SES, Cisco Take IPTV Rural.(SES Americom and Cisco Systems)
Multichannel News, February, 2007 by Spangler, Todd
By Todd Spangler Satellite-services provider SES Americom and Cisco Systems want to bring Internet Protocol television to America's hinterlands. The two companies are pairing up to offer rural telephone companies what they claim is a soup-to-nuts package of IPTV content, equipment and services.
The idea is to ease what has been the biggest pain for telcos trying to bake a TV service from scratch: getting everything to work together without a hitch. "At the end of the day, we're trying to deliver an end-to-end solution so our customers aren't focused on the piece parts," said SES Americom senior vice president of marketing and product management Jon Russo. The turnkey offering includes up to 290 linear channels provided via SES Americom's...
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