Avail Media announced a collaboration with Motorola to deliver MWAVE ("MPEG-4 Wide Area Video Entertainment"), a combination of equipment and services that will enable IPTV service providers to rapidly launch new entertainment services over their high speed data networks.

MWAVE is capable of transporting Avail Media's more than 200 SD channels and more than 20 channels of HD content for access by operators who want to quickly launch a suite of television services without the capital expense and time constraints of building a complete video headend.

MWAVE brings together all the elements required to launch competitive IPTV entertainment services to end customers. MPEG-4 content distribution is provided via Avail Media's Avail Connect service, which originates at Avail Media's state-of-the-art super headend uplinks in Hagerstown, Maryland, and Toronto, Canada. Avail Media's service is combined with elements of Motorola's extensive IPTV portfolio, including set-tops, encoders, systems integration services, and program management for video hub office components, including third-party middleware and digital rights management.

Service providers adopting MWAVE need only construct their local video hub offices where local content, such as off-air channels, public, educational, and government channels, and emergency alert services are merged with the supplied national linear channels to construct a comprehensive channel lineup. To accelerate network build-outs, Motorola offers "pre- packaged" video hub offices so that fully-configured and compatible equipment can be integrated and deployed rapidly in service provider serving areas to offer service in customers' targeted communities.

Motorola is the acknowledged leader in video network solutions, having deployed more than 2,500 digital headends in both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. This leadership extends to IPTV headends and cable video networks. As a result, more programmers in North America deploy Motorola satellite video delivery network solutions than any other solution. Motorola is also a world leader in digital set tops, having shipped more than 60 million cable set-tops and more than two million IPTV set tops.