Microsoft Names IPTV-Technology Partners
Software Giant Teams Up with Vendors on Microsoft IPTV Edition
By Multi Channel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 4/16/2007 1:41:00 PM
Microsoft IPTV Edition isn’t all Microsoft: The software giant named the new top technology suppliers behind its Internet-protocol-TV platform at NAB2007 in Las Vegas Monday.
The company’s new partners on Microsoft IPTV Edition are:
• Server processors: AMD and Intel are providing chip-set solutions and storage infrastructures.
• Encoding solutions: Thomson Grass Valley’s standard-definition encoders.
• Set-top boxes: Pirelli Broadband Solutions will provide set-tops based on single-chip technology, both standard-definition and HD, supporting features including local video recording, recorded-services playback, live-TV pause and time-shift recording.
• Servers and storage: Sun Microsystems’ Sun Fire X64 servers.
Other vendors already working with Microsoft include systems integrator and infrastructure provider Alcatel-Lucent; set-top-box manufacturers Cisco Systems’ Scientific Atlanta, Motorola, Philips and Tatung; chip manufacturers Sigma Design and STMicroelectronics; server-solution providers Hewlett-Packard and IBM; and encoder providers SA, Harmonic, Motorola and Tandberg Television.
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