French cable television operator – Company Numericable builds one of the first in the world of networks for the delivery of three-dimensional video on demand (VOD) high definition (HD) on a platform of Cisco ® Content Delivery System. Initially Numericable found this platform to support video on demand, TV with instant channel change, and the exchange of user-generated content. Award-winning series of Cisco content delivery will provide the company Numericable innovation, flexibility and scalability needed to deliver three-dimensional video three and a half million viewers.
The new draft Numericable, aimed at introducing a three-dimensional high-definition video will become one of the most ambitious in the market. Numericable transform their networks into a powerful media network all-IPOptimized to support multimedia applications. This would introduce new services to HD 3-D VOD, superior to anything available on the market today three-dimensional video services.
It is expected that the three-dimensional television (3-D TV) will become the new standard for home entertainment. According to media research company Screen Digest, by 2014 22 percent of TVs sold will maintain a three-dimensional video. According to the same company, already this year, all major producers of television equipment to market model three-dimensional television. For services 3-D TV with high resolution is needed bandwidth, equivalent to two traditional streams of high definition television with 1080 lines of progressive scan, that is, at least 15 Mbps. Fiber-optic network Numericable has everything you need to do so.
New three-dimensional-based services platform Cisco Content Delivery System will appear in the network Numericable the end of 2010. More information about the availability and pricing will be published on the eve of the yield of these services to market.
Specialists Unit Cisco Advanced Services have adopted the Cisco Content Delivery System in the network Numericable over a year ago. In addition, they provided the company Numericable consulting, network design and development of a promising architecture to help customers configure their media networks to support new services.
Cisco Content Delivery System is a networking platform for the delivery of personalized video services. It is superior to conventional services and VOD streaming video on the Internet that can unify the delivery of a wide range of services from various sources on the set of heterogeneous devices (televisions, computers and mobile terminals) in any place and at any time. It supported a demonstration of TV programs with a time shift, personal video recording, inserting targeted advertising, wholesale transfer of content (CDN), and now the three-dimensional video on demand.
As part of Cisco Content Delivery System includes unique technology that allows companies Numericable satisfy the demands of three-dimensional content, high-resolution bandwidth and service quality by optimizing bandwidth usage and storage systems. The distributed architecture of this solution is highly scalable, which allows to enter the content once and deliver it to anywhere in real time on-demand subscriber.
The Cisco tightly integrates video and IP. This enables us to deliver new services Numericable, making relatively small investments in infrastructure before the commercial launch of new services in the second half of 2010.
New services have the support of the Alliance of 3D-HD (open group together suppliers of television services sharing a common goal – the adoption and dissemination of standards for high-definition video and high-quality three-dimensional television). Cisco from the very beginning involved in the work of the alliance along with the producers of television receivers and the consoles, software developers and organizations involved in distribution.
“This three-dimensional high-definition video – this is a new paradigm of television services, comparable with the transition from black and white to color television – said Jean-Christophe Dessange (Jean-Christophe Dessange), responsible for new media services to Cisco in Europe. – Full three-dimensional high definition television – a brand new visual experience for viewers. Ambitious plans Numericable make it an ideal partner for Cisco: We also want to completely change the traditional idea of TV. ”
“Platform Cisco Content Delivery System – the most important condition for realization of three-dimensional services to a new generation of high-resolution – vice president Numericable Group Dormal Pascal (Pascal Dormal), responsible for business development of the company. – Flexibility, scalability, and” reasonableness “of this platform will allow us to develop our services. “
