Tandberg Television's OpenStream Digital Services platform has been fully deployed by Multimedia Polska to power its entire on-demand VOD services.

Multimedia Polska has over 600,000 customers and is one of the leading Polish providers of triple-play, combining hybrid cable/IPTV television, broadband internet and fixed-line telephony in a single package. The VOD service is a critical part of the Polish operator’s deployment of a major, advanced multimedia offering. Programming includes a broad line up of movies, sports and entertainment and is available either via free, subscription, transaction or ‘time-shift/catch-up’ services. Multimedia Polska also launched a HDTV offering last year using Tandberg Television encoding and future plans will see the operator introduce more advanced, revenue generating services such as mobile TV.

As part of the contract Tandberg Television has provided its Xport on-demand content production software system, as well as its OpenStream back office. The deal builds on Tandberg Television’s leadership position in the on-demand market. With five OpenStream systems already deployed in Europe, including UPC Netherlands, Tandberg Television has rapidly become the European market leader in on-demand back office solutions. In addition, OpenStream is the leading open digital services platform in North America and has multiple deployments in Asia, including Oriental Cable Network (OCN) in Shanghai.

The industry’s leading open standards based solution, OpenStream offers operators the flexibility of using servers, applications, billing systems, and other system components of their choice. The platform currently delivers on-demand streams to more than 60 US markets reaching over 15 million digital subscribers. Top operators who have commercially deployed the OpenStream platform include Comcast, Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable and UPC. OpenStream was also selected as the platform of choice for the small to mid-size market by National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), which represents over 1,000 independent cable operators serving more than 14 million subscribers nationwide.