IPlay3™ receives the Frost & Sullivan Product of the Year Award

January 27, 2005 - Paris

The IPlay3™ solution has received, through NetCentrex, the prestigious Frost & Sullivan VoIP Equipment and Network Infrastructure Product of the Year Award for 2005. The award recognizes IPlay3™’s unique and innovative integrated residential triple play architecture.
IPlay3 is a consortium established to deliver a “best of breed” residential triple play solution. The consortium comprises of Highdeal, the leading provider of pricing, high performance rating and settlement solutions for emerging 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.
With the goal of providing a complete, integrated, flexible and cost-effective triple play solution, the IPlay3 solution merges these advanced VoIP, IP-TV, IP-VOD and BSS/OSS technologies to allow service providers to offer value-added voice and video services on top of a high-speed Internet offering. It allows telcos to offer video, cable operators to add voice to their video and data offerings, and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments to seamlessly integrate their voice, video, rating and billing IP services under a single platform.

“We are delighted and honored to be chosen for the Frost & Sullivan Product of the Year 2005 Award,” said Alain Fernando-Santana, NetCentrex Inc. Chief Executive Officer . “This award is a testament to our market leading strategy to enable service providers to deliver triple play services efficiently.”

“Frost & Sullivan’s recognition of Iplay3 is a great accolade for us and clearly demonstrates how significant the technology is. The award not only recognises the increasing demand for a residential triple play solution but also the unique nature of Iplay3. The consortium continues to grow from strength to strength and we look forward to continuing our relationship with NetCentrex and Envivio in 2005.” says Eric Pillevesse, Highdeal CEO.

• About Envivio Inc

  Envivio is a leading provider of complete MPEG-4 solutions for broadcasters, enterprises and service providers. The company has established itself as the most experienced creator of high-quality MPEG-4 solutions that enable customers to build new revenue streams and use the efficiencies of delivering content to the full range of MPEG-4 capable devices. The Envivio solution includes various components to create, encode, protect, and distribute MPEG-4 content.

• About Highdeal

  Highdeal is the world's leading provider of service Pricing & Rating solutions. We provide the necessary agility to ensure the profitability of fast-evolving business models with both customers and partners. Highdeal Transactive^® is a modular software solution that monetizes business transactions in real-time. Companies rely on Highdeal to solve their billing problems in service industries such as telecommunications, media and entertainment, technology, transportation and logistics, and financial services. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com.