KT, a Korea-based integrated wired/wireless communications service provider, has selected
TANDBERG Television’s IPTV (
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Company officials said that Mega TV has over 700,000 subscribers and provides interactive and pay per view services, including movies on-demand.
TANDBERG Television’s EN8090 HD MPEG-4 AVC and EN8030 SD MPEG-4 AVC encoders will be used by KT (
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The EN8090 series is TANDBERG Television's (
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The EN8030 series is TANDBERG Television's second generation MPEG-4 AVC SD encoders and it is ideally suited to applications with restricted bandwidth such as TV over DSL; New DTH operations; VOD authoring and News gathering.
“KT is one of the world’s most innovative telecoms companies and the Mega TV IPTV service has established itself as one of the leading IPTV services globally,” said Dario Choi, vice president and general manager of TANDBERG Television Asia Pacific, in a statement.
TANDBERG Television, part of the
Ericsson Group, delivers multimedia technology and expertise that is moving digital video forward.
Whether it's advanced compression systems, on-demand or content distribution, the company's solutions are used by global broadcasters, operators and programmers to deliver new viewer experiences and advertising opportunities.
KT already uses a wide range of TANDBERG Television head end and C&D (Contribution & Distribution) equipment for the Mega TV IPTV service.
Located at interconnect borders with the company’s wholesale customers, Acme Packet’s (
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At these borders, Net-SAFE, Acme Packet’s security framework, provides denial of service attack prevention, access control and topology hiding required to protect KT’s VoIP core network, company officials say.
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