UTStarcom (
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) solution to Sri Lanka Telecom Public Ltd. Co. (SLT).
SLT, an international and domestic voice, Internet, and data services provider, will use the RollingStream platform to bring IPTV (
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capabilities now available with this IPTV deployment.
"UTStarcom's market position is unique in that it primarily offers 'end-to-end' IPTV solutions," said Gary Schultz, president of MRG, Inc., which publishes the semi-annual IPTV Global Market Leader Report that tracks deployments in six IPTV sub-sectors in Asia, Europe, North America and other parts of the globe.
Schultz continued: "In terms of the total number of actual IPTV sub-sectors — and subscribers — served, UTStarcom is the leading end-to-end supplier in the Asian IPTV market. IPTV, as an application-enabler, continues to open up new opportunities for revenue generation for service providers. MRG forecasts global IPTV network capital expenditure (CAPEX) to grow at a 16 percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) more than the next few years, as service providers provision differentiated service offerings to further their competitive edge."
SLT's IPTV deployment is designed to support approximately 100,000 subscribers in the next two years. This will further enable the company to provide video services to future subscribers more than copper lines in the next three to four years.
"Sri Lanka Telecom is well-known in the region as a tier-one communications provider and is credited with establishing several industry firsts in the country," said Vijay Yadav, managing director for UTStarcom in South Asia. "UTStarcom is looking forward to the opportunities our relationship with Sri Lanka Telecom will present in the region and we are committed to providing the operator with a competitive IPTV solution that will extend SLT's strides and solidify Sri Lanka as a major telecom hub in South Asia."
UTStarcom's RollingStream end-to-end IPTV system supports more than 850,000 live IPTV subscribers globally and maintains a total system capacity exceeding 2.5 million subscribers. UTStarcom's RollingStream’s IPTV support system has been successfully deployed in China with China Netcom and China Telecom, in India with Bharti Airtel (
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Arun Satapathy is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Arun’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) | X |
| IPTV delivers a digital television service to subscribers
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Internet Protocol (IP) | X |
| IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data
in packets over the Internet. I...more |
Triple Play | X |
| The Triple play refers to 1-multi-channel television (video), 2-telephony (voice) and 3-Internet (data) on existing twisted-pair wire, coaxial cable, satellite, BPL or other mean including a mix of an...more |
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