Gorham Communications Picks CSI Digital's D-Video for its IPTV Solution

CSI Digital’s D-Video! IPTV (News - Alert) solution, integrated with Verimatrix’s video content authority system, has been selected by Gorham Communications’ subsidiary, Gorham Telephony Company, for use in an end-to-end IPTV solution. The integration provides GCI (News - Alert) with a studio and broadcaster-approved IPTV video package.

 

The integrated solution enables GCI to build new infrastructure and market attractive services bundles to the existing and potential customer base, said Mike Murphy, president at GCI.

 

An IPTV wholesale video package, D-Video! enables network operators to upgrade their existing video plan and also realize an effective way to enter new markets. The content security solution, Verimatrix's (News - Alert) VCAS for IPTV 2.3, features end-to-end encryption for this IPTV business model.

 

Verimatrix's VCAS is capable of supporting a varied combination of centralized or distributed subscriber management. This includes mixes of middleware systems and set-top boxes (STB) to meet custom local needs of its IPTV retailer community.

 

CSI Digital leverages a worldwide satellite infrastructure, content, hardware and software licensing relationships to provide wholesale video.

 

“Verimatrix's support of the IPTV wholesale market makes our integrated and cost-effective solution an easy decision for our customers,” said Lu Bolden, president at CSI Digital, in a statement.

 

Bolden called content security an integral part of every IPTV deployment, adding that the company’s turn-key solution allows IPTV service providers to differentiate their services with premium content.

 

CSI Digital is an authorized reseller of Verimatrix's content security solutions. The company markets wholesale digital products and services that “simplify” a providers' delivery of video, voice and data services.

 

Verimatrix is a company that sets the standard for software-based content security and revenue enhancement technologies in pay-TV networks.

 

Noting that the economies of scale with the IPTV wholesale model are undeniable, Steve Oetegenn (News - Alert), chief sales and marketing officer at Verimatrix, said the company’s software-based content security solution provides the flexibility to enable GCI to “quickly” offer IPTV services.

 

Power & Tel (News - Alert), a distributor of telecommunications and cable TV equipment and partner of CSI Digital, introduced GCI to CSI Digital because its IPTV platform allows service providers to customize system components to meet their requirements.

 

Additionally, GCI said that it has selected Minerva's middleware and set-top boxes (STBs) from ADB for its new IPTV service, which is scheduled for a launch in January 2009. The service is expected to be delivered through GCI's recently upgraded fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network.