du selects TANDBERG iPlex headend for expansion of IPTV service

March 5, 2008 – TANDBERG Television has announced that its iPlex UltraCompression IPTV video processing and transcoding system has been selected by Dubai-based telco du to expand its IPTV service

The TANDBERG iPlex includes MPEG-2 standard-definition encoding, MPEG-4 AVC high-definition and standard-definition encoding, MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 transcoding, MPEG-2 transrating and picture-in-picture generation.

“We are deploying TANDBERG Television’s best-in-class technology to enable the expansion of du’s IPTV service and continuously improve its quality, while still maintaining flexibility and efficiency,” said Osman Sultan, CEO of du.  “We are pleased to be able to draw upon TANDBERG Television’s deep understanding of IPTV, as well as its advanced solutions.  This will enable us to optimise bandwidth requirements for delivering television over our Ethernet-to-the-home network, whilst still maintaining the high picture quality that our customers demand.”

du’s IPTV service offers over 15 Premium TV packages, in 18 languages from content aggregators and providers worldwide, and has already passed 1.5mn subscribers.