IPlay3 Consortium
Offers Triple Play Solution
Integrated Solution
Showcased at Spring VON 2004 in Santa Clara, CA
Santa
Clara, March 29, 2004 – Highdeal,
the leading provider of pricing, high performance rating
and settlement solutions for emerging online and mobile services, NetCentrex ™, the
leading enabler of converged voice-video-data networks and
next-generation services, and Envivio, the
leading provider of MPEG-4 and H.264 broadcast and streaming
solutions, announced today the formation of the IPlay3 consortium.
The consortium delivers a ‘best of breed” residential triple
play solution to the Americas market.
“At a time
when the market is only offering a ‘1+1+1' triple play solution
often provided over distinct infrastructures, we are now
bringing to the market a fully integrated triple play solution” said
Alain Fernando-Santana, CEO at NetCentrex Inc.
With the goal
to provide a complete, integrated, flexible and cost-effective
Triple Play solution , IPlay3
merges the market-leading VoIP, IP-TV, IP-VOD and pricing technologies
from NetCentrex, Envivio and Highdeal. The IPlay3 solution
will bring new opportunities to service providers as they move
to offer value-added voice and video services on top of a high-speed
Internet offering.
“IPlay3 will allow service providers
to realize new revenue streams and greater customer loyalty
through migration to sophisticated IP services,“ emphasized
Alain Fernando-Santana.
With the advantage of one stop shopping
and an integrated full solution, service providers can quickly
and easily implement voice, video and data IP-based services
for their residential customers. As part of its integrated products
strategy IPlay3 also delivers a service creation platform to
Service Providers.
“Services providers can now use a single
transport infrastructure to carry voice, video and data to
their subscribers,” said Julien Signes, President and
CTO of Envivio. “Through advanced H.264 video compression,
HDTV and Video on Demand are delivered to subscribers through
the IP network, enabling the service provider to better leverage
the bandwidth delivered to the home.”
Subscribers will benefit from a user friendly,
user Access Portal to interactive services and self-care, self-provisioning
features. With the Service Provider delivering all services over
a single network infrastructure, the Subscriber will receive
all multi-media IP wants and needs from a single source with
a single bill.
“Triple-Play
integrated pricing, rating and settlement provides a powerful
platform for service provider to create compelling offers,
analyze profitability and negotiate favorable third party contracts,” said
Camilla Dahlen, President of Highdeal, Inc.“ Through the
IP delivery to the home, the subscriber has greater control
of the services they desire and visibility to the charges as
they are incurred.”
“Moreover, the
IPlay3 architecture anticipates future interactive voice-video
applications that will be required by gaming, security, telemedicine,
telework, e-learning, and a myriad of other applications,” added
Fernando-Santana.
Components of
the IPlay3 solution include:
• IP
Telephony: a standards-based (SIP/MGCP/H.323) carrier-grade,
scalable platform delivering complete Class 5 and innovative
voice-video interactive features
• IP Video: Both Live TV and
Video-on-Demand in a complete, high-performance video platform
based on the leading-edge Main Profile H.264 standard and an
integrated client portal based on MPEG-4 systems. Video One-to-One
calling using the H.263 standard on a video phone
• Transaction Management:
a flexible, triple play enabled, multi-tier platform including
pricing, rating, billing, settlement, and profit simulation
and analysis
• Subscriber Services: a portal
framework enabling user access to delivered services
The IPlay3 solution can be seen demonstrated
at Spring VON 2004 in Santa Clara at the NetCentrex booth # 307.
About
NetCentrex
NetCentrex™ delivers
next-generation networking solutions and network-based applications
for Voice-over- IP (VoIP), PSTN and Mobile networks. The solutions
enable service providers to build converged networks and to
offer network-based multi-media services for the residential
and enterprise markets. Solutions include multi-protocol residential
IP applications, a media server platform, an application development
and execution platform, and applications VoIP VPNs and IP Centrex
services. With NetCentrex, service providers can build next-generation
networks and drive network demand through innovative new services .
With individual deployments that exceed 500,000 subscribers,
NetCentrex is a true carrier-class VoIP solution. Please visit www.netcentrex.net.
About Envivio
Envivio is a leading
provider of complete MPEG-4 and H.264 solutions, including the
world's first full resolution, real-time MPEG-4 encoding system.
Envivio has established itself as the most experienced creator
of high-quality MPEG-4 and H.264 solutions that enable broadcasters,
network operators, and content developers to build new revenue
streams and to deliver a residential advanced digital television
service to MPEG-4 capable PCs and set-top boxes.Please visit www.envivio.com.
About Highdeal
Highdeal is the leading provider of
innovative pricing, high-performance rating and settlement solutions
for emerging on-line and mobile applications and services. Highdeal
enables companies offering these services to create and implement
successful pricing strategies in dynamic market environments. With
over 70 implementations in more than 15 countries, companies around
the world rely on Highdeal for their pricing and rating needs.
Please visit www.highdeal.com.
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