Nortel Blurs the Boundaries Between TV and Interactive Applications at TelcoTV ‘08
Nortel IPTV Solutions Converge Entertainment with Communications to Create Personalized Video Applications
NOVEMBER 12, 2008 ANAHEIM - Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] is showcasing IPTV and Video solutions that are blurring the boundaries across TV, Internet, consumer devices and mobile phones by integrating services like text messaging, VoIP, media sharing, and interactive applications into the entertainment experience. Nortel is demonstrating these capabilities at TelcoTV 2008 ** from November 11 to 13.
Nortel's video solutions make it possible for service providers to blend the applications and communications capabilities of computers and mobile devices with TV programming to enhance the entertainment experience. This allows interactive and multimedia Internet applications like text messaging, photo and video sharing, as well as VoIP, to be easily accessed while viewing TV or video on demand. For example, sports enthusiasts can text friendly rivals right from their TVs during a big game. Or, consumers can order a new product directly from an ad on their TV with a simple click of the remote control connecting them with the sellers through VoIP or text messaging. Nortel's IPTV solutions also allow users to take TV content out of the house to be viewed on a mobile phone or laptop.
"Nortel's video solutions can take service providers beyond bundling of services to true convergence of entertainment and interactive applications," said Sameer Sheth, general manager, Video Solutions, Nortel. "Nortel allows service providers to create a more personalized and convenient user experience for their subscribers where any device can be used for a multitude of functions. For example, a TV, computer or mobile phone can be used to watch video on demand from a single account. A TV can be used to order a pizza, buy tickets to an event, or share photos with friends."
Nortel's IPTV solutions will be used to bring enhanced entertainment to subscribers by such customers as Spruce Knob Seneca Rocks **, a telecom service provider in West Virginia; BIT **, a service provider in Virginia; and Yadkin Valley Telecom **, an operator serving over 30,000 households in North Carolina. Both Spruce Knob Seneca Rocks and BIT will deploy Nortel's Communications Module 9520 to bring new interactive applications such as click-to-call, text messaging and picture sharing to their television subscribers. Yadkin Valley Telecom is implementing Nortel's pre-integrated IPTV Solution to provide a secure, reliable, scaleable high-definition entertainment service.
In this era of Hyperconnectivity where any device or application that should be connected to the network is being connected, Nortel's video solutions give service
providers the ability to leverage a multitude of different devices - TV, Blu-ray ** player, computer, mobile phone - in an open environment to create new services and applications designed to generate additional revenues from their network investment. But offering these new interactive applications on many devices can lead to an explosion in bandwidth demand on networks as well.
To help service providers meet this demand, Nortel's Ethernet Access solution based on WDM PON technology provides dedicated, super-fast, secure, and reliable optical bandwidth starting with speeds of 100 Mbps and easily scalable as services grow on a foundational infrastructure. At Telco TV Nortel will demonstrate the delivery of IPTV, VoIP , and data services over Ethernet Access based on WDM-PON, including simple network management and recovery of services.
Here are other IPTV and video applications Nortel is demonstrating in booth #401 at TelcoTV 2008 in Anaheim, CA:
TV widgets - a TV interface that users can personalize, much like they would on a computer, displaying content such as the latest news, weather, sports schedules, and video on the TV screen. Convergence of consumer electronics with entertainment, providing the ability to perform interactive two-way multimedia communication between a mobile device and an Internet connected BD-Live ** Blu-ray player. With this capability, consumers can receive photos on a Blu-ray player and make a click-to-call back to the sender. Single subscription video services that allow a subscriber to order video on demand from a set top box and then watch it on other devices, such as a TV (with set top box), mobile phone or laptop. Interactive TV advertising that puts merchandise only a "click-to-call" or "click-to-purchase" away A network based digital vault that can be accessed from anywhere, allowing users to share and store pictures and personal videos from mobile to PC and vice versa.
These demonstrations are testament to Nortel's strength in delivering applications that allow service providers to innovate and monetize personalized video applications, leverage existing network investment and enhance consumers' experiences. Nortel's video solutions enable and leverage an open Video Services Platform that is part of the company's Agile Communications Environment , promoting third-party application development.
