Telco Operators Telecommunications companies are expanding their businesses to include Digital TV. With the rapidly changing environment for the delivery of entertainment, Digital TV is becoming increasingly deployed on a number of different delivery systems and platforms including personal computers, telecommunication and mobile networks. Today consumers personalize their content viewing experience with personal video recorders (PVR) or digital video recorders (DVR). Consumers want to interact with their content and move it between multiple devices. Bridging multiple platforms and unique networks while maintaining a quality user experience and the owner’s content rights is no small task. Vidiom Systems has been involved with the development of Digital TV standards, platforms and has experience deploying and integrating delivery systems and platforms including PC, telecommunications and mobile devices. Vidiom’s experience with these various platforms makes us the logical choice to provide solutions and services including integration, deployment and testing to the telecommunications industry. TFN Success Story An important part of Vidiom’s relationship with Telco Operators is in the company’s ongoing role as a prime integrator for integration and deployment of digital broadcast systems whether on cable or over IP networks. Vidiom works with the operator to select the best providers of technology solutions to meet their requirements for content ingestion, system management and network distribution. TFN Media is the fourth largest MSO in Taiwan, providing cable services to approximately 540,000 homes in northern and southern Taiwan. The company plans to digitalize its entire network during the next three years’ time. The trial launch is testing the market on interactive services, HD content, and user’s interface after which the commercial launch will be initiated. According to TFN Media’s plan, full digitalization is expected to be completed by 2011. TFN Media contracted with ADB for the delivery of an end-to-end solution for TFN Media’s deployment of advanced interactive digital cable services starting in early 2009. The scope of the contract included full system specification and provisioning, interactive application software development, MHP middleware, digital set-top boxes and system integration. ADB Group acted as the system integrator and provided all the related products and services to TFN Media. All ADB Group companies are jointly contributed to the project. “ADB provides us with a complete end-to-end solution needed by a digital cable operator. All system’s elements including the equipment, its software and conditional access subsystem are put together in an efficient and cost effective way. Practically, ADB Group secures our future and lets us focus on our core business”, commented James Jeng, COO, Household Business Group of Taiwanmobile Group and President of TFN Media. He continued, “ADB’s track record of success in digital TV industry worldwide, unprecedented local support, and vote of confidence it demonstrates with regard to Taiwan’s digital TV market, all contributed to our partnership. We chose ADB because they will help us realize our ultimate goal of generating new revenue streams by introducing the most advanced and customer focused digital technologies.” TFN was transitioning from analog to digital delivery of content. To manage the implementation of this project, Vidiom and ADB provided a headend management solution, and worked with Harmonic and Irdeto to provide the additional necessary systems hardware to create an end-to-end solution for the company. TFN accepted ADB’s proposal of using the award-winning ADB-5810 family of HD/DOCSIS set-top
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