres; 10 hours of interactive games, 10 hours of browsing and 100 TV-to-TV SMS. Later, there would come premium offerings, which will include video telephony on TV with plug-in camera; T-Banking, T-information; T-time shift TV, etc.

    The operation is intended as a conduit between the telecom operators and content producers and providers in the convergence space “In convergence technology there is always some discrepancy against one of the players, and this is where we play the role of the conduit,” Dev said.