Microsoft Names HP, Tech Mahindra and 180Squared New Systems Integration Partners for Microsoft Mediaroom Deployments
Posted on June 17, 2008
Filed Under Microsoft
LAS VEGAS, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Microsoft Corp. today
announced at NXTcomm08 the addition of Internet Protocol television (IPTV)
systems integration partners HP
(http://h71019.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/261002-0-0-0-121.html), Tech
Mahindra Ltd. (http://techmahindra.com/) and 180Squared Inc.
(http://www.180squared.com/) to the Microsoft Mediaroom technology
ecosystem. The three companies completed a Mediaroom training and
market-readiness program, enabling them to offer deployment services to new
and existing Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV customers, including 20 of the
world’s leading service providers across four continents.
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As part of the training and market-readiness program, the new systems
integrators completed training, which ensures that service providers around
the world will have various high-quality vendors to assist them with
deployments of their Microsoft Mediaroom-powered connected TV service
offerings. The expansion of the Microsoft Mediaroom technology ecosystem to
include additional systems integrators reflects a growing interest in
world- class IPTV services from broadband operators of various sizes and
geographic locations.
HP, Tech Mahindra and 180Squared have also demonstrated their
commitment to ensuring successful deployments of Microsoft
Mediaroom-connected TV services by working with Microsoft to build center
of excellence laboratories around the world. These facilities are being
established to provide service providers with resources to take their IPTV
operations from trial stages to commercial deployment.
“Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft commenced a strategic reseller and
systems integration relationship to accelerate the worldwide availability
of IPTV, and this successful relationship remains in place,” said Christine
Heckart, general manager of marketing for Microsoft Mediaroom. “We are
pleased to further enhance the Mediaroom technology ecosystem with the
addition of deployment service companies HP, Tech Mahindra and 180Squared
to support service providers scaling their differentiated connected TV
services. Alcatel-Lucent has partnered with Microsoft on our largest
Mediaroom IPTV deployments and remains our only end-to-end IPTV system
integrator.”
With the help of these companies, Microsoft Mediaroom will continue to
drive TV innovation worldwide. Fourteen service providers are commercially
deploying Microsoft Mediaroom-powered services to offer advanced connected
TV services to their customers. Microsoft Mediaroom-enabled advanced TV
features include DVR Anywhere, which gives consumers the flexibility to
watch recorded programs on any TV in their home, instant channel changing,
and PC-to-TV photo and music sharing. The Microsoft Mediaroom platform,
which reached 1 million subscriber homes in the first quarter of 2008, is
now powering connected TV services on more than 2 million TV sets
worldwide. It took Mediaroom 18 months to reach its first million TVs and
only five months, more than three times faster, to reach its second million
TVs.
About Microsoft Mediaroom
The award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol Television
(IPTV) and multimedia software platform is driving the future of television
by enabling broadband service providers to deliver new connected TV and
entertainment experiences to consumers worldwide. Microsoft Mediaroom
provides new ways for consumers to experience TV as part of their
connected, digital lifestyle while also creating new business opportunities
for broadband service providers, hardware manufacturers, content creators,
advertisers and application developers. Over 20 of the world’s leading
service providers across four continents have selected the Microsoft
Mediaroom platform to drive their digital TV services. More information on
Microsoft Mediaroom and the opportunity to deliver the best in TV plus all
your media in one place is available at http://www.microsoft.com/TV and
http://www.microsoftmediaroom.com.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in
software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize
their full potential.
SOURCE Microsoft Corp.
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