Published in Telecomworldwire on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 at 12:22 GMT
Copyright (C) 2009, M2 Communications

Envivio Inc, a provider of IP video convergence solutions for operators and broadcasters, today announced that BH Telecom, a telecoms operator in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has begun the rollout of a new IPTV service, using a complete headend solution from Envivio which has been built by systems integrator Smart Com.

The company said that the deployment will enable BH Telecom to offer a full suite of live and on-demand channels complete with electronic program guide, PVR and other interactive features to its 2 million subscribers.

The Envivio IPTV headend includes the 4Caster C4 high quality, three screens encoder/transcoder paired with 4Stream IP Gateways and comprehensive monitoring and redundancy protection from the 4Manager management system, providing an efficient, all-digital, IP-based signal flow that can directly ingest channels from any source and deliver the highest quality video at low bit rates that enable the service to optimise its reach and channel count, according to Envivio.

No financial details for the deal were disclosed.