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Netgem boosts Estonia Binge TV

Telco-focused entertainment solution provider Netgem, has been selected by Finnish telecoms operator Elisa to deploy its Diamond entertainment software suite in Estonia. The new service, Binge TV, will enable Elisa mobile operations to benefit from Netgem’ s range of Virtual STB features in order to extend their reach to a new audience segment of TV customers in Estonia.

The Netgem-powered service will enable the Binge TV service to provision customers with a range of new TV services, including an integrated user interface that seamlessly surfaces content into one place, from across an optimal range of local and international linear channels, powerful seven-day catch-up, or even integrating OTT services such as YouTube and Netflix. Binge TV also incorporates a network PVR( nPVR) that offers access to thousands of hours of on demand programming across a multiscreen environment inside and outside the home, with a recommendation engine based on the most popular programmes.
The market leader in telecoms in Finland, Elisa provides services to 2.3 million consumers, corporate and public administration customers. Building on an existing successful partnership, Elisa, whose IPTV platform in its home market has been very successful, has chosen Netgem’ s virtual STB cloud solution to support its deployment of Binge TV and help it reach a growing audience within Estonia. The Netgem solution
also integrates the Binge TV mobile app, which provides direct access to live and catch-up services across all available channels.
“ As we expand into new countries, we want to provide consumers with the best TV experience possible, and a flexible way to grow the service once launched,” advised Einari Kanerva, head of binge business at Elisa. By deploying Binge TV, we can reach a growing population who want access to their TV content wherever they are, and Netgem’ s platform gives us a unique flexibility to add more content and features over time.”
Sylvain Thevenot, managing director operator solutions at Netgem, said:
“ Consumer behaviour is changing, and operators need rapidly deployable and dynamic solutions that will enable them to maintain a competitive edge. This deployment of Binge TV using Netgem’ s Diamond entertainment software suite enables Elisa to reach new audience segments as it extends into a new market, offering a full suite of live, on demand and quality OTT content based on an award-winning cloud-based platform from day one.”
Following on from the announcement of its first customers in the Middle East and Germany, Estonia is the third new television market Netgem is entering in 2017.
Globecast delivers for Euronews over the public Internet
Francois Schmitt, Chief Operating Officer at Euronews commented:“ Our over-arching goal with this project is to
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media, has expanded its relationship with Euronews, the most-watched international news channel in Europe, to deliver broadcast-grade video content over the public Internet for Euronews’ eight new tailor-made channels among its 12 linguistic services. Globecast is doing so via its robust and innovative GCXN transport service, which manages the transport of broadcast and media services over the public Internet— lowering costs and increasing flexibility.
Under this deal, Globecast
transport solution using its bespoke GCBN( fibre) connectivity from Euronews’ media facility in Lyon( France) to Globecast’ s facility in Paris. From there, the channels are delivered via the GCXN service to operators worldwide and are broadcast over satellite, cable, and IPTV to consumers across varying regions. The content is delivered to around 60 affiliates and the eight channels are available in: English, French, Italian, German, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. They were created as part of Euronews’ NEXT strategic programme to empower its
universally appealing content. We already had six channels over satellite, and we knew that adding more channels this way would be expensive. After liaising with Globecast, it was very clear that their GCXN system would be the ideal technology for us. With it, we’ re able to increase our channel count and reach a more diverse audience without increasing our costs.”
Globecast’ s GXCN transport service lets customers create and distribute content wherever they may be, faster and more cost effectively than using traditional fibre or satellite. For the utmost
a complementary solution to satellite services. It can also be used for disaster recovery and monitoring of video services.
“ Our GCXN service is incredibly reliable for distributing content over the public Internet, helping our customers cut down on the costs associated with using fibre or satellite. With GCXN, we offer 99.9 per cent guaranteed reliability from Globecast’ s facilities over the public internet to the customer reception device on their premises. GCXN significantly increases our service offering and allows an extra level of flexibility and
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