More than seven hundred thousand Dutch households and businesses rely on quad-play operator DELTA Fiber Netherlands for broadband, TV, landline and mobile telephone services. DELTA has been using 24i’s Smart Video product as the back-end for its pay TV operation since 2015 when it first launched a Cloud PVR service.
A complete Pay TV back-end
Smart Video manages the encoding and streaming of more than 250 live TV channels and almost 200 radio channels to DELTA set-top boxes (STBs) including pause, resume and restart functionality. Based on an ingested Electronic Program Guide (EPG), the 24i software also handles the full complexity of creating, protecting and serving Catch-up and PVR content.
Subscribers request the recording of an individual program or series via the STB interface, but the content is stored in Smart Video’s servers rather than on the individual STB. The same file is then streamed to any other subscribers that also choose to record that content, minimizing DELTA’s storage costs.
As the main contractor in the end-to-end pay TV solution, 24i has integrated the Smart Video software into DELTA’s subscriber management solution, a network delivery solution, and a STB user interface provided by their existing development partner. Smart Video orchestrates these various solutions to ensure each subscriber has access to the content included in their pay TV package.
