Meredith Flynn-Ripley, CEO, Integra5
Over the past few months, Integra5, a Burlington,
Massachusetts-based company that specializes in technologies for
converged services, has formed partnerships with IPTV technology
providers, Minerva Networks and SeaChange International, has
signed an international reseller agreement with Panama-based
Solusoft, and has been awarded a US patent for technology that
enables call management via television. On Tuesday, the
company--whose customers include Knology and WOW!--announced that
it had secured a deployment of its flagship i5 Converged Services
Platform with municipally owned telco, Bristol Virginia Utilities,
which will initially use the platform to power a TV-based caller
ID service. Integra5 CEO, Meredith Flynn-Ripley, recently spoke
to [itvt]'s Tracy Swedlow about the company's technology and how
it is being used by its tier-one and tier-two customers; about
new converged services--including SMS couponing and
text-to-TV--that it is enabling in addition to TV-based caller
ID; about the technology's suitability for powering
social-networking services on TV; about the company's patent
strategy; about why she believes both television and communications
services are "becoming independent of devices"; and much more.
[itvt]: You're a female CEO in a field where women have traditionally
been underrepresented. How did you end up working at the intersection
of telecommunications and interactive TV?
Flynn-Ripley: I really don't think about the gender issue at all. I've just
always been interested in bringing new technology into the hands of
consumers--ever since the early days of the Web and interactive
communications. In fact, even before then--back in the days of video
text and the early ASCII online services, like CompuServe and
Prodigy. My passion has always been to get in on the early stages of
technology and to shape how it gets delivered to end-users. That got me
into the cable broadband arena, and then more broadly into the telecom
arena.
[itvt]: And what is it that interests you so much about the intersection
of television and communications?
Flynn-Ripley: There's a fundamental change taking place in technology
and consumer behavior, both in the television sphere and the
communications sphere: Services are becoming independent of devices.
Television, of course, is an environment that's been ripe for innovation
for some time now. But, unfortunately, for many years the technology
wasn't available to support the kinds of innovations that people were
envisioning. I was very involved in the early days of the US WEST
interactive television trials in Omaha--I remember realizing at a certain
point that the 3DO set-top box simply wasn't going to be capable of
supporting the types of services that people were expecting it to
support.
That's when I hopped over to the broadband, high-speed data side of
the high-tech industry. But in recent years, it's been really exciting to
get back into working on services delivered to the television
set--because the technology is now here, and the kind of interactions
that people have for a long time been thinking about doing in the
television environment are now technically possible at a very
economical price point. So interactive TV really can now be delivered
to the masses.
And it's not just a matter of the technology now being ready for
interactive television. It also has to do with consumers themselves now
being ready. When I think back to the kinds of interactive TV that I was
involved in, in the 80's and 90's, the big difference today is that
consumer behavior has changed. Consumers are now engaged in many
different types of interactions and communications that weren't
envisioned before, and that lend themselves to being delivered via the
television. Texting, for example, didn't exist back then, so obviously no
one would have thought of bringing texting to a television
environment. And, of course, online services were either non-existent
or very primitive and not widely used.
So this space has become very exciting, because the technology's
finally here and the consumers are finally here. And interestingly, I no
longer hear people repeating that old piece of received wisdom that
viewers don't want to interact with their television set and just want to
passively watch. There are no more "massive passives"--that's a term I
first heard the other day from an IBM fellow at a conference I was
attending. I really think that that particular era of television is over. It's
a new era, where people are eager to communicate and interact and
access content on-demand on whatever device they happen to have
available to them. For example, I recently came across a survey that
found that there's been a doubling of the consumption of long-form TV
programming on the PC. While the most-watched content on the PC,
up until recently, was just short news clips, people are now turning to
the PC for long-form video. And the television set, obviously, is a very
important component of this emergence of media and communications
convergence, even though I think to some extent people have forgotten
about it because they've been so focused on the PC and the mobile
phone. You really need to look holistically at all the devices in the
home: The TV in the living room is definitely not going to be going
away.
[itvt]: You mentioned earlier that part of what's driving all this
convergence is that consumers themselves are now ready for these
services. Do you have any specific evidence that consumers are eager
for communications services delivered over the TV?
