--Also Signs Content Agreement with Scripps Networks
Broadstream Communications--a company that specializes in providing outsourced video headend and content distribution and management services to telcos looking to deploy IPTV (note: it touts its outsourced IPTV solutions as allowing smaller operators to offer sophisticated IPTV services without the huge upfront capital and operational expenses associated with a self-built and maintained IPTV headend system)--says that Alaska-based broadband service provider, Converged Communications, has chosen its MPEG-4 IP headend, transport and middleware services to support the launch of an IPTV service over its ADSL2+ and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network in Anchorage. Under the terms of the companies' multi-year agreement, Broadstream will provide Converged Communications with over 200 channels of content through its IPTVConnect IP video distribution platform; its Bstream Middleware content management platform, meanwhile, will allow Converged to offer interactive services such as VOD, PVR, and Internet-on-TV.
In other Broadstream news: the company has signed an agreement with Scripps Networks that will allow it to offer the latter's HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living and Great American Country channels on IPTVConnect. Earlier this month, Broadstream announced that it had signed content agreements with the Hallmark Channel, the Hallmark Movie Channel, OLN, the Tennis Channel, Bloomberg Television and the Golf Channel.
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