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Entone Technologies, a leading provider of personal video content delivery solutions, announced today that Pioneer Long Distance (PLD), a subsidiary of Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc., has selected Entone?s carrier-class video on demand (VOD) and content ingest workflow solutions to support its IP television (IPTV) service launch. PTC?s IPTV rollout covers its entire network of 72 exchanges across the state of Oklahoma, providing up to 33,000 homes with IPTV and VOD services.
To facilitate its ambitious launch, PTC has selected Entone?s full suite of VOD solutions for creating, managing, and delivering digital assets. These solutions include:
* StreamLiner network video recorder (NVR) ? VOD server software that turns standard HP and IBM server hardware into the industry?s highest performing video servers without the costs, risks, and inflexibility that comes with competing hardware-based solutions.
* Encoding Studio content ingest system ? Market-leading solution for managing the process of capturing, encoding, quality assuring, and staging VOD assets.
* Armada intelligent asset manager ? Dynamic runtime system for distributing and cost-optimizing the placement of VOD assets across a network of video servers.
PTC, the third largest telephone cooperative, is upgrading its entire eight-region network with high-speed ADSL2+ and IPTV services. When complete, it will deliver up to 166 channels of streaming broadcast video and use ADSL2+ to support the viewing of as many as three different TV channels simultaneously per home. PTC IPTV service subscribers can choose from a number of bundled packages that include high-speed Internet access, voice services, and special features, such as On-screen Caller ID.
PTC executives said they chose Entone?s products and solutions due to their market leadership position, reliability, strong customer references, and best fit for the needs of PTC?s distributed IP network architecture.
?The deployment of our IPTV infrastructure relies on close collaboration with our technology partners,? said Scott Ulsaker, Video Business Manager, Pioneer Telephone Cooperative. ?We were looking for a server platform that is field proven, scalable, flexible, and cost-effective. After an extensive evaluation of our server options, we found that Entone?s StreamLiner NVR platform best meets these criteria.?
PTC is using the Entone technology in combination with video headend equipment from Tut Systems, middleware from Myrio, and server hardware from Hewlett Packard. PTC?s IPTV service launch includes several Entone VOD servers deployed across multiple operating centers.
?We are delighted to be working with the team at PTC. Their plans are ambitious, forward-looking, and absolutely achievable with the excellent team they have assembled,? said Steve McKay, CEO of Entone Technologies. ?We are excited to work with such a progressive and well-regarded operator and look forward to supporting their success as a triple play service operator.?
About Entone?s Full Suite of VOD Solutions
The Entone StreamLiner network video recorder (NVR) provides the industry?s most flexible, reliable and cost-effective solution for delivering personal television services. StreamLiner NVR is a software architecture that transforms standard server hardware by HP and IBM into specialized, high-performance video servers that ingest, store and stream video programming on demand. The StreamLiner NVR solution is field proven in dozens of deployments around the world.
Armada is an intelligent asset management solution for dynamically managing digital assets across a distributed cluster of servers based on actual consumption patterns. Armada?s dynamic configuration capabilities constantly monitor customer behavior and make necessary adjustments to meet changing needs. By optimizing network bandwidth and asset storage resources, Armada increases efficiency while decreasing operational costs. Entone?s Encoding Studio is a fully integrated content encoding solution that takes digital assets from the point of ingest, through the encoding and QA processes, and onto playout servers. It is also a software solution that runs on any standard server platform, such as HP and IBM.
About Pioneer Telephone
Pioneer Telephone is a multi-service communications company with more than 140,000 total customers/members in 30 Oklahoma counties. Serving customers since 1953, Pioneer is the third largest telephone cooperative in the United States. Pioneer provides an array of communications products and services, including Local Telephone Service, Digital TV, Cellular, DSL, Long Distance, Internet, Paging, Security Systems, Key System Sales/Maintenance and Directory Advertisement.
More information is available at Pioneer's newly designed website www.ptci.com.
About Entone Technologies
Entone Technologies, Inc. is a next-generation provider of personal television solutions that uniquely sits at the nexus of two revolutionary developments in home entertainment: on-demand television and in-home multimedia networking. Entone equips the world?s leading video service operators with a full range of standards-based solutions including content ingest workflow, asset management, software-defined video servers, and residential IP Video Gateways. Established in 1999 by the team that deployed the world?s first commercial video-on-demand (VOD) service, Entone has worked with many of the world?s leading video service operators and is recognized for its practical focus on improving the business case for personal video services. Entone is headquartered in San Mateo, California with offices in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.
For more information about Entone Technologies, go to www.entone.com.
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