Midwest TelNet Selects Latens CA to Provide Secure IPTV Solutions to 13 ILECs.BELFAST, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. -- Latens: Tight Integration With Minerva and Amino, Proven Security, Flexibility and Scalability Cited by Midwest TelNet As Key Reasons For Selection Latens Systems, the leading provider of 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. Conditional Access, today announced that Midwest TelNet, a consortium of thirteen IOCs in Southwest Wisconsin, has selected Latens FCAS FCAS Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society FCAS Familial Cold Autoinflammatory Syndrome FCAS Frequency Control Ancillary Services (electric power industry) FCAS Foam Core Addicts Society FCAS Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Students Conditional Access solution to secure its advanced IPTV services. FCAS will integrate with AmiNET110 and AmiNET500 set-top boxes from Amino, the leading IPTV set-top box supplier and with Minerva's iTV Manager. Midwest TelNet can now offer its subscribers secured video services that include Pay-TV, High Definition (HD), personal video recording (PVR See DVR. ), video-on-demand (VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand ), and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD SVOD Subscription Video on Demand SVOD Stacked Volumetric Optical Disk SVOD Subscription Voice on Demand ) as MPEG-2 streams. "We chose Latens because they have an enviable track record in real-world deployments and offer a complete and flexible solution that satisfies our ambitious service offer in the short and long term," stated Rodney Olson, General Manager of Vernon Telephone, a member company of the Midwest TelNet consortium. "The close collaboration between Latens and Amino enables Midwest TelNet to deploy its advanced IPTV solutions of choice," said Roy Kirsopp, VP & GM at Amino. "In addition, the integration of Latens FCAS with the AmiNET110 and AmiNET500 widens the choice for all IPTV operators and removes the pre-launch integration required". "Latens FCAS solution enables Midwest TelNet to have a central Conditional Access solution that interfaces with multiple iTV Managers and hence reduces Midwest's cost of encryption," said Dean Kashlan, GM and VP at Latens. "Our tight integration with Minerva's iTV Manager and Amino's AmiNET family of set-top boxes is testament to Latens' commitment to offer optimal CA solutions to the IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= market". For Midwest TelNet info: visit www.mwt.com For Amino Communications info: visit www.aminocom.com For Latens Systems info: visit: www.latens.com |
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