Flynn-Ripley: Absolutely. IDC recently published a survey that they
publish every year--it charts people's interest in services that they'd be
willing to pay for if the price was right. The number-one service was
DVR; the number-two service was TV caller-ID; the number-three was
TV-based home security; and the number-four was TV-based active
call control--i.e. the ability to forward a call to voicemail or to another
number. So clearly people are interested in the television being used to
change and enhance communications. And it's not just this IDC survey:
we've done a couple of surveys ourselves recently with our customers
that definitely show that people want to use their television sets for
communications.
As you know, there's a lot of discussion today around video
consumption behavior and the fact that video is now being consumed
on the TV, the PC and the mobile phone. The same kinds of behavior
changes hold true of communications. People are very used to scrolling
down a call log and clicking to call: the fact that, until recently, they've
been limited to doing that on the mobile phone has simply been due to
the limitations of the technology platforms, not to a lack of interest on
the part of consumers in seeing those types of services available on the
television set or the PC.
One of the surveys we recently fielded generated responses from more
than 3,500 subscribers of Comporium, a South Carolina-based service
provider. It was a pretty unique survey, because it was polling a group
of people who are already getting interactive, convergent
communication services on their television sets--some who've gotten
those services for more than three years. Uniformly, they love their
TV-based caller ID. In fact, TV caller ID subscribers were 30% more
likely than non-subscribers to rate Comporium as "great," and a quarter
of them said TV caller ID is a "main reason" they stay with that
provider. More importantly, they're very interested in getting many
more types of interactive communication services on their television
sets. Let me pull up some of the numbers for you: 70% of them actually
prefer the TV as the primary device for receiving converged services;
around 41% would like to receive those services both on the TV and
the PC; 80% are interested in click-to-call--which is the ability to scroll
through call logs or an address book on your TV or your PC and then to
start a phone call via a click of your remote control or your mouse;
77% want TV- and PC-based voicemail--which shows you how many
messages you have and provides you with a voicemail log that you can
click on to play back those messages; and 81% want personalized
convergent communications--so the ability to add pictures and photos
to their communications, which is sort of another dimension of
ringtones. We conducted a similar survey last year with one of our
triple-play customers, Hargray Communications, where converged
services subscribers said they would pay a dollar or more each month
per incremental converged service.
Of course, it's true that people do have a great desire to be passively
entertained--and that's obviously an argument that's been used against
interactive TV in the past. But the desire to communicate is even more
primal, and naturally people want to be able to do that on the TV.
[itvt]: One kind of service that would seem to be a natural development
from the convergence between television and telecommunications is
videoconferencing. Do you see video telephony becoming more
popular?
Flynn-Ripley: I certainly think that video and telecommunications are
going to converge. But this convergence may not manifest itself
primarily as video phone calls. Instead, it might be something that
develops from what we're starting to see today with MMS--the ability
to send photos or video snippets to the TV, and to enable groups of
users to view that content. In other words, video-oriented social
networking services, where you'd open yourself up to a group of
friends, and then share video on a real-time or a delayed basis. So
services that would include video overlaid with IM and text-messaging,
where people could view user-generated content, or a TV program, or a
sporting event, and talk about it at the same time. I definitely think
there's going to be more and more blending between programming and
communications going forward.
[itvt]: Could you explain what Integra's flagship product, the i5
Converged Services Platform, is?
Flynn-Ripley: It's a network-based software platform that sits up in the
service-provider's infrastructure. It taps into the wireline and wireless
voice, video, and data networks and grabs all the real-time
communications and content protocols from each of those
networks--which, while they may all be IP-based, are usually
converged only in the sense that the consumer receives a single bill for
the various services they deliver. Our platform ties these networks--the
signals on these networks--together, and delivers consumer- and
small-business-facing mash-up applications. We're geared towards
ingesting all of these real-time protocols--be they from a telephony
switch, from a voicemail server, from an IM server, from an SMSC,
from an RSS news feed, or wherever. Our platform can handle all these
various IP and communications protocols--SIP, MGCP, SS7, SMPP,
XMPP, etc.--and blends them in a very low latency environment to
deliver various applications to multiple devices: not just the TV, but
also the PC and mobile phone. So far, using this technology to deliver
telephony-related services to the TV has been a sweet spot for us here
in the US, with our services like TV-based caller ID and voicemail
logs. Text messaging seems to be bigger outside of North America--in
South Africa, Asia and Europe, for example.
