Telecom Lead Middle East: Transcoding specialist ATEME
has bagged first deal for its TITAN carrier grade transcoding solution platform
in the Middle East.
The TITAN platform is being used in a deployment by
content aggregator Intigral for both IPTV and OTT services in Saudi Arabia.
The platform from ATEME has being selected by Intigral
because of its support for both file based and adaptive streaming video, and
ability to deliver video content at the highest possible quality to multiple
screens.
Earlier, Intigral deployed ATEME’s file transcoding
software for delivering VOD to STC’s IPTV customers in Saudi Arabia, but now
replaced it with TITAN to support OTT streaming as well.
The high performance and excellent support from ATEME
for the offline VOD transcoding made it clear that TITAN was the right choice
for expanding into OTT streaming,” said Tony Saab, general manager for IPTV
Operations and Technology at Intigral.
Intigral is a joint venture between Saudi Telecom Company
(STC) and All Asia Networks (ASTRO). The company is currently
aggregating content at its operations centre in Dubai and then distributing it
to STC over a 155 Mbps fiber link.
This service will include IPTV, VOD and OTT, so this will
be one of the first cases where all three delivery technologies are integrated
via a single transcoding platform.
Intigral plans to cover the wider Middle East region as a
content aggregator, as well as expanding in Saudi Arabia via OTT.
Intigral currently has 20 TITAN nodes and plans to
install more as the service expands. Presently, the platform serves 35,000 STC
IPTV customers, but Intigral aims to increase it to 70,000 by the end of 2012,
and 200,000 to 300,000 by 2015.
Telecom Argentina selects ATEME for Copa America
contribution feeds
In October last year, Telecom Argentina selected ATEME’s
Kyrion contribution solution to bring the Copa America soccer event held in
July in Argentina to viewers in America and Europe.
