Viaccess and Orca Roll Out Hybrid Solution

by Alan Harten

The French Telecom company Viaccess, provider of IPTV middleware and applications, has said that it will introduce a hybrid pre-integrated end-to-end version of its solution that is used by open internet for IPTV service providers, content aggregators and broadcasters.

This new hybrid IPTV solution will combine digital video broadcasting (DVB) channels, with several interactive internet services including video on demand (VOD) downloads, catch-up TV, push-VOD and client personal video recording (cPVR).

Viaccess and Orca chose Amsterdam’s IBC to show off their new hybrid platform baby.

The new system is designed to encompass the next-generation of TV services without the limitation of clients’ current IP managed network perimeters.

The hybrid is also intended to level the playing field between other digital TV providers with on-demand and catch-up TV services which would allow viewers to access content at a time that suits them, rather than waiting for a scheduled broadcast to begin, and they will do this without the requirement of an underlying IPTV network.

This move comes just 4 months after Viaccess took over Orca and the company says that this hybrid IPTV solution will not be their last innovative roll out from the new combined company.

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