Interactive TV specialist Tamblin today announces the immediate availability of its new IPTV Interactive Portal. Powered by industry leading i-ZoneTV the product features some of the most advanced and visually rich templates yet available on any IPTV platform. Tamblin's IPTV Interactive Portal allows telecoms operators to quickly and cost-effectively deploy interactive services on their IPTV platform. The product consists of a library of highly engaging, user-friendly templates that operators can use to build games portals, magazine sites, user-generated content portals or interactive sponsorship and advertising sites.

Tamblin is working with a number of key players in the IPTV industry, including Microsoft, Ant and Espial, to ensure its IPTV Interactive Portal can deploy quickly to these leading platforms.

The IPTV Interactive Portal is a one-stop solution for delivering interactivity to an IPTV platform, whether it be as part of an IPTV Operator's interactive service, or sits behind a particular Channel Operator's programme offering. Tamblin is currently working with two European telecoms operators to integrate the IPTV Interactive Portal into their existing IPTV platform and play out infrastructure.

Stuart Waite, CEO at Tamblin, said: "Having deployed more than 70 interactive TV services in the UK alone, Tamblin is acutely aware of the issues surrounding new platforms and their time to market. The IPTV Interactive Portal is based upon our years of experience in delivering cost-effective, revenue-generating interactive TV services. We're taking the power of i-ZoneTV, combined with a library of highly-flexible and visually-advanced templates, to deliver interactive TV services on IPTV platforms around the world."