Siemens Business Services deploys Anevia for BBC IPTV services

Siemens BS deploys Anevia for BBC IPTV services

PARIS, France,- September 27th, 2007 –

Anevia, the IPTV technology provider and Siemens Business Services today announced the deployment of their solutions in BBC head offices in United Kingdom.

Siemens chose Anevia’s innovative technology for the introduction of an IPTV service for the BBC. The service offers BBC staff contact with BBC and other channels output at their desktop and through IP set-top boxes. Uses include the distribution of Arabic TV channels for the new World Service Arabic News channel launching later this year. The service offers more than 100 Radio and TV channels including Worldwide and English TV channels (economy, news, sports…).

Distribution could not be easier with an IPTV client as a standard component of the BBC desktop and an easy to use web interface for channels and ordering set top boxes. The solution is highly configurable and scaleable with opportunities for local enhancements to the service.

Anevia IPTV products deployed by Siemens are the Flamingo series for broadcast of satellite and DTT channels, and Sunbird for broadcast of internal channels from analog signals. Flamingo keeps the satellite video quality and streams it directly over IP, without encoding or transcoding. It enables a cost effective head-end solution as well as optimal video quality.

«Anevia is delighted to have been choosen and deployed by BBC and Siemens. This order involves a large number of Flamingos for each site implemented, and highlights Anevia top-level and carrier grade quality» stated Damien Lucas, co-Founder of Anevia.

After a first successful deployment in London, Anevia head end is being extended to BBC offices in Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast and Birmingham in the next few weeks.

About Anevia:
Anevia is a telecom equipment supplier, specialising in the video element of Triple Play – Video on Demand, IPTV and digital recording.

Unlike traditional electronic solutions, the originality of Anevia’s approach is in having opted for an innovative software solution in its devices, which combine broadband and television. As a result, Anevia has been able to develop VOD servers and DVB to IP streaming servers that are more compact, cheaper and quicker to deploy. Set up in 2003 by members of the team that developed the VideoLAN VLC media player, Anevia is a French company, whose main investor is CDC Enterprises Innovation. Anevia’s products have been selected by a large number of telecom, xDSL and FTTH operators, broadcasters and system integrators worldwide.