COLOGNE, Germany, June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Eutelsat Germany, the leading provider of ready-to-use TV
products and services for network operators in Europe, is radically expanding the scope of
its KabelKiosk service with the unveiling at ANGA COM of a turnkey
TV product for local and regional IP and cable network operators in
Germany.
The new service is designed to help IP network operators
optimise their fibre infrastructure by bolting video services onto
their established portfolio of telephony and Internet services. It
comprises comprehensive linear TV and non-linear services in
addition to solutions for secure distribution of content to
connected devices including iOS and Android smartphones and
tablets. The new features will also be available for KabelKiosk's
existing cable partners, enabling them to serve their DVB and IP
customers with an advanced multi-screen product.
IP network operators in Germany
that are mainly SMEs and affiliates of utility companies, each
serve between 20,000 and 50,000 households and are expected to
serve a technical reach of four million households by 2015. The
development by KabelKiosk of a wholesale video solution enables
them to transform their client relationship by jumpstarting
sophisticated TV services under their own brand that are in step
with consumer expectations for linear and non-linear content
seamlessly connected across screens and devices.
Eutelsat Germany is installing a new headend solution that will
be able to efficiently transform 50 HD and 100 SD channels into IP
and manage applications that include on-demand services, HbbTV
applications and live adaptive streaming to OTT set-top boxes,
smartphones and tablets. KabelKiosk's new multi-screen product will
be launched by the end of the year.
Martina Rutenbeck, Managing
Director of Eutelsat Germany, commented at ANGA COM: "Our strategy
with KabelKiosk is to assemble sophisticated video products that
network operators can customise as much or as little as they want.
The components of the new services unveiled at ANGA COM assemble
the know-how of leading players in IPTV, OTT, Digital Rights
Management and multi-screen services and we look forward to helping
IP and cable operators enrich their offer to clients across
Germany."
Partners involved in these developments include Tvinci for the
OTT backend offering, Harmonic for the video headend, and Playready
and Marlin for DRM. Rovi and PPS also helped supply VOD and EPG
solutions, while Farncombe, a provider of product strategy and
technical consultancy to the TV industry, helped to integrate the
solution.
About Eutelsat Communications
(http://www.eutelsat.com)
Eutelsat Communications is the holding company of Eutelsat S.A.
With capacity commercialised on 31 satellites delivering reach of
Europe, the Middle East,
Africa, Asia, significant parts of the Americas and
the Asia-Pacific, Eutelsat
Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is
one of the world's leading satellite operators. As of 31 March 2013, Eutelsat's satellites were
broadcasting more than 4,600 television channels to over 200
million cable and satellite homes in Europe, the Middle
East and Africa. The
Group's satellites also provide a wide range of services for TV
contribution, corporate networks and fixed and mobile broadband
markets. Headquartered in Paris,
Eutelsat and its subsidiaries employ over 780 commercial, technical
and operational professionals from 30 countries.
SOURCE Eutelsat Communications