Fundamentally, then, our platform is all about bringing these real-time
signals in, and then using them to deliver applications that have very
low latency requirements to multiple devices. It's a very robust
platform, and TV-based caller ID is really just the tip of the iceberg, in
terms of the types of services that it can deliver, both now and in the
future. I think--unfortunately or fortunately--TV-based caller ID has
become synonymous with converged services: people haven't really
been thinking about the next step. However, once operators have caller
ID deployed to their customer base, and they see how powerful it is,
and see the results of these surveys--where customers are saying that
70, 80, or 90% of them want these services and there's a willingness to
pay--then I think you're going to see exponential growth in new
converged services coming out.
TV-based caller ID is basically a toe in the water. It's the first baby step
to get the service providers comfortable with the concept of converged
services. I think these services are going to explode in '08 and '09, as
they become more widely deployed by the tier-one operators.
[itvt]: You're currently working with both cable operators and telcos.
What are the differences between working with those two groups of
customers?
Flynn-Ripley: The big difference in our customers isn't between the
telcos and the cable operators. It's between the tier-ones and the tier-
twos. Working with tier-twos--whether they be tier-two cable operators
or telcos--is generally a lot faster than working with the tier-ones.
They're usually not the largest players in their markets, and therefore
tend to be operating in a very competitive environment: so they need to
get creative and differentiate themselves very quickly, and working
with them is therefore on a fast track. Tier-ones, obviously, which are
the incumbents and which already have the marketshare, tend to look at
things in terms of a much larger strategy--they tend to think in terms of
their larger infrastructural needs and goals, and they build their own
infrastructure. So we have to integrate into their existing, complex
environments--and that, of course, is fine, because our platform is
meant to fit into pretty much any environment. But our work with them
generally tends to proceed more slowly.
[itvt]: Which operators are currently using your technologies?
Flynn-Ripley: We have eight announced customers, including top 20
MSO's Knology and WOW!, as well as Comporium, Hargray, Everest,
EATEL, Foothills Telephone Cooperative and Bristol Virginia Utilities
OptiNet. We're working with several tier-ones and expect to start
announcing our already signed contracts with tier-one service providers
from the US and international markets throughout 2008.
[itvt]: Can you talk a little bit about the services your customers are
using your platform to deliver?
Flynn-Ripley: I'm somewhat limited as to what I can talk about. As you
can imagine, in this category of differentiating services, our customers
very often don't want to tip their hat to their competitors about what
they're doing, in advance of actually doing it.
What I can say is that, in North America, as I just mentioned, most
operators are starting with TV-based caller ID. Also, with our
brand-new customers, we're seeing a trend toward the simultaneous
launch of TV- and PC-based caller ID. And we're also definitely seeing
our existing TV-based caller ID customers moving up the converged
services chain, to incorporate the PC into the mix, and to add services
including customer-care notifications (where operators can send
messages to their customers about, for example, service upgrades and
maintenance); voicemail notifications (where a banner alert on the TV
or PC lets subscribers know they have voicemail messages); voicemail
logs (which contain a repository of call information associated with
incoming voicemails and allow subscribers to listen to them); and news
alerts (where subscribers can receive banner alerts that display
headlines of their choice).
We have a lot of customers who are interested in our upcoming
applications that are scheduled to launch in '08. Those include our
voicemail through the TV application--where you can access and listen
to your live voicemail messages on the TV--as well as an application
for text messaging to the TV, which we previewed at CES 2007. With
this service, text messages sent from mobile phones to landline
numbers are diverted to subscribers' televisions, and subscribers can
use their remote controls to reply or click to call. We're also going to be
launching an application that sends caller-ID notifications to mobile
phones: you'll be able to see calls to your landline phone in real time on
your cell phone. Another thing we're doing is SMS retail couponing, as
an extension of targeted advertising: we're embedding our active call
control into targeted local advertising, so that, when you see an overlay
over, say, a commercial for a pizza parlor, you can click a button on
your remote and get connected to the pizza parlor and instantly order a
pizza with a two-dollars-off coupon. It's all about adding real-time
components to the targeted advertising space, in order to realize the
instant-gratification model of interactive advertising. Basically,
applications like this allow you to create a dialog with the consumer,
that isn't considered just advertising any more, but rather is seen as
useful information that ends in a transaction.
[itvt]: Will viewers be able to bookmark these coupons, so that they can
use them at any time, or will they need to use them only during or
immediately after the commercial they're associated with?
