IMAKE Reaches Entitlement and Subscriber Management Milestone for VOD and IPTV Solutions.IMAKE's OpenVision Entitlement An individual's right to receive a value or benefit provided by law. Commonly recognized entitlements are benefits, such as those provided by Social Security or Workers' Compensation. Solution Supports Over 11 Million STBs of VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand and IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. Services BETHESDA, Md. -- IMAKE, the major provider of solutions and services that enable the seamless delivery and management of interactive and On Demand services, announced that it reached a new company milestone as of December, 2006. IMAKE's OpenVision software now supports the entitlement of VOD and IPTV services to more than 11 million subscribers in the US. IMAKE's Chief Technology Officer, Armando Martinez said, "We are extremely proud to reach this remarkable milestone at IMAKE. Not only has the IMAKE OpenVision product suite become the only entitlement server in the world supporting more than 11 million Set Top Boxes, but it is entitling these products and services with ad targeting, upselling, self care and privacy rules in mind. This new milestone is a significant achievement for IMAKE, and it once again demonstrates that our scalable, open standards-based products continue to meet the evolving needs of both service and content providers." Entitling is the process of managing and processing subscriber requests, for premium services, on-demand content, such as video, music or games or signing up for a new service offering. Entitling provides the service provider and the content provider with the peace of mind that all services are protected with one or more Conditional Access Conditional Access (acronymized CA) is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to this content. The term is commonly used in relation to digital television systems, most notably satellite television. solutions. Entitlement provides a solution to enable service providers with a method to offer today's demanding analog or digital video and on-demand products and services in a simple or complex offering. Billing solutions in today's world require a real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. front end entitlement solution so that: 1) on-demand offers are supported, 2) complex offers of both on-demand and services are supported, 3) privacy, and 4) highly available real time access may be provided to your valuable subscribers while supporting new features such as upsell and self care. OpenVision 4.2 Entitlement Solution includes the following key features and highlights: * Real Time Entitlement to multiple video and navigation servers - provide an open systems solution that provides real time interfaces to varying video servers, navigation and conditional access server types. * Privacy minded profiling for targeted ad insertion insertion n. the addition of language at a place within an existing typed or written document, which is always suspect unless initialled by all parties. - provides the ability to maintain discrete profiling on services and purchasing habits of your subscribers while maintaining their privacy. * Self care enablement - provides the ability to build either a 'web enabled' self care portal or provide self care via the Navigation user interface or both. * Upsell products, services, and offers - target only the services and products a subscriber would desire and that your marketing team is promoting. * Highly available, highly scaleable - have peace of mind with a proven solution that has been deployed for 3+ years in multiple telco and cable companies. * Open Systems - APIs are provided at no charge and interfaces to any video server, any conditional access solution, and any navigation server will be supported. * Reporting capabilities - provide immediate at-a-glance access to purchase history, and usage statistics. The IMAKE OpenVision product suite is an open standards-based platform that supports broadcast, On Demand and IPTV content. Designed for use by cable television providers, telecommunications companies See telecom company. , and content providers, OpenVision adds an enhanced level of intelligence to the network to reduce errors, maximize productivity, and enable a new level of control and automation. For more information about the IMAKE OpenVision product suite, contact IMAKE at 301-896-9200, email info@imake.com or visit IMAKE online at www.imake.com. About IMAKE Software & Services, Inc. IMAKE is the major provider of open, intelligent solutions and integration services that enable the seamless delivery of broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). digital media, Video On Demand (VOD), Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. Television (IPTV), and digital media, to cable television providers, telecommunications companies, and content providers. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just Northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from , IMAKE solutions impact millions of users of broadband content across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . |
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