IPTV Smart Solution
Your subscribers expect more than pure internet access
Since the take-up of broadband and the advent of web 2.0 services, your subscribers want to consume multimedia services and share content that matches their individual taste. Even watching TV is becoming a more interactive and social activity.
You wish to add value to your core offering
If you want to become your clients’ single provider for voice, video/TV, and data services, you need to add innovative content and multimedia applications to your offering soon. One of your key questions is how to extend your portfolio to advanced IPTV services flexibly, for example, without having to overcome the strong market entry barriers, such as high investments
The TV signal is generated in a TV studio, transmitted to the headend (for example, via the airwaves to a satellite dish), converted to IP by the IPTV platform, and then delivered through the network (DSL, coax or fiber) to the end user’s settop box.
Gain competitive advantage with ICSS’s IPTV Smart Solution
ICSS offers you an easy deployable, quick-to-implement, and, at the same time, advanced IPTV solution at an affordable price.
Providing all the state-of the art features of a true IPTV solution from Internet access to video-on-demand, ICSS’s innovative service will make it easy for you to bring a new television viewing experience to your end customers.
The solution is based on software that delivers all the know-how needed to operate a complete IPTV service.
Your subscribers benefit from an easy-to-use IPTV service
Internet access via TV
Exciting interactive services
User-friendly TV menu and EPG (electronic program guide)
Timeshift TV
Pause and playback live TV
Direct and fast teletext access
Pay-per-view
Video-on-demand (VoD)
Network-based personal video recorder (nPVR)
Full HDTV support
Dealing with one interface and partner: ICSS
ICSS’s white-labeled IPTV Smart Solution covers:
Verification of the solution
Server hardware requirements definition
Demo system
Installation of IPTV middleware
IPTV hardware and software licenses
Service and support
Configuration and customization
Software and documentation in English
Your tasks as the regional/local network operator:
Headend setup, operation, and maintenance
Purchase of server hardware, settop boxes
Content provisioning
Broadcasting licenses
Changes to proprietary or third-party systems such as billing (can be covered via ICSS upon request)
Your benefits as a broadband operator or ISP
Generation of new revenue streams
Increase of customer retention and reduction of churn through enhanced customer loyalty
Options for new business models to enter new markets, such as the TV market
Offers USPs not provided by other technologies: interactivity and VoD (interactive services can open up opportunities for you, the broadband operator)
Pay-as-you-grow
Fast and flexible deployment
Open standards, standard hardware
XML and SNMP interfaces
Carrier-grade architecture
High, efficient scalability
High upselling potential for IPTV applications and converged services
Easy, secure third-party access for applications like betting, voting, gaming, home shopping, etc.