P&TLuxembourg chooses ATEME IPTV HEADEND
Kyrion? Encoder selected by leading European IPTV operator
August 26, 2009 - Amsterdam
Amsterdam -IBC 2009, Booth 1. D70: ATEME has today announced that P&TLuxembourg, the leading postal and telecommunication provider in Luxembourg, is deploying ATEME's IPTV headend, which includes HD MPEG-4 AVC encoding.
This solution will enable P&TLuxembourg to launch HDTV linear broadcast television services in 2009.
"P&TLuxembourg is committed to producing exceptional programming and building the highest quality infrastructure to support delivery of content," said Jean-Marie Spaus, director of the telecom division at P&TLuxembourg. "ATEME's Video head end architecture with Kyrion HDTV H.264 encoders solution has met our stringent standards for quality and performance, enabling us to provide our viewers with a very compelling HD viewing experience."
Claude Stoffel , EMEA Sales Director for ATEME says: "We are honored to have been selected by P&TLuxembourg for the supply of HDTV high value service. ATEME's continuous investment in video quality compression systems and support for open video head end architecture allows P&TLuxembourg to offer their customers a best-in-class quality experience, as well as prepare for future channel line-up expansion."
The IPTV headend supplied to P&TLuxembourg includes Kyrion ? AM2101 market leading MPEG-4 AVC HD encoder, DR8100 Integrated Receiver Decoders and Skyline Communications DataMiner - Open Network Management System.
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About P&TLuxembourg
Founded in 1842, P&TLuxembourg is a public service company since 1992. With 2900 employees, the company operates postal, financial and telecommunications services and is the leading provider of postal and telecommunication services in Luxembourg. In telecommunications, P&TLuxembourg runs both fixed and mobile networks providing a full range of voice and data services including satellite uplinks. P&T's subsidiary LUXGSM (www.luxgsm.lu) is the leading mobile operator in Luxembourg. Recently P&T launched its IPTV service. P&TLuxembourg serves private customers as well as business clients including international banks, insurance companies and European institutions. P&T offers state-of-the-art technology as well as advanced and specially designed services to the business community. Its international network TERALINK connects global players both to and from Luxembourg (www.teralink.lu).. In 2008, P&TLuxembourg reached a total revenue of EUR 556.84 million. Additional information can be found at www.pt.lu
About ATEME
ATEME (www.ateme.com) is a world-leading provider of video compression solutions. ATEME?s renowned technology supports Mobile, SD and HD content, deployed across any platform. ATEME provides broadcasters, telcos and content owners with unmatched compression quality and bandwidth efficiency thanks to in-house H.264 expertise. With ATEME Kyrion? hardware and software products, customers benefits from latest technology in Contribution, Video Head End and Multi-Screen Transcoding applications for increasing revenue and lowering OPEX.
ATEME Because Content Deploys Everywhere.
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Skyline Communications (www.skyline.be) is the global leading supplier of multi-vendor network management solutions for the HFC broadband, satellite, IPTV and broadcast industry. Our flagship DataMiner network management platform, which received various prestigious awards, enables end-to-end integration of the most complex technical ecosystems and has been deployed by leading operators such as Arab States Broadcasting Union, Belgacom, Broadcast Australia, Czech Television, European Space Agency, Eutelsat, Gateway Communications, GlobeCast, M6, MTV, Orascom Telecom, Overon, Roshan, RTL-TVI, Broadcasting Center Europe, Stratos Global, Telenet , Telenor, TelstraClear, TVE, UPC, Virgin Media, VOO, Ziggo, etc. DataMiner is today already integrated with over 1500 devices and systems from more than 250 key industry suppliers, and offers a plethora of functionality including unlimited web access, alarming, e-mail and SMS notification, long-term trending, professional reporting, advanced automation, intelligent correlation and root cause analysis, service management, real-time SLA monitoring, user-definable key performance indicator dashboards, spectrum monitoring, mobile access, powerful CPE management, and much more.
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