IPTV World Forum Asia – curtains up: Part Two

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 an insight into what can be expected at this year's event.

Cisco

Cisco will be showcasing its end-to-end IP Video solution at the forthcoming IPTV World Forum Asia, in Singapore.  Bringing together the solutions and products from Scientific Atlanta and Linksys, Cisco is able to show the entire set-up of the network from the headend (Video Head Office) right up to the home of the consumer (Connected Home).  Some of the exhibits on display are shown for the first time in the region like the Visual Quality Experience (VQE), a client-server architecture that brings better video quality to the homes, enhancing the consumer video experience.  The entire booth will be set up with live demonstrations of the different components in a video-ready network.  There will also be IP Video experts onsite to answer any queries for any service providers that are exploring or deploying IPTV.

Cisco will be exhibiting at Stand #A58

Harris

Harris puts the "TV" in IPTV with solutions for headend video processing and media management, test and monitoring, graphics/branding, and advanced advertising, personalised and local content, as well as FLO, DVB-H and T-DMB transmission systems. Deployed in IPTV headends, Harris solutions improve workflows, save money, enable new revenue streams and provide migration paths to emerging media business models. Harris IPTV-enabling solutions on display at the IPTV World Forum include the NetVX™ video networking system and mCAPTURE™ compressed media stream recorder.

Harris will be exhibiting at Stand #A42

NDS

NDS secures and enables content anytime, anywhere, on any device.
NDS supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to digital pay-television platform operations and content providers.  NDS solutions are in use in over 78.6 million digital boxes across 35 countries, broadcasting in 15 languages and securing service revenues of $32 billion.

Paul Jackson, Chief Engineer, Asia Pacific, will be speaking at the IPTV World Forum Asia (14:00, 5 December) and Mobile TV Asia Summit (16:10, 5 December), both at Suntec Exhibition Centre, Singapore, about content protection on IPTV and mobile respectively.

Red Bee Media

Red Bee Media brings together the editorial, creative and technical skills needed to launch new video services and make sure they are watched. With their Digital Hive, the company can cost-effectively repurpose content for new platforms using tapeless technology. This includes everything from digitising and transcoding to adding branding and intelligent video on demand metadata. Most importantly, Red Bee Media understands audiences and has been working with them for over 40 years. With this experience the company creates branding, promotions and user-interfaces that make sure a service is what consumers want.

Lucy Amortegui, Head of Digital Media, will be speaking at the IPTV World Forum Asia on 7 December (14.40) on “Transforming a telco into a media company”

Harmonic

Harmonic is leading the way in supporting operators' transition to more advanced services including on-demand, HD, Internet video and targeted ad insertion, and will highlight innovative, market-leading solutions for IP-based video delivery at the IPTV World Forum Asia 2007. Featured demonstrations will include compressed video streams at various bit-rates:

• HD MPEG-4 AVC (H.264): DiviCom® Electra™ 7000 multi-service encoder
• SD H.264: Electra 5400 encoder and the cost-effective DiviCom Ion™ AVC SD multi-channel encoder

Also on display will be the ProStream™ 8000 digital mosaic solution for enhanced navigation, an ad insertion solution and Rhozet™ Carbon Coder™ universal transcoding. For on-demand video delivery, Harmonic offers the MediaPrism™ content preparation sofware, Armada® intelligent asset manager and StreamLiner® video servers.

And, come and see SingTel’s mio TV IPTV service, powered by Harmonic's encoders, at the Microsoft TV booth.

Harmonic will be exhibiting at Stand #A28

ADB

ADB provides a diverse range of products to the worldwide digital television industry. They supply digital set-top boxes across all television transmission platforms including cable, IPTV, satellite and terrestrial. With over 9 million digital set-top boxes sold worldwide, ADB’s experience and proven ability to develop and deliver products ahead of the competition have confirmed the company as one of the most advanced and trustworthy partners of choice for new technology.

