IPVIDEO CONSULT
Experienced consulting for IPTV, VOD, Internet TV, Microsoft TV
Vendor Experience
Orca Interactive (LSE: ORCA) is a leading provider of IPTV middleware and applications for broadband operators and service providers.
Kasenna helps broadband service operators complete their triple play with a field-proven solution, PortalTV. PortalTV includes content delivery, services infrastructure, network management, middleware and content services. With its acquisition of ViewNow, Kasenna offers the industry's only turnkey source of IPTV infrastructure, applications, and VOD programming for video services.
Minerva Networks, Inc., is a provider of open-platform, carrier-class solutions for the delivery of television services over broadband IP networks. The company's television services management software and video processing systems are integrated into complete IP Television delivery platforms. Broadband network operators worldwide use Minerva's products and services to deliver next-generation entertainment and communications applications.
OpenTV developed and integrated and enhanced digital interactive application for EchoStar Communications Corporation's DISH Network. Available to all of DISH Network's subscribers at channel 100, the new DISH Home channel will allow viewers to simultaneously watch six video windows of popular networks including CNN, The Weather Channel and E! displayed on an attractive full-motion video background.
SeaChange is a provider of on-demand systems and software for broadband operators. More than 100 deployments with customers ranging from NTT, to Comcast, to NTL and others use SeaChange's comprehensive solutions to fulfill more than 100 million subscriber requests each month.
In April of 2005, Myrio became a division of Siemens Communications. Siemens acquired Myrio Corporation to further bolster and enhance a winning IPTV deployment formula, including successful solutions, industry leading implementation processes, and a thorough knowledge of the broadband service provider?s network infrastructure. This unique blend of expertise and technology profoundly benefits the broadband service provider, making IPTV a reality today.
Microsoft TV develops software platforms for service providers to deliver connected TV services and new entertainment experiences to consumer audiences worldwide. Our latest product release, Microsoft® Mediaroom™, is the evolution of the award-winning Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) software platform.
IPTV Consulting
Extensive Experience with Microsoft Mediaroom (Microsoft TV) and Alcatel
Our services range from system engineering consultation for most major IPTV systems to include Microsoft TV and Alcatel. We offer strategic business consultation and go-to-market and product strategy consulting for technology suppliers involved in the IP and interactive television sector. More specifically, we can help with video deployment issues such as engineering, installation, provisioning, interconnection, testing and documentation of network, system and subscriber parameters, followed by end-to-end operations readiness testing providing a fully integrated, tested, market-ready network. Hands on experience with Cisco Content Delivery System (CDS).
- Requirements definition services – for processes, tools and OSS/BSS
- Design and development of TV support services
- Test planning, execution and de-bugging
- Project planning support
Deployment Consulting Services
To help reduce uncertainty, complexity, and operational and financial risks associated with offering IP Video to subscribers. Consulting services also help create, validate and prioritize market entry strategies and business options.
We understand that IPTV is emerging from pilot programs to become a strategic imperative for progressive carriers, and that time to market, service quality and brand risk are becoming key factors for project leaders.
Our services have been developed to specifically address commercial deployments, where the service must be operationally scalable, repeatable and deliver a competitive customer experience against entrenched cable operators.
Product Lifecycle Management
Product life-cycle management: Development of business and functional requirements, functional specifications and product roadmaps that differentiate the client from its competitors.
Testing and isolating iterative problems can be enormously difficult. Lastly, content acquisition continues to be a significant challenge. Not only is it complex to manage the content acquisition process, but packaging and pricing it at a competitive level is also difficult.
Kelly Smith - IPVIDEO CONSULTIn order to effectively make broadband TV services attractive to consumers, service providers have to consider a number of things. For one, it's imperative to present oneself as a single provider for all broadband services, including voice, video and data. Thus, there is no consideration about offering a triple play because competition will win the battle if not. And to that end, the broadband network must be capable of delivering high quality real-time TV services as well as voice and data reliability and availability.
Careful planning is required because once the provider has acquired, custom-integrated, tested and deployed it's services, it's difficult to make any changes to the infrastructure. Notwithstanding the fact that everything from the set-top box to the head-end to the middleware must all play well together, the level of reliability consumers will expect makes it necessary to test the end-to-end solution and ensure it's complete operation, no matter what the conditions. This means iterative testing, which is difficult when combining different vendors who don't have integrated products. At the same time, the company must make the operational efficiencies related to provisioning, ordering and customer service the best that they can be.
Services Definition
Service-definition: business modeling, technology selection and market requirements development to help broadband service providers define new business initiatives, protect existing revenue and respond to competition by adding TV-based interactive services to their existing service line-up.
Business Strategy
Business Development and Marketing: development and assistance with business and technical partnerships, marketing programs, product/service launches and revenue-sustainment initiatives.
ipvideo consult can lead or catalyze business initiatives, including:
- Conceptualization of initiatives through close collaboration with company directors, executives, managers and functional team members
- Leadership and support that define and facilitate the delivery of a differentiated product or service
- Identification, establishment and nurturing of inter-company technology, product development and marketing partnerships