Netanya, Israel & Medellín - Colombia – 7th of December, 2009–BitBand and Grupo Union announce a successful deployment of IPTV Catch-Up services to UNE Telecommunications’ subscribers in Colombia based on BitBand video CDN solution. The deployment is led by Grupo Unión as the system integrator, utilizing BitBand’s advanced Content Delivery Network solutions.
UNE Telecommunications is currently the largest IPTV Company in Latin America, serving more than 60.000 IPTV subscribers. Its offering to subscribers includes TV and video entertainment packages, data and telephony services.
“Implementing BitBand’s Catch-Up TV allows us to improve our viewers’ quality of experience and an immediate access to content of their choice,” explained UNE Telecommunications. “An additional important advantage we gained is the ability to easily control distributed networks from a single location, using the Maestro management system, which we implemented in a very short time in Bogota and Medellín”
"Our successful collaboration with BitBand allows us to offer IPTV operators a comprehensive solution for managing and delivering content to their subscribers in the reliable manner,” said Valentina Villegas, IPTV Projects Manager, Grupo Union.
"Relying on our experience gained through worldwide deployments with leading IPTV players, we continue to provide advanced Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions which are user-centric in terms of application offering.” "Our cooperation with Grupo Union offers scalable IPTV solutions, which are a perfect fit for operators in emerging IPTV markets, allowing quick introduction of new services", said Michael Katznelson, VP Sales, BitBand.
BitBand CDN is composed of BitBand MaestroTM, an automated cross-platform content distribution and management suite, BitBand VisionTM, highly scalable recording, streaming and storage video servers and BitBand QualiCTVTM, a boosted broadcast TV QoE solution. BitBand CDN enables high quality efficient delivery of video content to all three types of screen across all relevant networks – IPTV, Cable, Internet and Mobile. For additional information on BitBand CDN, QualiCTV and other BitBand products and solutions, please e-mail sales@bitband.com or visit www.bitband.com.
About UNE-EPM Telecomunicaciones
UNE-EPM Telecomunicaciones is a public company, fully owned by Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) S.A. UNE-EPM provides information and communications technologies to its customers throughout Colombia, including fixed and public telephony, long distance calls, prepaid cards for Colombia and international calls, data transmission, Internet, content services and TV subscriptions. Its asset and sales positions it as one of the largest companies in Colombia and its longstanding experience and support provide a competitive advantage for delivery of high quality services and the most advanced technology. For more information about UNE, visit www.une.com.co
About Unión Eléctrica
Unión Eléctrica is an organization that offers integral solutions in the design, supplying and installation for the telecommunications, energy, automatization and electronic security sectors among others. Our solutions in telecommunications allow us to connect our world with the universe, transmitting, connecting, processing, managing and storing data; both voice and video, so that the people are always in contact with each other. All our solutions are integrated, and supported with a motivated and enabled staff, plus the outpost technological infrastructure, with both active and passive equipment of a complete generation, with specialized precision and testing equipment. High service quality that adapts to the necessities of your specific company and the endorsement of our experience that guarantees the high quality of our work. Please visit www.uniongr.com
About BitBand
BitBand is a leading provider of cross platform video content delivery network (CDN) solutions for Service Providers who wish to unify the management of the content across all networks for efficient delivery to all three screens. Its patent pending technology is focused in the areas of video content management and delivery and enhanced quality of experience for both On Demand TV services as well as Live Broadcasted channels over IP networks. The company's solutions are targeted at large scale deployments targeting private subscribers and are optimized for hybrid and distributed network architectures.
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For more information contact:
BitBand Technologies
media@bitband.com
www.bitband.com
V. Valentina Villegas M.
Ing. Soporte y Ventas Telecomunicaciones
Tel: (574) 3255555 Ext. 5036
www.uniongr.com
Medellín - Colombia