MARKHAM, Ont. and REGINA — Enghouse Networks today announced it is partnering with Regina’s Access Communications Co-operative to provide a fully hosted, next-generation TV service for small and medium-sized Canadian service providers.
Enghouse Networks says its TV solution offers operators a state-of-the-art TV service for their customers with “low start-up costs, swift time to revenue and low deployment risk”, according to the company’s press release.
“We are excited to partner with Enghouse Networks to deliver a secure and customer-driven video solution,” said Jeffrey De Sarno, CTO of Access Communications, in the press release. “As a co-operative, we are committed to delivering exceptional entertainment services to the communities we serve. We now provide our subscribers with a comprehensive TV experience, and this initiative enables other operators nationwide to offer video solutions that are just as robust and secure.”
The solution, available to pay-TV carriers across the country, offers operators access to more than 200 channels of live TV, catch-up and restart services, network DVR and comprehensive, on-demand content. The highly configurable service ensures the widest range of market segments can be easily customized for each carriers’ branding and customers, adds the release.
“The Enghouse solution offers operators the ability to target market segments with high value TV services,” said Sunil Diaz, general manager of Enghouse Networks, in the release. “Through the partnership with Access Communications, we can offer these services at unmatched time to revenue and low deployment risk. We already have a number of operators signed up for the service and expect others to join in the coming months.”
De Sarno added, in a call today with Cartt.ca, that the new system is all-Canadian, end to end, having deployed technology from Vancouver-based Wisi and Victoria/Saskatoon-based Vecima, all brought together by Markham’s Enghouse, to make it work. “I think that’s pretty impressive,” he said.
Plus, this makes it quite different than other next generation pay TV solutions which are powered by Comcast’s X1 or Texas-based Mediakind, for example, where transport, encoding, transcoding, channel lineups, etc. for the large Canadian carriers, are all done outside of the country.