Nortel is working with companies at the forefront of consumer electronics to help service providers' extend the reach of communications applications to consumer electronics by developing advanced application convergence opportunities with BD-Live capable Blu-ray players. The companies include RCDb **, a leading developer of network services and software for Blu-ray discs and devices and Vantrix **, a leading provider of content adaptation and optimization solutions for converged wireless, broadband and cable networks.
Nortel experts will be contributing to two panel sessions at Telco TV:
Peter Ashton, Nortel IPTV Product Marketing, will speak at a panel session in the Consumer Experience track called Integrating the Social Network Experience: Fad or Reality? on November 12, 4:30 to 5:30 PM Richard Brand, Nortel Video Solutions and vice-chair of ATIS ** IPTV Interoperability Forum, will moderate a panel session in the Evolve with Technology track called Set Top Box Evolution: Gateway to the Home? on November 13, 2:15 to 3:15 PM.
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com . For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news .
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Vantrix solution helps MTS bring rich Video, Music and TV Content to Mobile Customers
Moscow, Russia and Montreal, Canada, USA — February 16, 2010 — Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, today announced that MTS (Mobile TeleSystems OJSC), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) with over 102 million subscribers, has selected Vantrix for its content portal, Omlet.ru. Omlet.ru is an online and mobile content platform from MTS that offers a large selection of licensed videos, music, games and TV.
Vantrix Media Broadcaster, the leading end-to-end solution for delivering optimized multimedia to mobile devices and web portals, was selected by MTS to address the growing demand for video content. The market for content delivery over mobile or fixed networks in Russia is rapidly growing as more consumers get online and the awareness of device capabilities increases. Network providers are faced with the exploding demand of mobile video, resulting in an increased demand on their network.
“Building on our reputation as the leader and the highest quality operator in the region, MTS launched Omlet.ru last September, delivering a large selection of licensed videos, music, games and TV to consumers in our markets,” said Pavel Roytberg, Director for products and services at MTS Russia. “The ability of Vantrix to meet the overwhelming growth in video demand has helped us rapidly increase the user base of the service. We’ve coupled our technological success with a consistent message of quality and leadership in the marketplace.”
“To address the growing market for live and on-demand video over mobile and fixed networks, operators are increasingly turning to the only proven solution that provides complete interoperability between heterogeneous screen-types and networks.” said Allan Benchetrit, President & CEO of Vantrix. “Vantrix provides a high performance media streaming platform that optimally manages available bandwidth while ensuring the best user experience on any device or web portal and across networks using different standards. Clearly, MTS Russia is now poised to address these challenges head-on.”
About MTS
Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS”) is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS. Together with its subsidiaries, the Company services over 97.81 million subscribers. The regions of Russia, as well as Armenia, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, in which MTS and its associates and subsidiaries are licensed to provide GSM services, have a total population of more than 230 million. Since June 2000, MTS’ Level 3 ADRs have been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol MBT).
About Vantrix
Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, ensures the richest user experience and most cost-effective roll-out of premium services such as mobile and web TV, video on demand, MMS and user generated content. Vantrix customers include Sprint, Orange, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Telia-Sonera, MTS, Etisalat, Saudi Arabia Telecom, and Tata Telecom, reaching over 700 million subscribers worldwide. Vantrix is the recipient of several awards in 2009, including Frost & Sullivan's Mobile Content Optimization Solution of the Year, Network Product Guide's Best Convergence Product, and Visiongain's Mobile Content Award for Best Mobile TV and Video Service. Vantrix is headquartered in Montreal with offices in London, Hong Kong, and Dubai. To learn more about Vantrix, visit our website at www.vantrix.com
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Vantrix proven and patented technology to address the largest and most costly mobile network challenge
Montreal, Canada and Barcelona, Spain — February 15, 2010 — — Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, today announced the commercial availability of Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer, the premier media optimization and bandwidth management solution for mobile video.
Over the last several months, reports from industry analysts and telecom equipment vendors have highlighted an impending threat on mobile networks. Mobile data traffic is to grow exponentially over the next years and video is the main source of this surge. While most operators will see a moderate increase in their revenues from data (less than 50%), they will need to manage 50 to 100 times more video traffic on their network.
Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer lets network operators capitalize on the growing “mobile data tsunami” by providing up to 50% savings of CAPEX and OPEX for data delivery.
“There are inherent inefficiencies in mobile video delivery today,” said Patrick Lopez, Chief Marketing Officer, Vantrix. “Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer stops the waste incurred by operators in delivering videos to mobiles, tablets and laptops and can effectively double the capacity of an existing network infrastructure.”
Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer provides unique functionalities and mechanisms for the transcoding, transrating, caching and streaming of video over mobile networks. This technology is a core competency developed and patented by Vantrix over the last 5 years and has been implemented commercially in various mobile video deployments.
Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer is part of a suite of products offered to converged operators; key features include:
- Savings of between 30 – 70% of cost of delivering mobile video
- The ability to double the capacity of an existing network infrastructure
- Allows better Quality of Experience
- Addresses on deck and off deck content for mobile, tablets and laptops
“Vantrix patented technology enable us to reduce the cost and size of video, while retaining the best perceived quality,” continued Lopez. “This data tsunami is not going to go away- in fact it is growing daily and no network can contemplate such growth in a profitable manner without Vantrix Bandwidth Optimizer”
About Vantrix
Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, ensures the richest user experience and most cost-effective roll-out of premium services such as mobile and web TV, video on demand, MMS and user generated content. Vantrix customers include Sprint, Orange, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Telia-Sonera, MTS, Etisalat, Saudi Arabia Telecom, and Tata Telecom, reaching over 700 million subscribers worldwide. Vantrix is the recipient of several awards in 2009, including Frost & Sullivan's Mobile Content Optimization Solution of the Year, Network Product Guide's Best Convergence Product, and Visiongain's Mobile Content Award for Best Mobile TV and Video Service. Vantrix is headquartered in Montreal with offices in London, Hong Kong, and Dubai. To learn more about Vantrix, visit our website at www.vantrix.com
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Adding Vantrix Business Analyzer and Content Filtering solutions are key differentiators for leading global mobile operator
Montreal, Canada, USA - January 12, 2010 - Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, today announced that Telenor Norway, a provider of high-quality telecommunications, data and media communication services, has deployed the latest version of Vantrix Message Optimizer. The deployment was secured by Acision as part of Vantrix's participation in the Acision Innovation Network. The solution will enable Telenor to leverage the power of Business Analyzer and Content Filtering, which are value-added modules of Vantrix's industry leading Mediadvance platform.
By deploying the latest version of Message Optimizer, Telenor further differentiates itself in the market with the most robust, dynamic transcoding and optimization of multimedia elements to adapt MMS to the characteristics of the receiving devices, amongst a wide variety of content formats and wireless devices. With the addition of Vantrix Business Analyzer and Content Filtering, Telenor will gain deep insight into mobile subscriber behavior and messaging usage. In addition, thanks to Vantrix Media Controller, up to 99-percent of viruses are filtered from messages delivered into the network.
"Vantrix develops leading and best-in-class solutions for the delivery of mobile content across devices and geographies," said Guttorm Hansen, CTO, for Telenor Norway. "With the growth in demand for MMS both in our home market of Norway and beyond, Vantrix Message Optimizer was the ideal fit. It provides the highest delivery rates, reliability and seamless integration, and the end result is a better customer experience."
David Frail, Global Market Development Director, Acision added, "Telenor wanted to sustain and enhance the delivery of multimedia content to its global customer base and improve the customer experience. As part of the Acision Innovation Network, we were able to deploy Vantrix Mediadvance platform and Message Optimizer seamlessly into the Telenor network, while providing additional expertise and value added support."
"Operators everywhere are faced with the challenge of network interoperability while still needing to manage the optimization and safe delivery of a massive variety of multimedia and wireless device formats," said Robert Fillmore, SVP International Sales for Vantrix. "As one of the world's leading mobile operators, Telenor is at the forefront of introducing consumable content and services to its subscribers all while ensuring the protection of its own network. We are thrilled that Telenor is relying on Vantrix best-in-class solutions to meet the demands of its global subscriber base."
Vantrix contributes to the Acision Innovation Network by providing multimedia content optimization, management and streaming solutions, enabling operators to deliver and maintain advanced multimedia services with a cost-effective, high-quality user experience. The Acision Innovation Network is a collaborative ecosystem that enables communication companies to develop new services and applications and deliver these to operators. Vantrix joined the group after the certification of Mediadvance, the core software platform on which all Vantrix products and solutions are built. Mediadvance provides a single point for content management and monitoring, enabling users to capture, optimize and deliver content more efficiently than ever before while realizing considerable OPEX and CAPEX savings.