Flynn-Ripley: We just provide the platform, so it's really up to the
service provider to make decisions like that. We're very flexible with
what we can do: it could either go into a coupon log or it could
disappear, so to speak. But I think it shows that we have a platform that
supports not only some very interesting and innovative forms of
communication, but communication that results in transactions.
[itvt]: You just mentioned that you have an SMS-to-TV application.
Could you talk a little about that?
Flynn-Ripley: In general, our platform gives the service provider a lot
of latitude in deciding how to configure the services it enables. It not
only delivers these various convergent applications, but it also has both
an operator portal and a customer control portal, so that the service
provider and the consumer can orchestrate which services go to which
devices in the home at which times of day. These control portals are
driven by our Edge Device Handler, which accesses our triple-play
database of services, devices and phone numbers to send the
appropriate application to the appropriate device.
We're putting control over all that into the service providers' hands, and
they are then allowing the end-users to actually specify what kinds of
services they want going to which devices. Our platform also has the
flexibility to allow the service providers to let the end-users decide how
their services appear on the device screen--so the end-users can decide
that they want a text service to appear, say, as a banner of a certain size,
in such and such a color, and either on the top or the bottom of the
screen, and so forth. An end-user whose service provider has deployed
our platform could assign his phone number to whichever devices in his
home he wanted to receive text messages on, and would then be able to
view those messages in his preferred layout--he could say, for example,
"I want to receive text messages on this particular TV set or PC, and I
want them to appear at the top of the screen." If one of his kids were to
send him a text message while he was watching TV, it would pop up
only on that television set--not on the other television sets in his
house--and he could then either read the message, or just let it go to the
text log, if he didn't want to read it right away. And if he did want to
read it, he could open it up, and then respond by calling her back: he
could use our iClick functionality--which is our term for click-to-call:
he'd simply click the "A" button on the universal remote, his home
phone would ring, and he'd automatically be connected to his kid's cell
phone so that he could talk to her. Or he could send a pre-recorded
response, or a text message. We actually have a large operator customer
that's done some research and has found that younger people have no
problem texting on the TV remote, even without any kind of overlay. I
personally couldn't do that, but I'm sure my daughter could.
I definitely think that one of the primary uses of our SMS application is
going to be for groups--not necessarily a family group, like in the
example I just gave you: it could be used by a group of friends to text
one another about a TV show that they were all watching at the same
time.
[itvt]: And for this service to work, the operator doesn't need to be a
quad-play provider, correct--i.e. doesn't need to offer their own wireless
mobile service?
Flynn-Ripley: Exactly. A video provider that deploys this application
doesn't have to also be a wireless mobile provider: you can receive any
SMS message on your set-top box, regardless of which mobile
provider's network the message is from. On the other hand, if your
video provider is also your wireless provider, then you can have voice
calls to your cell phone displaying on your TV and your PC. But the
beauty of the SMS product is that you don't need to be a quad-play
provider: you're simply bridging SMS services into your video
environment.
[itvt]: Which set-top boxes are you currently enabled on?
Flynn-Ripley: We're delivering services on all the Scientific-Atlanta
set-top boxes and on all the Motorola boxes, starting with the
DCT-2000. We're also on Pace boxes, and we're interoperable with
several IPTV middleware platforms. We actually have some customers
who have both cable and IPTV set-top boxes deployed, and the same i5
platform is delivering services simultaneously to both kinds.
[itvt]: Which middleware platforms are you enabled on?
We're enabled on Minerva, Nokia Siemens and Myrio, and we've
recently joined the Microsoft Mediaroom Developer program.
[itvt]: How much of your technology is in the network and how much
is in the device?
Flynn-Ripley: Well, typically around 98% of our software platform sits
in the network, and then we have very thin software clients sitting on
the devices. In some cases, we don't even need to have software clients
on the devices--that's the case with both OCAP and E-BIF, for
example. And, on the PC, we can deliver into an IM client, or we can
download our own PC client.
Because we have this thin-client approach, it's very easy for us to
integrate into the various middleware and set-top box platforms that are
out there--it's just a very small piece of code, that stays constant,
regardless of the different applications that it needs to support.
[itvt]: You mentioned earlier how your SMS application might be used
to enable social interaction around television programming. Do you
have any plans to work directly with broadcasters on these kinds of
applications?
