Visabeira Global Selects GoBackTV for Advanced Video Services
Portuguese holding company Visabeira Global has selected GoBackTV's RetroVue platform for VoD, timeshifting, cable IPTV, and middleware. The first installation is TV Cabo Angola.
Menlo Park, CA, March 25, 2009 --(PR.com)-- GoBackTV, the innovative supplier of digital video headend and edge solutions, today announced that its RetroVue® system has been chosen by Visabeira Global to provide advanced video services, starting with their subsidiary TV Cabo Angola. TV Cabo Angola is a joint venture between Visabeira Global and Angola Telecom, and is Angola’s only cable TV operator. It was the first operator in Africa to deliver a fully digitized cable television system, and uses cutting-edge technical resources to provide digital television, HDTV, and broadband internet services.
“We are excited by the versatility of the system,” said Paulo Varela, CEO of Visabeira Global. “Each operator has a unique set of needs, and RetroVue gives us a great range of adaptability. We can use the same suite of products for cable, cable IPTV, copper, and fiber.”
RetroVue components selected by Visabeira include the StreamCache™ for video on demand (VoD) and television time shifting; the GigaQAM® IP for cable IPTV and switched multicast; the ASI-to-Gigabit Ethernet IP Streamer for demultiplexing and protocol conversion; and the RetroVue Application Server for MyRV Portal middleware, service management, and cable IPTV resource management.
“We are proud to work with a partner of Visabeira’s stature and reputation”, commented Dave Baran, president of GoBackTV. “The breadth and depth of their expertise is impressive, as is their commitment to design excellence and quality.”
GoBackTV will be demonstrating features of the RetroVue system, including timeshifted TV, cable IPTV, and the MyRV Portal middleware at the IPTV World Forum, March 25-27, 2009, in London at the London Olympia Exhibition Centre, Stand #322.
About GoBackTV - GoBackTV delivers the digital headend solutions that television service operators need to rapidly introduce, quickly scale, and efficiently support the newest generation of digital video services. GoBackTV's RetroVue suite of products enables operators to cost-effectively support a wealth of stream-based personal-TV applications, including IPTV over cable, switched broadcast, time shifting, VoD, Startover, Lookback, and network PVR. For more information about GoBackTV and its next generation TV solutions, please visit www.gobacktv.com.
About Visabeira Global – Visabeira Global SGPS, SA is one of five sub-holdings of the Portuguese holding company Grupo Visabeira SGPS, SA, with responsibilities for four distinct business areas: Telecommunications, Energy, Technologies, and Construction, For more information, please visit www.visabeiraglobal.com.
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“We are excited by the versatility of the system,” said Paulo Varela, CEO of Visabeira Global. “Each operator has a unique set of needs, and RetroVue gives us a great range of adaptability. We can use the same suite of products for cable, cable IPTV, copper, and fiber.”
RetroVue components selected by Visabeira include the StreamCache™ for video on demand (VoD) and television time shifting; the GigaQAM® IP for cable IPTV and switched multicast; the ASI-to-Gigabit Ethernet IP Streamer for demultiplexing and protocol conversion; and the RetroVue Application Server for MyRV Portal middleware, service management, and cable IPTV resource management.
“We are proud to work with a partner of Visabeira’s stature and reputation”, commented Dave Baran, president of GoBackTV. “The breadth and depth of their expertise is impressive, as is their commitment to design excellence and quality.”
GoBackTV will be demonstrating features of the RetroVue system, including timeshifted TV, cable IPTV, and the MyRV Portal middleware at the IPTV World Forum, March 25-27, 2009, in London at the London Olympia Exhibition Centre, Stand #322.
About GoBackTV - GoBackTV delivers the digital headend solutions that television service operators need to rapidly introduce, quickly scale, and efficiently support the newest generation of digital video services. GoBackTV's RetroVue suite of products enables operators to cost-effectively support a wealth of stream-based personal-TV applications, including IPTV over cable, switched broadcast, time shifting, VoD, Startover, Lookback, and network PVR. For more information about GoBackTV and its next generation TV solutions, please visit www.gobacktv.com.
About Visabeira Global – Visabeira Global SGPS, SA is one of five sub-holdings of the Portuguese holding company Grupo Visabeira SGPS, SA, with responsibilities for four distinct business areas: Telecommunications, Energy, Technologies, and Construction, For more information, please visit www.visabeiraglobal.com.
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