It’s not like we need yet another IPTV middleware company (there were once over 30) and it’s not that Denmark’s Nordija AS and its fokusOn software is actually new, but according to Telecom Paper it has landed a major deal with Smile Content in Denmark.
The Scandinavians almost single handedly invented IPTV, with perhaps a spattering of help from French and English companies, long before the US even considered it to be possible, so it’s not too surprising that the country has more than its fair share of IPTV middleware companies.
But just as Sweden’s Dreampark got off the ground by ousting Israel’s Orca middleware at Norway’s iVision, it appears that Dreampark has suffered the same fate at Smile.
Nordija, which sports a widget based IPTV suite, is a private Danish software company, which got into IPTV in 2001, and claims that it has 200,000 viewers, which is not a large number, not really. Smile became a Dreampark customer in 2007 and it now looks to have been ousted by the Nordija system.
Dreampark’s DreamGallery itself has about 7 customers in Scandinavia including Norway’s RingNett, Canal Digital, Dansk Bredb’nd, FastTV, iVisjon, and Viasat and has also picked up TUS Telekom in Slovenia and Magnet in Ireland, but no real Tier one accounts.
The Nodija system uses separate widgets for the creation of online shops, broadcast TV, DVR, VoD, a mosaic interface, an advertising campaign manager, private channel creation and screen overlays