Espial , a supplier of TV software, has reportedly signed a reseller agreement with Power & Telephone Supply Company, an independent distributor of material for the telecommunications and cable TV industries.

 

Under the agreement, Power & Tel (News - Alert) will resell the Espial MediaBase Video-On-Demand platform to service providers in the United States. Espial (News - Alert) MediaBase is now included in their end-to-end IPTV solution to U.S. customers.

 

Espial MediaBase is a content delivery platform providing software platform for the management, distribution and delivery of on-demand video content for media services. The platform delivers VOD, network PVR/RS-DVR, personal network PVR, StartOver TV, pay-per-view and many other on-demand applications.

 

"The Espial MediaBase VOD platform provides a key differentiator for our IPTV (News - Alert) Solution,” said Jim Drain, vice president, North American sales for Power & Tel, in a statement. “It is a cost-effective solution for enabling our customers to offer lucrative VOD and Timeshift TV services in both SD and HD formats. For our North American Telco partners, Espial MediaBase is easy to implement, operate and manage. It has an excellent track record with dozens of deployments serving millions of IPTV subscribers."

 

Reportedly several North American IPTV operators have deployed Espial MediaBase. Espial claims that this solution is a turn-key VOD solution with easy-to-use management tools, automated content workflow and pre-integration with a wide range of set-top boxes, digital rights management and middleware.

 

"We're pleased to work with Power & Tel and their Telco customers to implement VOD services quickly and cost effectively," said Larry Roberts, director of North American Sales, Espial, in a statement. "North America is a very exciting market for VOD - it is quickly becoming a must have service offering for Telcos to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving market."