OpenTV Teams With Innovative Systems to Deliver Turnkey IPTV Solution
September 12 2006 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Integrated End-to-End Solution for Telcos to Offer Digital Video,
VOD, and Interactive Television SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ:OPTV), a leading
provider of enabling technologies for advanced digital television
services, and Innovative Systems, a leading supplier of advanced
telephony technology and services, today announced a strategic
partnership to provide integrated, turn-key IPTV solutions for
telcos. This solution will enable telcos to include advanced
digital video, interactive television, and advanced telephony
services as part of their offering. Innovative Systems, leveraging
its national sales and support team, will market the solution,
which will consist of IPTV set-tops running OpenTV Core2(TM)
middleware together with personal video recording software and a
suite of interactive television and telephony applications. The
solution will include an electronic program guide (EPG) with video
on demand capability as well as on-screen caller ID, voicemail, and
other IPTV -- Internet -- Telephony blended services. "This
relationship accelerates our continued progress in the evolving
IPTV world, enabling us to leverage our core competencies in
advanced digital television with Innovative Systems' significant
experience and customer relationships in the independent telco
market," said James A. (Jim) Chiddix, CEO of OpenTV. "By offering a
complete, turn-key IPTV solution, we hope to accelerate the time to
market that telcos can expect. And by partnering with Innovative,
which has a long and successful track record in the independent
telco market with more than 500 customers, we think we can make
faster progress developing and delivering a reliable, scalable
solution that will form the basis for the continued extension of
our product lineup." The integrated IPTV solution will initially be
built for the Amino family of set-top boxes and will include
support for MPEG 2/4, personal video recording, standard definition
and high definition video. Additionally, the solution will include
VOD capability and a suite of interactive television and telephony
applications, including news, weather, sports, and on-screen
control of telephony services, including caller ID and voicemail
management. Innovative Systems will offer an integrated headend
server, based on its recently announced IMS Application Server for
set-top-box and subscriber management. The IMS/IPTV server will
include OpenTV's Streamer(TM) and Notify(TM) capabilities, enabling
IPTV management, interactive TV application distribution, and
dynamic messaging capability in a redundant carrier grade hardware
platform. "We see a real need in the independent telco market for a
more full- featured IPTV solution than is currently available. We
are very excited to be partnering with OpenTV, one of the world's
top middleware providers," said Roger Musick, CEO of Innovative
Systems. "We have a long history of developing advanced features,
and OpenTV's technology platform will allow Innovative Systems to
develop next generation blended services that enable our customers
to offer differentiated services, dramatically improving their
ability to compete in their markets." About Open TV OpenTV is one
of the world's leading providers of technologies and services
enabling the delivery of digital and interactive television. The
company's software has been integrated in over 70 million digital
set-top- boxes in 96 countries. The software enables enhanced
program guides, video-on- demand, personal video recording,
enhanced television, interactive shopping, interactive and
addressable advertising, games and gaming and a variety of consumer
care and communication applications. For more information, please
visit http://www.opentv.com/ . About Innovative Systems Respected
customer support, carrier grade products and an industry leading
vision are the foundation of Innovative Systems. Innovative Systems
is a dominant provider of enhanced service platforms and
Operational Support Systems (OSS). The Innovative Systems
Application Peripheral (AP) is the most feature rich and widely
deployed platform in the industry with over 700 systems in service
working with all central office types. The recently developed
eLation OSS solutions have already proven to be a great market
success with sixty plus customers in the first 30 months. For more
information, please contact your Innovative Systems sales
representative, Innovative Systems office or visit
http://www.innovsys.com/ . DATASOURCE: OpenTV, Inc. CONTACT:
Barbara Cassidy of OpenTV, +1-415-962-5055, or ; or Doug Powers of
Innovative Systems, +1-605-995-6120, or ; or Ray Yeung, , or Matt
Hantz, , both of Brainerd Communicators, Inc, +1-212-986-6667, for
OpenTV Web site: http://www.opentv.com/ http://www.innovsys.com/
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