Ruckus Wireless says that it has been chosen by Portugal’s Sonaecom to offer wi-fi connectivity for the IPTV system it launched last year.
Ruckus Wireless has its MediaFlex system for delivering wi-fi video with no packet loss, on sale or on trial at 90 operators all over the world and the system is considered the most effective way to get a TV signal around a home wirelessly. It is more of an entire system solution than the Apple TV product launched last week, and includes the monitoring and resending of packets around the home network.
Launched in April 2006, Clix SmarTV was the first IPTV service offered in Portugal. It remains the only IPTV service available to Portugal’s 3.6 million households.
Sonaecom delivers IPTV over an ADSL2+ at 12 and 24 Mbps for €30 and €40 a month respectively ($40 and $54).
Sonaecom’s system uses Orca RigGHTv middleware, Amino and Kreatel set-top boxes, Tandberg’s SkyStream encoders, Kasenna’s video server, and Widevine content protection, over a network architecture built by Huawei. It is already deployed in Lisbon and Porto and will reach the rest of the major Portuguese cities throughout 2007.