--Company Says It Is Benefiting from Operators' Interest in Merging Pay-TV with OTT Services
IPTV middleware and applications provider, Minerva Networks, said Monday that recent wins--including Craw-Kan Telephone Cooperative and Swiftel Communications in North America, ICE in Costa Rica, PCCTV in Cambodia, and Palm Hills Development in the Middle East--have increased the total number of its IPTV deployments worldwide to over 200.
According to the company, it is benefiting from--among other things--a trend that sees operators increasingly interested in IPTV platforms' ability to enable the integration of legacy pay-TV with emerging OTT services. The company claims that it provides operators with a proven, open and extensible middleware platform that lets them launch next-generation TV services quickly, while minimizing infrastructure and operating costs. The company bills the platform--dubbed the Minerva iTVManager--as a comprehensive software platform for the delivery and management of a broad set of television services, including HDTV, set-top box- and network-based PVR, whole-home PVR, restart-TV, pause-live TV, VOD, music, and interactive TV widgets, games and communications applications. "We needed a platform that would allow us to offer advanced television services to our existing customers and to attract new subscribers," Craw-Kan general manager, Craig Wilbert, said in a prepared statement. "After thorough evaluation, we concluded that Minerva's iTVManager provided all the key features we were looking for, along with a compelling roadmap that will allow us to attract customers from our competitors."
