Swisscom’s Bluewin is testing TANDBERG Television’s Windows Media 9 Series encoding platform for an IPTV service over ADSL. Bluewin is the first carrier worldwide to conduct a commercial trial of TV services over an IP broadband network using IPTV technology from Microsoft TV and TANDBERG’s EN5920 encoder. The EN5920 is based on TANDBERG’s Intelligent Compression Engine (ICE), which provides a modular and upgradeable solution for Windows Media 9 Series and MPEG-4 part 10 technologies.
The trial, which begins next month, will provide 30 channels of live television, video on demand and PVR (personal video recorder) services presented through an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) as part of a Triple Play mix of TV, telephony and high speed internet to several hundred paying customers in the German speaking part of Switzerland. http://www.tandbergtv.comhttp://www.bluewin.ch
