New features of
SmartVision
Thales' SmartVision platform is now part of the
Grass Valley product portfolio, although it has a market
very different goal. SmartVision TV is a complete platform
of television services based on the IP protocol, capable of
offer content providers and end-users
multimedia and video distribution services more
powerful over high-speed networks such as xDSL, FTTx, Fast
Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet.
With more than 300,000 subscribers worldwide, the SmartVision TV platform expands with new facilities in countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
SmartVision TV provides users access to new value-added services including a new portal, live TV reception, electronic guides TV (EPG), presentation of mosaic programs, video by demand (VOD), subscription VOD, personal video recording (PVR) and voice over IP services as well as gaming and e-commerce.
SmartVision TV version 2.0 brings a rich systems management environment dedicated to the transport of live and on-demand programs on high-profile networks velocity. These systems include carrier-type infrastructures MPEG-4 AVC H-264, those with conditional access systems and that support live and on-demand high-definition content.
The SmartVision v2.0 Platform also supports access to interactive services within the Thomson triple play offer via telephone service Cirpack over IP. By seeking the greatest possible flexibility and provide any content, at any time and at any time place, regardless of the format, the platform also supports multiple terminals in the home (television sets, Hybrid STBs with PC/DTTP/IP and mobile phones), multiple streams per terminal (standard definition, HD, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC) and format-independent content delivery. Finally, it offers support to end users and suppliers of content an unhindered convergence with mobile TV with support of DVB-H/3G standard.
Harris Portfolio for
IPTV
Another supplier of the big ones that offers a complete package of
IPTV is Harris. Leitch's recent acquisition has given you
allowed Harris to complete the package. According to the company with
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Harris' IPTV products cover the
three levels of an IPTV architecture: operations and business,
infrastructure and testing, measurement, monitoring and management
of networks.
As far as the level of operations and business, including flow solutions work for sales, traffic and scheduling, management of digital assets and emission automation, the solution of Harris integrates a complete workflow for administration of content. This segment includes the products of the H-Class platform.
In the field of infrastructure, Leitch's products fit to provide signal processing, commercial insertion, routing and switching as well as transport services through the heart of the network. These include coding and distribution products NetVX for video networks, DTP-110 signal processors and DTP-220, X75 synchronizers, Panacea and Nexio servers.
Finally, the products of Harris for network performance optimization includes a broad portfolio of testing, measurement and monitoring products to maintain the integrity of the services offered on the network, such as those produced by Videotek.
Another related market in the which Harris shows his strengths is that of mobile television. Recently, the company participated in several networking projects pioneers in this type of service in the United States, Europe and Australia.
Transmission equipment Harris mobile televisions have been used to test the effectiveness of different standards for mobile transmission, such as DVB-H, FLO and T-DMB. During NAB 2006, Harris will show that its solutions go beyond transmission equipment and include infrastructure, broadband software and distribution.
