Espial announces that Chongqing Cable TV Network has selected Espial MediaBase to power their on-demand services. Chongqing Cable TV Network is located in the southwest of China and provides analog and digital TV services to 4.2 million subscribers. With this launch, they establish themselves as one of the most innovative cable operators in the world. Using Espial MediaBase, they can now offer Video-On-Demand, TV On-Demand, Network PVR and Timeshift-TV services. With this line-up of on-demand services now launched, Chongqing Cable TV Network will begin converting their entire subscriber base to digital TV services over the next few years.

During their VOD system selection process, Chongqing Cable TV Network was impressed with the capabilities of Espial MediaBase. Espial MediaBase is tightly integrated with the Business Management Solution for Cable Operators from Huawei, their preferred system integrator. They were able to overcome backbone network bandwidth constraints with its powerful multi-tiered, multicast content distribution networking and server clustering features. The ability to fine-tune their VOD hardware and software configurations to each of their service regions was an advantage over suppliers who provide a limited set of hardware and licensing configurations. They were also able to differentiate their user experience with a full range of on-demand services and features like instant playback on time-shift TV services. Overall, they were also able to achieve a low overall cost of ownership with all of these features allowing them reliably, cost-effectively and efficiently distribute content and provide on-demand TV services to users in several cities including Yiran, Baligongshe, Tianlong and Hongxing.