Greek operator, ON Telecoms, which launched the first IPTV services in Athens in late January, has selected BitBand for the deployment.

ON Telecoms operates a metropolitan fiber network in the Athens area, on which advanced triple play services are delivered. On Telecoms completed the initial phase of a fully owned metropolitan fibre network in Attica of more than 170km. On Telcoms services are available today for 40% of households and businesses and will reach 80% by March 2007. Within the triple play offering, ON Telecoms' aim is to introduce next generation TV and video services, offering its customers a array of entertainment packages.

ON Telecoms will utilize BitBand's solution to deliver Catch-up TV, NPVR, VOD and other On Demand services, including BitBand's Maestro Content Distribution and Management suite and the BitBand Vision servers streaming the video content on demand to subscribers.

On Telecoms is the first operator to utilize BitBand's ISIS solution, offering new video technology that combines BitBand X-Stream, RAM and disk very high video streaming performance, as well as BitBand's Auto-CDN, an Automatic Content Distribution Platform. This technology performs dynamic placement of content in the proper network location according to subscribers' actual demand. It enables significant reduction in Operator investments, both in terms of storage allocation and core network utilization.