SES AMERICOM Selects Siemens’ IPTV Middleware for IP-PRIME

SES AMERICOM has announced it will integrate a middleware system powered by Myrio, a Siemens company, into its open IP-PRIME IPTV content distribution platform. The deal follows several months of joint testing and pre-integration work on the IP television solution.

Siemens is the first middleware to be selected as part of SES AMERICOM's turnkey IPTV offering, which enables telcos and other broadband carriers to deliver broadcast-quality television programming to consumers through a variety of set-top boxes.

"Siemens is the first of several middleware options we have selected to offer as part of the complete, turnkey IP-PRIME IPTV distribution solution," said Alan Young, CTO at SES AMERICOM.

The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), which serves rural and independent telephone companies in a market of more than 10 million homes, currently is testing IP-PRIME in several communities. Initial trial success has NRTC executives and members citing IP-PRIME for its one-stop-shop IPTV distribution solution that enables small telephone companies to bypass barriers to entry.

Siemens middleware joins an impressive list of technology partners aboard the IP-PRIME platform, including NDS, selected to provide end-to-end IPTV content protection and conditional access. Scientific-Atlanta is providing the MPEG-4 encoding system and its ROSA network management system. Globecomm is providing the overall design and integration services as well as the major components for SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME IPTV broadcast distribution center in Vernon Valley, N.J., where content is aggregated and processed for delivery to telephone company video hubs and direct to consumer set-top boxes.

IP-PRIME's solution is scheduled for commercial launch later this year, with hundreds of standard and HD television channels available for telco subscribers across the U.S. IP-PRIME's headend solution has been delivering content to support BellSouth's IPTV trial since November 2005.

Myrio Corp. www.myrio.com
SES AMERICOM www.geamericom.com

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