Orca Interactive (
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(Internet Protocol Television) middleware and applications recently announced its plans to go into the Asia Pacific market.
Orca Interactive, a subsidiary of Viaccess, plans to help service providers and broadband network operators in the Asia-Pacific market accelerate growth by introducing the next generation interactive TV. In order to make a strategic expansion, Orca plans to start its business development activities in the Asia-Pacific regions during the last four months of 2008.
To set this into motion, Ofer Weintraub, Chief Technology Officer at Orca, spoke about the latest developments in IPTV (
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Having been established in 1996, Orca Interactive is a wholly-owned unit of France Telecom (
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“By extending the company's footprint in key Asia Pacific markets, Orca is delivering on its long-term commitment to the advancement of IPTV worldwide, now supported by Viaccess. This move, coupled with our vast experience gained in IPTV rollouts across Europe, the U.S. and Latin America, is testament to the maturity of our solution and to the advantages available to operators in APAC from our ever-expanding portfolio of services, technologies and partnerships,” said Sefy Ariely, vice president of Sales and Marketing at Orca Interactive.
“The IPTV market in Asia is on the rise and we are confident that this expansion will create exciting opportunities for further growth,” Ariely added.
Apart from including its RiGHTv middleware
in its product range for APAC, Orca will also be displaying its content discovery platform, COMPASS, at CommunicAsia (
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Shireen Dee is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Shireen’s articles, please visit her columnist page.
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