--Service will be Delivered Using MPEG-4
Cavalier Telephone says that it will launch an IPTV service, called Cavalier Broadband TV, in Richmond, Virginia next month. The service will provide 150 TV and music channels, an EPG, on-screen caller ID, and VOD. Significantly, it will be delivered over the telco's 15Mbps fiber optic ADSL2+ network using MPEG-4 technology. The service will employ Amino's AmiNET 124 set-top box; a range of IPTV and VOD products from Kasenna (including 1) the latter's full PortalTV product suite, which consists of its LivingRoom middleware platform and client SDK, its MediaBase video servers, and its vFusion video network management software, as well as 2) major studio content from Kasenna's content aggregation subsidiary, ViewNow, and 3) Kasenna's ViewTrak monitoring software); and Tut Systems' MPEG-4 AVC Astria Content Processor platform.
The new IPTV service will be bundled with Cavalier's existing phone and data services: the triple-play will be priced at $95 per month. In Richmond, it will pass 150,000 households; after it is rolled out in the coming months to Cavalier's other markets--which include Norfolk, Virginia; Baltimore; Philadelphia; Delaware; and Northern Virginia--it will pass around 2 million households. Cavalier says that it plans to launch additional interactive applications on the service going forward.
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