IPTV Demonstrations to Highlight Advanced Interactive Video Services Featuring the Calix C7 and New E7 Platforms
November 10, 2009, ORLANDO, FL (TelcoTV)—Calix will demonstrate new interactive IPTV
applications enabled by Microsoft Mediaroom at TelcoTV in Orlando
(November 10-12, Orange County Convention Center, booth #501).
The Calix TelcoTV demonstration will include security monitoring and
caller ID applications created by Microsoft Certified Integration
Partner 180Squared using the Mediaroom application development platform,
Mediaroom Presentation Framework. This demonstration will provide a
clear vision of the differentiated user experience that Microsoft
Mediaroom can provide. It will also highlight the deployment flexibility
that the Calix Unified Access Infrastructure can deliver across any
media type or protocol.
Calix customers are now widely deploying the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV
platform across North America, providing a clearly differentiated home
entertainment experience for subscribers. Microsoft Mediaroom includes
differentiated features like instant channel change and multiview
capabilities that allow consumers to see multiple channels and programs
on one screen.
Calix will also demonstrate an advanced home entertainment experience
enabled by Microsoft Mediaroom for Xbox 360 and Cisco set-top box
consoles, across its Unified Access Infrastructure. This powerful home
entertainment experience features content access and control across the
home network, including broadcast, on-demand, recorded, and streamed
content, as well as gaming, music, and digital photography assets. It
will also be the first public demonstration of the Calix E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP).
Calix has worked closely with Microsoft to implement the full extent
of current and emerging Mediaroom features and map them to the realities
of communications service provider deployments. The Calix C7 and E7 platforms have been specifically optimized to support many of the unique features enabled by Mediaroom:
- For service providers transitioning from legacy middleware
environments to Microsoft Mediaroom, the Calix Unified Access
Infrastructure can support dual middleware environments and has the
capacity to handle the duplication of extensive channel line-ups.
- Calix supports video service quality management functionality, which
seamlessly manages the subscriber experience in situations where the
breadth of Microsoft Mediaroom functionality may exceed the total
bandwidth available in bandwidth-constrained deployments.
- Network address translation (NAT) support across the Calix Unified
Access Infrastructure enables a home gateway model, allowing Microsoft
Mediaroom to deliver robust media sharing functionality throughout the
subscriber home environment.
- Comprehensive support for advanced Microsoft Mediaroom services and
features across the Calix Unified Access Infrastructure, including
virtually any wireline protocol (ADSL2+ and VDSL2, including bonding,
GPON, and Active Ethernet) and any physical media (copper or fiber).
Dan McCrary, director of business development, TV, Video & Music
Platforms Business, Microsoft, said: "While our initial success with
Mediaroom has centered on the major tier-1 Telcos, we have since
optimized the platform to make it more accessible and compelling for
operators and deployments of all sizes. By partnering with
communications equipment providers such as Calix we are able to scale
our deployment capability and provide specialist expertise to the
broader range of customers choosing to deliver advanced TV services with
Microsoft Mediaroom."
"This year at TelcoTV, Calix is once again raising the bar by
demonstrating the most advanced home entertainment experience on the
show floor across an access infrastructure that offers the most
deployment flexibility," said Geoff Burke, Calix senior director of
corporate marketing. "Calix has created a clear picture of how service
providers can redefine the integrated home experience, and implement it
with flexible access solutions. Most importantly, our customers
deploying Microsoft Mediaroom over the Calix Unified Access
Infrastructure, which range from small rural IOCs to major regional
ILECs, have communicated that this combination is cost-effectively
providing them with the differentiated services they need to compete and
win."
About Calix
Calix is a leading provider of
communications access systems and related software that enable
communications service providers to connect to their residential and
business subscribers. Calix enables communications service providers to
provide a wide range of revenue-generating services, from basic voice
and data to advanced broadband services, over legacy and next-generation
access networks. Calix access innovation helps these companies to
transform their networks from circuit to packet, narrowband to
broadband, and copper to fiber. Calix has deployed millions of ports and
tens of thousands of systems into hundreds of service provider networks
throughout North America. For more information, visit the Calix website
at www.calix.com.
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