Avail Media has signed a contract to offer Intelsat’s MPEG-4 content aggregation and delivery service - Intelsat IPTV. With the new agreement, Avail Media, who provides turnkey solutions, will be able to offer an IPTV solution to its customer base consisting of telco operators fiber-to-the-home providers and independent cable operators. Avail will offer its IPTV solution starting in the second quarter of 2007.
The Intelsat IPTV Super Headend will offer a lineup of more than 200 video and audio channels in MPEG-4 IP format.