deuromedia releases End to End solution for the Cable Headend

New platform component provides extremely fast and efficient information services to Set-Top-Boxes.

The deuromedia Data Broadcasting Platform (DBP) enables managed broadcasting of digital content over a variety of broadband IP networks like Cable-TV-Networks (DVB-c), Satellite (DVB-s), or terrestrial broadcast (DVB-t). The standard platform has now be enriched by a new service, which enables IP data broadcast over Cable-TV-Networks or satellites to standard Set-Top-Boxes.

The new service enables cable operators to create and offer value added information services to consumers and open up new revenue sources by providing data transmission channels to Content providers.

The application includes software packages for all players in the data broadcasting chain: Content Provider, Service Provider (head-end) and Consumer. The Content Provider prepares, selects and sends the content over the Internet to the head-end. Therefore deuromedia created some easy to handle tools, which automate the content generation and transfer. At the head-end the deuromedia Data Broadcast Platform (DBP) creates the data carousels and overhands the streams to the required DVB-components to be broadcast in the Cable TV Network. On the Consumer side the content is received by a brand DVB-C Set-Top-Box (STB) and displayed on the TV set.

Two different types of content are broadcasted:

• Pictures which contain advertisements and are displayed as a classic slide show e.g. on the start and stop of the STB.
  
  
• HTML formatted information, used for displaying news, standard information or premium EPG data over the internal STB browser. This information is organized in one or more information portals.

The information is organized in Content Provider specific channels and broadcast in data carousels. A channel is described by the type of content, the broadcast schedule the bandwidth and a subscriber group. At the consumer site the STB reads the content directly from the data carousel.

Already in use by some major German companies, the deuromedia Data Broadcasting Platform (DBP) represents a powerful software suite, enabling rapid and the efficient transfer of large data volumes to the Consumer.

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