Nortel and Broadstream Team Up to Provide IPTV Content to Rural Providers

August 9, 2006 - Nortel is teaming up with Broadstream Communications, an IPTV content transport and management services provider, to supply an end-to-end IPTV solution that includes both video infrastructure and television programming.

The addition of Broadstream to Nortel's IPTV ecosystem brings over 200 channels of IPTV-ready video content that can be transmitted directly to any service provider location in the United States. Nortel's IPTV solution enables service providers to deliver a video service over an IP infrastructure.

"As rural telcos look to offer their customers new IPTV services, a significant hurdle they face is access to a complete media and entertainment content bundle that can effectively compete with today's existing cable and satellite services," said Walt Megura, general manager, Broadband Networks Solutions, Nortel. "By teaming up with Broadstream to leverage their expertise in managed content services, Nortel can offer rural telcos a turnkey IPTV solution that helps enable more rapid and cost-effective introduction of these new revenue-generating services."

"By eliminating the telco's need to build out its own video head-end to consolidate and convert media content into an IPTV-ready state, Broadstream can help telcos of any size significantly reduce the high cost of providing a new IPTV service," said Pete Bryant, vice president business development, Broadstream. "Our work with Nortel provides telcos with a complete end-to-end path for IPTV content from the media source down to the set-top box."