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Swedish Space Corporation
selects BitBand for Providing IPTV Services to Operators in
Scandinavia
Other Topics:
MPEG-2 HD PC1 Encoder,
IPTV Real Time Encoding
BitBand
May 23, 2006
Netanya, Israel -- BitBand, a leading provider of video delivery
solutions for Telcos' broadband IP networks, announced that it has
been selected by Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) for providing IPTV
services to operators from its ground station, Stockholm Teleport.
SSC is a comprehensive Swedish space industry that designs, tests,
launches and operates space systems. SSC’s ground station, Stockholm
Teleport, provides satellite communication services, including
uplink and downlink of TV and data, thus enabling Scandinavia based
operators to provide high quality IP TV services to their customers. |
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SSC's ground station, Stockholm Teleport, receives a large number of
TV channels and rebroadcasts them via broadband networks to various
operators at the same time. BitBand's solutions employed with SSC
are BitBand MaestroTM content distribution and server management
suite and BitBand VisionTM servers.
"Choosing BitBand for providing our customers with IPTV services is
based on the company's proven experience in the IPTV market, as well
as the solutions' high availability," said Karl Magnusson, Manager
Teleport Services SSC.
"We are honored to have been chosen by SSC, an innovative satellite
communications provider, and take part in providing high quality
entertainment packages and services to a growing number of operators
in Scandinavia," said Michael Katznelson, VP Sales, BitBand
About BitBand
BitBand (www.bitband.com) is a world leader in providing video
content 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 Maestro™
Content Distribution and Video network Management Suite and BitBand
Vision™ appliance servers form the most scalable and cost-effective
On-Demand solution existing today for the IP-TV environment. In the
exploding Broadband market reality, BitBand solutions enable Service
Providers to utilize the full potential of IP networks for VOD,
Time-shifted TV, and other high revenue services, including TV on
Demand, allowing Telcos and service providers to create a network
based personal video recorder (PVR) type service using standard IP
set top boxes. 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 the Swedish Space Corporation
The Swedish Space Corporation is a state-owned, commercial company
with about 300 employees at its locations in Solna (near Stockholm)
and Kiruna. SSC operates the Esrange facility outside Kiruna for
rocket and balloon launches for scientists from the whole world. SSC
also operates one of the world’s busiest civilian satellite ground
stations at Esrange, supporting a growing number of satellites. In
Solna, SSC develops state-of-the-art satellites, space vehicle
subsystems, payloads for rockets as well as airborne systems for
maritime surveillance. These products are sold on the international
market. Swedish Space Corporation owns 25 percent of SES – Sirius
AB, which distributes television and offers other telecommunication
services on its geostationary Sirius satellites. |
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