About Telenor
Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Telenor is an international provider of high-quality telecommunications, data and media communication services. Telenor is one of Norway's largest companies with revenues in 2008 of approx. NOK 111 billion (including Kyivstar) and a work force of more than 38,800 domestically and abroad. Telenor is listed at the Oslo Stock Exchange (TEL). For more information about the Telenor Group, please visit www.telenor.com.
About Acision
Acision is the world's leading messaging company, providing communication solutions for over 300 network operators and service providers globally. www.acision.com.
About Vantrix
Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, ensures the richest user experience and most cost-effective roll-out of premium services such as mobile and web TV, video on demand, MMS and user generated content. Vantrix customers include Sprint, Orange, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Telia-Sonera, MTS, Etisalat, Saudi Arabia Telecom, and Tata Telecom, reaching over 700 million subscribers worldwide.
Vantrix is the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2009 Mobile Content Optimization Solution of the Year Award, the Network Product Guide 2009 Best Convergence Product Award, TMC IPTV Excellence Award and the Visiongain Mobile Content Award. Vantrix is headquartered in Montreal with offices in London, Hong Kong, and Dubai.
To learn more about Vantrix visit our website at www.vantrix.com
Media Contacts:
Meghan Welborn
PAN Communications, for Vantrix
+1 978-474-1900
vantrix@pancomm.com
Christina Park
Vantrix
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Maria Hudson
Acision
+44 (0) 118 930 8826 / +44 (0)7894 604 040
maria.hudson@acision.com
Montreal, Canada, -December 8, 2009 - Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, announced today the launch of the latest version of Media Broadcaster, release 8.0, with the world's first Dynamic Bit Rate Adaptation (DBRA) for the Apple iPhone.
Vantrix Media Broadcaster is the leading end-to-end solution for delivering optimized video streams to any end device - mobile, Web (PC), or digital TV. The solution captures, ingests, encodes, adapts, and delivers any video content regardless of format, network, and device. The 8.0 version responds directly to the explosive growth of the iPhone and other smartphones: it is unique in the market in that it delivers the same rich multimedia content services such as mobile TV, video on demand, user-generated content, video share and many other services to the iPhone as it does to any other device.
Media Broadcaster ensures content adaptation and optimization from any source to any endpoint, including the iPhone. This means that operators do not require different solutions for different mobile devices with varying screen sizes and protocols; Media Broadcaster overcomes these obstacles related to device and network fragmentation. iPhone video delivery is now enhanced with Vantrix Media Broadcaster 8.0 thanks to its patented DBRA mechanism. DBRA allows the forcing of the bit rate at which the iPhone connects to a video feed, therefore providing the best user experience for the available network capacity and at the same time substantially reducing cost of video delivery.
Media Broadcaster helps operators cope with the exponential growth of video usage by adjusting video bit rates dynamically in real time, thereby delivering the best perceived user experience while using the minimum network bandwidth possible. The added benefit is operators do not need to purchase additional hardware specifically to support iPhone since Media Broadcaster is a one-stop solution offering all the adaptive streaming capabilities and services for any device, on any protocol, for any media format on any network.
"We are excited to bring this latest version of Media Broadcaster to market," said Patrick Lopez, Chief Marketing Officer, Vantrix. "The release of Media Broadcaster 8.0 illustrates the Vantrix competitive advantage in mobile video. We enable our customers to meet the overwhelming growth in video by providing the best user experience, in the most cost effective manner."
About Vantrix
Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, ensures the richest user experience and most cost-effective roll-out of premium services such as mobile and web TV, video on demand, MMS and user generated content. Vantrix customers include Sprint, Orange, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Telia-Sonera, MTS, Etisalat, Saudi Arabia Telecom, and Tata Telecom, reaching over 700 million subscribers worldwide.
Vantrix is the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2009 Mobile Content Optimization Solution of the Year Award, the Network Product Guide 2009 Best Convergence Product Award, TMC IPTV Excellence Award and the Visiongain Mobile Content Award. Vantrix is headquartered in Montreal with offices in London, Hong Kong, and Dubai.
To learn more about Vantrix visit our website at www.vantrix.com
Media Contacts:
Meghan Welborn or Randi Sussman
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The Canadian New Media Awards recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of individuals and companies in the Canadian digital media industry. In the 'Company of the Year' category, the CNMA recognizes ground breaking Canadian new media companies, both start-up or established that have taken digital media to the next level.