ADB has a meeting room at the event, please contact Lei Shiah at L.Shiah@adbglobal.com for more details

Verimatrix

Verimatrix sets the standard for software-based content security and revenue enhancement technologies in pay-TV networks. The Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) has been independently audited and ranked as the global leader in IPTV content protection.  VCAS was designed for two-way and hybrid networks to protect content and enhance revenue streams, while combating digital piracy wherever it occurs within the distribution chain.

Verimatrix’s specific focus for the show will be:
- VCAS for IPTV and VCAS for Cable IPTV – IP delivery over multiple networks types offers pay-TV operators a rapid response to accelerating demands for HD and on-demand services, while dramatically reducing the cost of advanced set-top box (STB) deployment.

- Multi screen content security - Building on its software-based content security foundation for PC and STB clients, Verimatrix is offering an extension of its architecture to address the new frontiers of mobile TV.

Verimatrix will be exhibiting at Stand #A32

DS2

DS2 is the leading technology innovator and a global provider of high-speed semiconductor solutions for Powerline Communications and other wire-line network communications products.  In Singapore DS2 will be demonstrating how easy it is to set up a Powerline network that delivers HD viewing quality: configuration is automatic, it is secure, it delivers whole home connectivity and it supports multimedia networking applications delivering prime time viewing quality for IPTV services throughout the home. Leading operators including British Telecom, and Telefonica already use DS2 based powerline products to deliver a self install IPTV service. Enabling this hidden multimedia network everywhere is the purpose of DS2.

DS2 will be exhibiting at Stand #A49

Digisoft TV

Founded in 2000, DigiSoft.tv is a leading global provider of carrier class solutions to IPTV operators. Leveraging years of experience in the Broadcast market, DigiSoft delivers solutions from head-end to STB that allow operators to; develop, test, manage and deploy next generation interactive television services. Digisoft’s scalable solutions reduce the CAPEX required to launch differentiating IPTV services and increase ARPU.
 
DigiSoft.tv is a privately held company with headquarters in Ireland and offices in USA, Holland, Singapore and New Zealand. The company is backed by leading venture capital firms and strategic investors.

Digisoft TV will be exhibiting at Stand #A18

Subex Azure

Subex Azure, a leading provider of Operations Support System (OSS) solutions, will showcase Syndesis IPTV Express, the industry’s only production-proven fulfillment solution that manages both IPTV service connectivity and content. With IPTV Express, service providers can achieve faster, more efficient IPTV fulfillment, shorter time-to-market for new IPTV services, end-to-end network control and simple integration with existing systems. 

Subex Azure will be exhibiting at Stand #A19

ruwido

ruwido’s new product voco media stands for the integration of technology in an ambient way, enabling easy to use solutions for individualisation, security and communication. The synchronisation of remote control and graphical interface provides fingerprint authorisation for access to personal media libraries, communities, user security and child safety in an intuitive way.

ruwido will be exhibiting at Stand #A02.

CIMA Technology

CIMA will demonstrate their new Elegance Product Series incorporating the Broadcom 7403 Chipset.  All products are built on the same chipset delivering high performance and play any codec.  The line is built out of the EC (Economic) pure IP, GL for IP/PVR solutions and the XL that includes Single or Dual Tuner DVB-T.  The XL can also be delivered as a PVR box.  CIMA products are delivered including all licenses and the CIMA Browser environment, based on Opera and a JAVA Scripting API.  New software features for Q1 2008 will be a P2P client, Wi-Fi software and Video Conferencing.

CIMA will be exhibiting at Stand #A47

End2End

End2End's extensive Connectivity & Messaging offering is based on their high performance messaging platform and partnerships with leading edge companies in the wireless industry. DS2 has several international SS7 links and direct SMSC connections to mobile network operators in key regions, as well as an operator license in Denmark. This provides the company with access to over 500 mobile operators across 190 countries for the processing of outbound and inbound SMS messages, as well as managing their own international mobile number ranges.

End2End will be exhibiting at Stand #B26