Huawei landed an end to end deal to bring IPTV to Pakistan through operator PTCL this week, with the details slipping out through a release from conditional access specialist Irdeto, which provides the content protection on the deal.
PTCL says it will offer service to up to 20,000 subscribers during the first half of 2007, although that sounds pretty ambitious to us, on a system using Huawei’s middleware, VoD servers and set tops.
‘Irdeto and Huawei entered into a strategic partnership earlier this year to jointly provide end-to-end solutions into the worldwide IPTV market, and the new deal outlined today with PTCL is projected to be just the first of many IPTV advances generated by that partnership,’ said Graham Kill, Chief Executive Officer of Irdeto.
Irdeto also said this week that it has provided the content security at Manthan Broadband Services, a cable operator in India, in the city of Kolkata, the State of West Bengal and Eastern India. This is an upgrade from an analog cable system that Irdeto supplied, to a digital version.