"Vantrix is proud to be recognized as a finalist for this year's "Company of the Year" Award said Patrick Lopez, CMO, Vantrix. "Vantrix has been growing at a rapid pace, bringing the best mobile video technology to more and more customers. This recognition underlines our success amongst Canadian companies. "
About Vantrix
Vantrix, the global leader of mobile video optimization and delivery solutions, ensures the richest user experience and most cost-effective roll-out of premium services such as mobile and web TV, video on demand, MMS and user generated content. Vantrix customers include Sprint, Orange, Telefonica, T-Mobile, Telia-Sonera, MTS, Etisalat, Saudi Arabia Telecom, and Tata Telecom, reaching over 700 million subscribers worldwide. Vantrix is the recipient of several awards in 2009, including Frost & Sullivan's Mobile Content Optimization Solution of the Year, Network Product Guide's Best Convergence Product, and Visiongain's Mobile Content Award for Best Mobile TV and Video Service. Vantrix is headquartered in Montreal with offices in London, Hong Kong, and Dubai.
To learn more about Vantrix visit our website at www.vantrix.com.
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Vantrix solution key differentiator as PlayPhone continues global market penetration
Montreal, Canada, US — October 6, 2009 — Vantrix, the leading provider of content adaptation and optimization solutions for converged wireless, broadband and cable networks, today announced that PlayPhone, the global leader in branded mobile entertainment, has extended its relationship with Vantrix with a new deployment of Vantrix Storefront Optimizer specifically to support PlayPhone’s expansion into the Asian mobile market.
PlayPhone has previously been working with Vantrix to support its North American content operations and under this expanded relationship the company will integrate the latest version of Storefront Optimizer to support its rapid growth into new global markets. Vantrix will be a key partner providing PlayPhone with the ability to deliver high-quality content in the Asian mobile marketplace.
With the increasing demand for premium, personalized content across all channels, Vantrix Storefront Optimizer helps operators and content aggregators meet subscriber demand while maximizing their global market reach. Vantrix Storefront Optimizer prepares and optimizes the rich multimedia content that is delivered to mobile devices via download and browsing, such as ringtones, wallpaper, mobisodes, music video, etc. Storefront Optimizer stores only the highest quality version of each content item and adapts the content for each device as it is downloaded. Storefront Optimizer also enables PlayPhone to reduce costs as well as delays associated with the management of duplicated versions of the same content and reduces the delay in the introduction of new content or devices.
“Our customers turn to PlayPhone for our fresh, exclusive content from major music labels, artists, game publishers and media companies,” said Ron Czerny, Founder and CEO of PlayPhone. “Vantrix Storefront Optimizer allows us to provide a high quality user experience with our content in a very cost effective manner.”
“PlayPhone’s rapid growth is indicative of its tremendous success and we are delighted that they have entrusted Vantrix to help them increase their global presence and further penetrate the Asian mobile market,” added Allan Benchetrit, President and CEO, Vantrix. “Our longstanding partnership and this new deployment is a testament to how Storefront Optimizer provides a top notch experience delivering mobile content to consumers.”
About PlayPhone, Inc.
PlayPhone (www.playphone.com) is a leading global mobile media company present in over 25 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America that provides cutting edge personalization and entertainment content to mobile consumers anytime, anywhere. PlayPhone founded the direct-to-consumer mobile media distribution standard in 2003 and continues to establish new means for delivering wireless entertainment. PlayPhone is based in San Jose, Calif. and is funded by top venture firms Menlo Ventures, Cardinal Venture Capital, Scale Venture Partners and Coral Capital Management.
About Vantrix
Vantrix delivers the best multimedia customer experience on any network. The company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions that delivers any multimedia content to any device, focusing on the best possible user experience to drive consumer adoption of premium services like MMS, mobile and web TV, user generated content and video on demand. Vantrix is the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2009 Mobile Content Optimization Solution of the Year Award, the Network Product Guide 2009 Best Convergence Product Award, TMC IPTV Excellence Award and the Visiongain Mobile Content Award. Vantrix is headquartered in Montreal with offices in London, Hong Kong, and Dubai.
To learn more about Vantrix visit our website at www.vantrix.com.
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PAN Communications
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Vantrix
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