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FASTWEB Boosts Video
Storage and Streaming Capacities throughout Italy with BitBand's New
Vision 880 VOD Servers
Other Topics: 3Gbps Video
Transport Solutions, IPTV
Intelligent Transport Stream,
End-to-End Encryption
BitBand
April 16, 2007
Netanya, Israel -- BitBand, a leading provider of video delivery
solutions for broadband IP networks, today announced that FASTWEB is
installing BitBand's new Vision 880 Video On Demand servers
throughout FASTWEB's points of presence in Italy, providing higher
streaming throughput and increased storage capacities, thus enabling
FASTWEB to easily expand the delivery of IPTV services.
FASTWEB is Italy’s leading provider of commercial converged
triple-play services over broadband and one of the most successful
triple-play service providers in the world today. BitBand’s video
solutions enable FASTWEB to deliver high quality IPTV VOD (Video on
Demand), NPVR (Network Personal Video Recording) and Catch-Up TV
services to subscribers throughout Italy. |
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BitBand Vision 880 servers employ
BitBand X:Stream™, BitBand's new high performance streaming
technology, offering more than 7 Gbps streaming throughput and
storing up to 10,000 hours of H.264 SD Video on a standard server
platform. The Vision 880 servers provided add more than 100
Terabytes of storage to the FASTWEB IPTV network.
“Our goal to continue improving the high quality of experience and
service offering to our IPTV customer base is supported by our
tenured partnership with BitBand and their ability to provide a
highly scalable infrastructure. BitBand is a trusted VOD partner to
FASTWEB since its very beginning and we continue to rely on their
advanced technology and company responsiveness to support us.” said
Daniele Bianchini, Director of FASTWEBLabs, FASTWEB.
"We are committed to continue serving the most diverse and advanced
IPTV service in the world and we thank FASTWEB for its continued
trust and for using our new products for delivering VoD content to
their subscribers,” said Yuval Sovinsky, EVP Strategy & Marketing,
BitBand. “Our technology enables a scaleable hierarchical Video
Delivery Network based on video servers offering very high video
streaming performance from both the hard disk and main memory (RAM
based streaming)”
About BitBand
BitBand (www.bitband.com) is a world leader in providing video
content distribution and delivery solutions over IP broadband
networks for Telcos. The company's solutions are targeted at large
scale deployments of TV-centric residential subscribers and are
optimized for Telco's hybrid and distributed network architectures.
BitBand MaestroTM Content Distribution and Video network Management
Suite and BitBand VisionTM appliance servers form the most scalable
and cost-effective On-Demand solution existing today for the IP-TV
environment. BitBand helps Telcos and Next Generation Service
Providers realize the Triple Play offering, enabling quick entry
into new markets, faster ROI and a safe track to profitable large
scale service. BitBand’s technology is field proven and widely
deployed, serving more commercial subscribers than any other IP-TV
VOD technology vendor. Additionally, BitBand partners with many
system integrators and suppliers of other components of the IP-TV
value chain, to provide the operator with a complete end-to-end
solution.
About FASTWEB
FASTWEB (www.FASTWEB.it) is Italy’s second largest fixed
telephony operator and the first player worldwide to develop an all
IP network for Triple Play service delivery, currently operating in
more than 130 Italian cities via a network of more than 22,000 km.
FASTWEB uses a unique technological model combining extensive use of
the Internet Protocol (IP) for voice, data and video transmission
with optical fiber and xDSL technology. For business users it offers
advanced competitive services in all market segments – public
authorities, large, medium and small organizations, professionals,
business concerns, universities and research. The residential offer
provides Internet access at the top speed available today in Italy
(up to 10 Mbit/s for optical fiber; 6 Mbit/s for ADSL, the
possibility to raise the access rate up to 20 Mbit/s using ADSL 2
PLUS technology and the transmission rate to 1 Mbit/s), as well as a
growing range of high value added video services (including video on
demand). |
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