IBM to offer infrastructure solution for IPTV
The IPTV infrastructure solution from IBM aims to assist clients in optimising network usage, establishing competitive differentiation and entering new service areas with comprehensive IPTV services. The solution will utilise Cisco’s IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture to deliver advanced video services.
IBM says that it will provide business consulting, technical consulting, implementation services and flexible financing services from IBM Global Financing while Cisco, together with Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company, will deliver the next-generation IP and video infrastructure for the IPTV portion of the triple-play solution.
Service providers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are seeking to build state-of-the art technology platforms in order to offer video-based services to their customers. Their aim is to attract customers and gain a competitive advantage by offering next-generation entertainment services as the vital component.
IBM Global Technology Services says that it will help clients to plan, design, deploy and support their IPTV solutions, empowering firms to overcome technology challenges associated with multiple legacy networks and to become dynamic triple-play providers delivering voice, data and video services on a single IP network.
"We had the need for a more structured approach, both on the architectural front and also on finding the right solutions for building a proper and reliable IPTV platform,” says Birger Hauge, CIO, Dansk Bredband.
“IBM and Cisco worked with us to implement a full IPTV solution. Without their support Dansk Bredband would have had to procure, install and configure numerous architectural components to build the converged network, which would have been complex and time-consuming.”
Loading ...