Flynn-Ripley: Fundamentally, we sell services to companies that have
telecom infrastructure. So, while our platform certainly enables
content-oriented applications that programmers can use, our business
focus at this point is on the service provider, not the programmer. I
think that might evolve over time, and I can definitely see us helping
broker relationships between our customers and programmers and
broadcasters that might want to take advantage of the services we
enable. But remember that the relationships between the programmers
and the service providers--at least on the cable side--have been
established for many, many years. So getting in the middle of those
relationships could put us in an awkward position. Now, on the telco
side, these relationships are just emerging, and we could perhaps play a
role there--we see ourselves as enablers, and we could add new
dimensions to those relationships. But today our focus is pretty much
exclusively on the service providers.
[itvt]: Presumably your platform would lend itself to partnerships with
Web-based social-networking services?
Flynn-Ripley: Yes. There's definitely a lot of discussion right now
about how to bring social media into the television environment, and
certainly communication is fundamental to creating these
social-networking environments: when you can add communication
services like texting and IM to a video environment, you're creating a
significant adjunct to what you have in environments like Facebook
and MySpace. So we're certainly open to exploring the
social-networking space, but right now we're focused on the basics of
getting our platform deployed and up and running, and on targeting the
network operators. The market--at least in North America--has dictated
that TV- and PC-based caller ID is the first application that our
platform is being used to enable. But the beauty of having a
platform-based approach is that we can layer on additional applications
easily.
[itvt]: You also offer an application called i-Inform, that allows
operators to send end-users customer-care notifications and
personalized content alerts. Are any of your operator customers using
that application?
Flynn-Ripley: We plan to make some announcements--if not before the
end of the year, then very early in Q1--with some of our TV caller ID
customers that are also offering those services. Our internal research
has shown that customer-care applications are likely to be very
well-received by consumers: when we surveyed people, we positioned
the application as enabling them to get information about programming
line-ups and about important technology upgrades. We found that
people are expecting the service providers to use it only for very
important and very targeted information. People are open to having an
ongoing dialog with their service providers, provided it's about things
that are important to them: they're open to having a pop-up appear on
their TV or PC screen, versus just getting an email, particularly when
it's programming-related. What better way to inform people that, say,
the Weather Channel has moved from channel 32 to channel 42 than to
pop this information up on the TV screen and provide viewers with a
little button that moves you from the previous channel location to the
new channel location?
[itvt]: Now Integra5 is building up its patent portfolio, correct? What's
the strategy behind that?
Flynn-Ripley: Yes, we do have a growing patent portfolio, covering
call-screening and call-management, and we were recently granted our
first US patent. Our patent strategy is simply about protecting our
intellectual property. It's about validating the fact that we've been in
this space for quite a long time--the patent that was just granted to us
was filed back in 2001. The company's been focused on these types of
cross-platform communications services for a long time, and now
people are starting to wake up to the fact that there's a triple-play
service provider market out there--rapidly turning into a quad-play
service provider market--and that it's getting highly competitive. The
operators are moving beyond the bundle as a pricing mechanism and
are starting to say, "I've got to deliver value-added services to my
customers, in order to get them to stay with me." In this emerging war,
for want of a better word, our fundamental belief is that whoever
delivers the best user experience across multiple devices is going to
win. And it's not just a war between cable and the telcos: it's a war that
includes big online brands, like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
Everyone wants to control the communications experience across
devices: cable and the telcos just happen to have an edge right now,
because they already have a relationship with many of the devices in
question.
Our patents, which describe how we implement via a network
approach, aren't being assembled for the purposes of some kind of
litigation strategy down the road, but simply in order to protect our IP
in a space that's becoming very crowded.
[itvt]: Do you have any plans to target international markets?
Flynn-Ripley: Yes. We're expanding into Latin America--where we
recently signed a reseller deal with Solusoft and will announce another
deal shortly--and Canada, and we expect to be able to announce new
customers in both of those regions shortly. We see those as very big
markets, and as increasingly competitive environments.
[itvt]: Are you, by any chance, working on launching a developer
program?
Flynn-Ripley: No, but we are talking about it actively. We'd really love
to be able to put a set of tools in the hands of people like your readers
and see what they come up with. So that's absolutely on our roadmap.
Right now, though, we're so consumed with meeting customer needs
that it's been put on the back-burner, unfortunately. There's definitely a
lot of room for new applications in the world of converged services--it's
much more than just caller ID on the TV. I think people are starting to
wake up to that, and I think they're really going to wake up to it in
2008.
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