Microsoft has launched a new program to ease the transition for IPTV service providers using other platforms to migrate to its solution. The Microsoft Mediaroom Migration Program delivers a structured assessment process and analytical tools for migration, including business and technical workshops to review set-top-box portability, network compatibility and audio-visual head-end interoperability. The three key phases in the program are:
- Phase 1 — Planning scenarios around engineering and business metrics, assessment of lifetime value of the customer, marketing research kit, usability testing.
- Phase 2 — Trial program creation, including infrastructure and set-top box migration and migration communications planning.
- Phase 3 — Delivery of training and workshops, operational readiness planning for commercial deployment, platform migration and eventual legacy decommissioning. This involves review of the architecture including servers, set-top boxes, encoder feeds and video-on-demand assets.
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