Avail-TVN, a North America-based independent digital media services company, recently announced that IntegraTelecom, Inc. is its 100th IPTV (News - Alert) customer. IntegraTelecom joins company’s list of IPTV affiliates, in order to deliver linear IPTV services to their subscribers.

 

Integra Telecom (News - Alert) offers voice, data and Internet communications to thousands of business and carrier customers in eight Western states, such as Arizona, California, Idaho, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and Washington. It owns and operates a fiber-optic network consisting of eight metropolitan access networks, a nationally acclaimed Internet and data network and a 4,700-mile high-speed long haul network.

 

Officials with Avail-TVN said in a press release that IntegraTelecom, in partner with the company, has joined service providers across North America, including 38 former IP-Prime affiliates.

 

Initially, Integra's digital television services will be limited to its current local exchange carrier business, which services more than 14,000 residential customers in select areas of the suburban Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area.

 

Avail-TVN in collaboration with its integration partner, Dascom, will be and executing Integra's digital video services launch, which is scheduled for the first quarter of 2010.

 

Over the last year, Avail-TVN transitioned more than 75 percent of the former SES (News - Alert) Americom IP-Prime customer base to the Avail-TVN platform, as part of company’s focus on IPTV deployments. Now, IntegraTelecom has joined these former IP-Prime customers, as well as other innovative telecom providers in partnership with Avail-TVN, in order to drive IPTV deployments across North America.

 

Ramu Potarazu, CEO of Avail-TVN, said during a keynote address at TelcoTV

that 2009 has been an exciting year for the IPTV market. Moreover, consumers’ whish for TV everywhere, at anytime, is driving service provider need for sophisticated digital media solutions.

 

By partnering with members of the IPTV ecosystem such as equipment providers, resellers, and content owners, Avail-TVN offers programming from over 200 content owners to more than 250 cable, satellite, FTTH and telecom service providers. It delivers a comprehensive suite of video services for the IPTV market, which includes MPEG-4 linear IPTV and video on demand, officials said.

 

The Avail-TVN solution encompasses a complete line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, combined with thousands of hours VOD content, such as movies from major studio, cable and broadcast networks, premium cable networks and adult content.