BitBand announces that FASTWEB is installing BitBand's new Vision 880 Video On Demand servers throughout FASTWEB's points of presence in Italy, providing higher streaming throughput and increased storage capacities, thus enabling FASTWEB to easily expand the delivery of IPTV services.

FASTWEB is Italy’s leading provider of commercial converged triple-play services over broadband and one of the most successful triple-play service providers in the world today. BitBand’s video solutions enable FASTWEB to deliver high quality IPTV VOD, NPVR (Network Personal Video Recording) and Catch-Up TV services to subscribers throughout Italy.

BitBand Vision 880 servers employ BitBand X:Stream, BitBand's new high performance streaming technology, offering more than 7 Gbps streaming throughput and storing up to 10,000 hours of H.264 SD Video on a standard server platform. The Vision 880 servers provided add more than 100 Terabytes of storage to the FASTWEB IPTV network.