Tut Systems, Inc., an industry leader enabling the delivery of next-generation data and video services over broadband networks, announced that Optical Entertainment Networks (OEN) is deploying its IPTV services utilizing Tut Systems' Astria content processor (CP) with its market-leading encoding and digital turn around solutions.

Tut Systems' Astria CP platform serves as the core video processing system for OEN's digital headend. OEN has announced plans to deploy fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) to 1.6 million households in Houston, Texas, the tenth largest television market in the United States. OEN plans to deliver broadcast and on-demand video, high-speed Internet, voice, and a number of other advanced services to its FTTH customers. "Upon completion the system will be the largest FTTH IPTV headend in the country, with more than 400 channels," according to Steven Hawley, Principal Consulting Analyst of research firm Advanced Media Strategies.

"OEN leverages state-of-the-art technologies to provide a premier level of entertainment, services, and value to our customers," said Tom Wendt, President and CEO at OEN. "Tut Systems' Astria platform provides the superior level of technical performance in terms of quality, scalability, and reliability that we require to be a world-class provider of IPTV services."

"Tut Systems is pleased to play an important role in OEN's much-heralded IPTV roll out," said Mark Tiedeman, Vice President of Marketing for Tut Systems. "The vision and passion that the team at OEN shows for the IPTV marketplace is a benchmark for the entire industry and we look forward to a successful roll-out of IPTV services in the Houston market."

The Industry's Leading IPTV Platform for Telcos
More than 160 service providers across five continents deliver IPTV powered by Tut Systems digital headends. The Astria family of video processing platforms, which serves as the core of the company's digital headend solution, processes both analog and digital video streams from multiple satellite and local sources in a variety of formats.

The Astria CP supports MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC video compression, local ad insertion, forward error correction and provides real-time conditioning for distribution of video and audio over any ATM, IP, or RF broadband network. The Astria VSP provides the highest density, carrier class, single chassis product for the delivery of IP video over RF broadband access networks, including coax and FTTP (Fiber to the Premises).