GLDS Takes to the Cloud for the Cable Show
Great Lakes Data Systems plans to demonstrate its cloud-based billing, subscriber management and provisioning system, as well as mobile workforce technologies, at the NCTA Cable Show in Boston. The company’s WinCable in the Cloud is a cloud-based version of its … Continue reading
SeaChange Back Office to Deploy in Poland
Vectra, Poland’s third-largest cable operator, will implement SeaChange International‘s (NASDAQ:SEAC) web-centric Adrenalin video back office to support its rollout of VOD this year, as well as future expansion into multiscreen services and social TV. SeaChange will demonstrate Adrenalin at the … Continue reading
The Brave New World of the Multiscreen OSS
Multiscreen service initiatives will have a profound impact on cable operators’ operational support system/business support system (OSS/BSS) infrastructures, according to experts. To date, the industry has operated with a more or less hardwired and direct tie between the BSS and … Continue reading
Seachange Offers a Recommendation
SeaChange International (NASDAQ:SEAC) has agreed to license APRICO content recommendation source code and other intellectual property rights from Royal Philips Electronics. The agreement allows SeaChange to integrate personalized, content-aware and collaborative recommendation functionality into its Adrenalin multiscreen video back office … Continue reading
Allot to Buy Ortiva Wireless
Allot Communications (NASDAQ:ALLT) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ortiva Wireless, which offers a solution for proactive management of mobile video. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter … Continue reading
cVidya Revenue Assurance to Deploy in Israel
cVidya Networks‘ MoneyMap Revenue Assurance OSS/BSS solution will be deployed by Israeli cable operator HOT. cVidya will be providing revenue assurance services and business consulting for HOT’s TV, broadband, telephony, and VOD operations. cVidya will specifically focus on delivering provisioning … Continue reading
SeaChange Scores in Cyprus
SeaChange International has supplied its Adrenalin web-centric back office to Cablenet in Cyprus. The solution is designed to support VOD, time shift TV and price promotions. SeaChange installed the back office and integrated with Cablenet’s existing SeaChange STAGIS and CASIS … Continue reading
VOD Ad Potential $1 Billion
According to a report from Rentrak, VOD is at the tipping point of becoming a major ad medium. The report indicates that free on-demand (FOD) content experienced 17% growth in 2011 to 6.8 billion transactions. With an average of 5 … Continue reading
ARRIS Taps Sigma Systems for Project Management
ARRIS has selected Sigma Systems‘ Global Services team to deliver local project management and engineering services to help integrate WorkAssure workforce management with service providers’ back office systems. Under the terms of the agreement, ARRIS will continue to own primary … Continue reading
BlackArrow Unveils Dynamic Ad Insertion
BlackArrow announced new capabilities of its Advanced Advertising System that are designed to enable service providers to work with programming networks to expand the sale, placement and measurement of dynamic advertising insertion across IP and traditional pay-TV platforms. The enhancements, … Continue reading
Charter Taps FourthWall for EBIF Ads
Charter Communications plans to deploy FourthWall Media‘s Ad Widgets interactive solutions to approximately 800,000 digital households in five markets for interactive advertising and additional interactive capabilities. Ad Widgets is an end-to-end interactive TV advertising solution built on CableLabs‘ EBIF and … Continue reading
WideOrbit to Debut Ad System at NAB
WideOrbit‘s WO Network is designed as an end-to-end ad management solution for cable networks. It will be presented in the WideOrbit booth at NAB in Las Vegas next week. The solution includes an ad sales system to manage selling names … Continue reading
UXP Does Multiscreen … for Phones
UXP Systems has implemented its Multiscreen Interaction (MINT) Platform in support of the upcoming launch of a “Home-Phone-To-Go” service for Barbados-based Columbus Communications‘ cable system in Trinidad. Columbus’s retail asset in Trinidad, Flow, has a customer base of more than … Continue reading