ATLANTA (TelcoTV), October 24, 2007 (Booth #149) - Net Insight announces a solution to ease next-generation IPTV deployments for virtual headend operators with its Nimbra 300 and 600 series multi-service switches.
The Net Insight Nimbra multi-service IPTV platform enables headend operators to aggregate and distribute next-generation services, such as high-definition and non-linear interactive content, over terrestrial networks. Using robust mesh protection switching, it delivers 100 percent QoS and the highest availability. To share headend costs, "virtual headend" operators provide a centralized point of ingest for these services and then multicast those services across the network to subscribing telco and cable operators.
"Installed in over 25 countries, the Nimbra platform has become the worldwide standard for content contribution networks in the broadcast market, with the highest QoS and efficiency in the industry," said Dan Lutter, director of IPTV/CATV sales North America for Net Insight. "We are now extending this platform and our expertise to telco distribution and delivery networks worldwide."
Solutions based upon the Nimbra platform provide the point-to-multipoint efficiency of satellite, the asymmetrical bandwidth of ATM, the scalability and interactivity of IP, and the security and capacity of fiber transport. In addition, headend operators gain price and performance benefits through better network utilization and better picture quality. As a result, Net Insight is offering the most cost-effective path for operators to provide interactive services like personalized programming, time-shift TV, video-on-demand, games-on-demand, and e-commerce.
Net Insight's Nimbra platform has already been deployed by many telco operators worldwide. One operator, Midwest Telnet, has extended its existing Nimbra network in a virtual headend trial to several rural telco and cable customers. "Nimbra switches have been in commercial operation in our network for several years now, and have proved to be very robust and easy to maintain," says Marty Snustead, executive director of Midwest Tel NET. "Net Insight has exceeded our expectations for multi-service transport with the Nimbra platform."
Through the ETSI standardized DTM (Dynamic Synchronous Transfer Mode) technology, Net Insight's Nimbra platform optimizes the IP network providing 97 percent bandwidth utilization at 100 percent QoS. Net Insight will be demonstrating the Nimbra platform at TelcoTV in Atlanta, Georgia on October 23-25 (booth #149).
For more information, please contact:
Dan Lutter, director of sales IPTV/CATV North America, +1 847 921 7552, dan.lutter@netinsight.net
Fredrik Trägårdh, CEO of Net Insight AB, +46 8 685 04 00, fredrik.tragardh@netinsight.net
About Net Insight
Net Insight delivers the world's most efficient and scaleable optical transport solution for Broadcast and Media, Digital Terrestrial TV, Mobile TV and IPTV/CATV networks. Net Insight products truly deliver 100 percent Quality of Service with three times improvement in utilization of bandwidth for a converged transport infrastructure. Net Insight's Nimbra(TM) platform is the industry solution for video, voice and data, reducing operational costs by 50 percent and enhancing competitiveness in delivery of existing and new media services. World class customers run mission critical video services over Net Insight products for more than 100 million people in more than 25 countries. Net Insight is quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.netinsight.net
