IPTV World Forum Asia – curtains up: Part One

The third annual IPTV World Forum Asia will be held on 5-7 December 2007 in the Suntec Centre, Singapore.  It will focus on the region’s fast-growing IPTV markets, including the emerging giants of China and India, as well as capitalise on the recent flurry of activity in Singapore itself.

We are providing a two part preview of some of the companies and solutions that can be found around the show in order to provide readers with an insight into what can be expected at the event.

TANDBERG Television

TANDBERG Television is showing its iPlex Ultracompression HD and SD IPTV head-end video processing solution, which has already won 4 major industry awards since its launch in March this year - including the IPTV World Forum award for Best IPTV Head-end. The company is also demonstrating its market leading video compression, on-demand and end-to- end IPTV solutions that are enabling more than 180 IPTV operators around the world to create, manage and deliver innovative television services.

TANDBERG Television will be exhibiting at Stand #A46

Shenick

Shenick Network Systems www.shenick.com is an award winning provider of ‘per flow’ converged IP network testers and IPTV monitoring and service assurance systems. With over 100 service provider and major communications equipment manufacturer customers in 24 countries, Shenick is trusted to ensure that the highest quality IPTV, VoD, VoIP and data services are delivered to every customer, without compromise.  Shenick will be demonstrating its latest release of servicEye, its IPTV monitoring solution featuring both passive and active probe functionality.  In addition, Shenick will also be demonstrating its diversifEye series of per flow converged IP network test systems including the recently introduced diversifEye10G, a high performance 10G stateful/real multiplay emulation and performance analysis test system.

Shenick will be exhibiting at Stand #A61

Microsoft TV

Microsoft TV enables the future of television by helping broadband network operators deliver advanced digital TV services and new connected entertainment experiences. Microsoft TV will demonstrate Microsoft Mediaroom, its award-winning IPTV software platform. More than 20 of the world's leading telecommunications companies have begun or are planning to begin rolling out TV services based on the platform.

Microsoft TV will be exhibiting at Stand #A01

Widevine Cypher® for the PC

Widevine Cypher® for the PC is the first and only solution for securing multimedia content delivery across managed networks (telco, cable, satellite) and open Internet networks to PCs/PC-based devices.  It secures delivery, storage and consumption of streamed media, file downloads and progressive downloads and enables multimedia operators to license/acquire premium content delivered to retail available PCs/PC-based devices. Its Digital Copy Protection secures content post decryption—a requirement for video delivery to PCs.  To enable monetisation of newly emerging ad-based revenue models, the solution tracks the receipt, storage and consumption of ads and content.

Cypher for the PC supports all major formats including Adobe Flash Video, MPEG 2, H.264, VC-1, Windows Media, QuickTime, RealMedia—and device platforms including Windows PCs, Macs, Linux.

Widevine Technologies will be exhibiting at Stand #A17

Envivio

Envivio is debuting its Convergence Generation™ headend, featuring the 4Caster C4 and M2 encoders, which supports an all IP infrastructure for IPTV and mobile TV service providers.  The telco-grade C4, the world’s first multichannel IP video encoder with AVS, also simultaneously encodes in AVC / H.264, Windows Media and QuickTime formats for both IPTV and Internet TV.

Demonstrated Envivio convergence solutions support the “3 screens” of video --  TVs, PCs and mobile phones -- making IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device from mobile to HD.

Envivio will be exhibiting at Stand #A63

Viaccess

Viaccess, a France Telecom company, delivers solutions for digital pay television and secured content distribution.  Viaccess CA and DRM solutions can be deployed on satellite, cable, terrestrial, DSL, fiber, and mobile infrastructures.
 Viaccess wide experience of access control management is recognised for all types of pay TV (Pay Per View, interactive television, mobile…) as well as  (VoD) services.

Viaccess develops access and protection systems for:
- Mobile TV
- Digital Rights Management
- Digital TV
- IPTV: Viaccess proposes both smart card-based and cardless solutions.

Viaccess will be exhibiting at Stand #A38

Accedo Broadband

Accedo Broadband, the leading provider of interactive and long-tail on demand content, will showcase parts of their service portfolio at the show. Focus will be on Accedo’s portfolio of Funspot games, which are tailor made for good performance and user experience on IPTV STBs.  A specific focus will be on Accedo IPTV Multiplayer Gaming Engine, which is the first IPTV multiplayer solution on the market. Accedo’s gaming solution is fully customisable to any Asian language.

Accedo Broadband will be exhibiting at Stand #A36

DideoNET

DideoNET is a venture company specialising in the development of advanced multimedia software for tomorrow's world.  Since its establishment in 2001, the company introduced high-quality streaming service in the domestic market through development and implementation of innovative streaming technology, and it currently controls over 70% of the domestic Internet high-end multimedia market in South Korea.  It has several patents on its headend technology and streaming.  Its unique value addition to the headend streaming technology lies in its proprietary streaming protocol, unique audio/video Codec H.264-Mpeg 4-part 2 for HD resolution on TV delivery even on low bandwidth.

DideoNET will be exhibiting at Stand #A34

SecureMedia

SecureMedia will demonstrate its successful Encryptonite ONE System with leading partners servicing the Asian marketplace and beyond: BEE Mediasoft offering Vision TV, a next generation open framework middleware solution for TV service providers and GEK TV offering advanced IPTV and IP VOD capabilities to the US market with a heavyweight channel lineup including Asia’s largest TV channel, Television Broadcast Limited (TVB) as well as i-Cable News and i-Cable Entertainment News, Fashion TV-Asia, Setanta Sports Channel (USA) and Pearl River Channel (China).

Other SecureMedia partners attending IPTV Forum Asia include Harris Corporation and Tandberg Television (both Gold Sponsors).

SecureMedia will be exhibiting at Stand #A27

Acision

Message Plus is an award-winning, new messaging solution from messaging leader Acision. The solution is designed to enhance SMS with features like divert, copy, auto-reply and sponsored SMS messages, to drive mobile operators to segment their customer base and differentiate their messaging service beyond price. Acision will showcase Message Plus at the event and Mobile IM service integrated with SMS.

Acision will be exhibiting at Stand #B27

Digital Fountain

Digital Fountain’s ToughStream 2.0 ensures end-to-end quality of service for IPTV networks.  It claims to be the only solution that can be used with any existing IPTV deployment, regardless of streaming and packet format, without modifying the basic service.  Now, all IPTV deployments can leverage the most advanced and scalable solution to eliminate video artifacts, the number one cause of customer dissatisfaction.

Digital Fountain will be exhibiting at Stand #A41

C-COR

C-COR will showcase a live demonstration of its n5C Compact video server, which enables service providers serving smaller markets to economically launch on-demand applications. The n5C is part of C-COR’s Unified Video Delivery and Management platform that delivers VOD, SDV, nDVR services along with the linear/advanced advertising to monetise IPTV services.  C-COR has pioneered IPTV VOD deployments for more than 10 years.

C-COR will be exhibiting at Stand #A44

CCBN

CCBN is the only state-level exhibition of its kind in China and the largest broadcasting show in Asia.  It is the No.1 exhibition of DTV and broadband network in the whole world.  With 12 exhibition halls totaling 60,000 square meters, the event will feature more than 1,000 enterprises from over 30 countries and regions and nearly 70,000 professional visitors.

CCBN will be exhibiting at Stand #B62