Mobile TV
Solutions for Mobile Communities

Summary
• About Us
• Our strengths
• The Mobile TV for MNO
• Solution Overview
• Key features
• Architecture
• Roadmap
• Case Studies
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About us
interact
• operates as a communication technology provider to support NetOp
in the creation, management and delivery of rich media contents. Our
field of action integrates the creation of innovative products and
services with on going research activities on converging media and the
development of middle-ware applications for Mobile TV, 3G Video, IPTV
and Net TV
• well-known for its open-minded business approach involving
international technology, partners, suppliers and most importantly
MNO with GSM operations in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and
Pakistan
• with more than 60 employees interact is serving a number of the
most prominent clients in nation and international telecommunication
and broadcasting industry around the world
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Our strengths
• innovation is our key to succeed
• all the proposed technologies are developed and
engineered in-house to assure:
• better customization,
• premium support,
• 360‐degree view on the technology and the business
behind it
• local presence in Italy (interact HQ) Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria,
Pakistan and Bangladesh in partnership with Arpu+
• first-hand international experiences with with world-class
NetOp (Vodafone, Telecom Italia, Orascom and
Hutchinson Wampoa)
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Solution overview

Solution Overview
Mobile TV is:
• a full set of tools for managing creation, delivery and
communication of contents within wireless networks
• the solution to enable MNO to rapidly build rich multimedia
service offerings
• Specifically targeted to fulfill personalized content creation and
consumption and foster the extension of Web 2.0 applications to
handheld devices
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Solution Overview
Key features:
• Flexible head-end to configure multiple Radio and TV Channels
coming from both terrestrial and satellite broadcasters
• Internet Radio Streaming to broadcast any free ShoutCast radio
• A content management solution to ingest and deliver archived
content such as news, sport and music
• Support of multiple high-performance multimedia codecs
including AVC (H.264), AAC+, MPEG-4 and Real Media at up to 30 frames
per second
• Best of breed Streamers for 3GPP and RealMedia
• WAP portal integration to present multimedia offering within the
MNO’s existing portal
High-End
Standard
Reusability
Scalability
Compliance
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Architecture (Phase One)
DVB-S/DVB-T ShoutCAST
Radio & TV Internet Radio
Encoders Streamer
Media
Archive
Streamer
back-up
Video System
(ingestion, management)
Off line contents
(Video & Audio)
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Architecture (Phase One)
The platform includes:
• 1 Super Headend to ingest live Radio & TV channels (DVB-S,
DVB-T, ...) and ShoutCAST Internet Radios:
• Digital Receivers
• Transcoder for 3GPP & RealMedia
• A/V programmable matrix
• 1 Network Area Storage to archived all the off-line contents
• 2 Video System Servers:
• for the ingestion of off-line contents coming from different
Content Providers
• for platform monitoring & management
• 2 Video Streamer (Helix 12 by Realnetworks)
• 1 Network Load Balancer

Roadmap
Phase One
Phase Two
Phase Three

Case Studies

Case studies
Wind Hellas (Greece)
Customer: Greece’s leading mobile provider,
over 4 million subscribers.
Project scope: To develop and implement a platform for wireless multimedia that broadcast over GPRS
network a variety of live and on demand contents.
Features:
Live Broadcasting
• TV channels streaming on customers’ mobile phones 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Automatically switches from live TV source to a “program not available” source for contents with
copyright constraints
Video On Demand
• Access to a wide variety of on demand contents authomatically ingested from different content
providers
• Extensive network support – delivered to 2.5 and 3G devices
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Case studies
Wind (Italy)
Customer: Italian telecom operator offering
converged fixed, mobile and Internet services, with
15,2 million subscribers.
Project scope: To develop and implement a “Videocentric” a platform for Mobile Video (GPRS and 3G),
Web and IPTV.
Features:
• Automatic ingestion and publishing workflow for rich-media contents of a wide variety of contents
coming from different content providers
• DRM integration within italian biggest Video Community for copyright protection and pay-per-view
business models
• Extensive network support - delivered to 2.5G, 3G, Web Browser and IPTV
The exposition time for MobileTV VoD increased in the last 3 years!
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Case studies
Mobinil
Customer: Egypt's biggest mobile operator,
over 14 million subscribers.
Project scope: To develop and implement
a technological platform for wireless multimedia that
broadcast over GPRS network 10 TV channels, 4 FM radios and a variety of on demand contents. Video streaming
and video download services enrich the Wap portal Mobinil Life with best up to date contents from channels such as
Al Jazeera News, Al Jazeera Sports Channel, El Arabia.
Features:
Mobile TV
• Live Broadcasting of 10 TV and 4 FM radio channels
• Automatic ingestion and publishing workflow of on demand contents coming from different providers
• Ready for GPRS and Edge
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Case studies
Djezzy
Customer: Algeria’s leading mobile provider,
over 13 million subscribers
Project scope: To build rich multimedia service
offerings and open OTA network to hundreds of
content providers, enterprise and communities via an
innovative multimedia mobile portal featuring
headline news, sports, games and mobile TV contents.
Features:
Mobile Portal
• Easy-to-use environment offering a wide set of live and on demand medias
• Portal design and management entirely based on X-manager content management system, which allows
content aggregation and service delivery
• interact Video System for multimedia management and mobile TV delivery
Mobile TV
• Live Broadcasting (streaming of 8 TV and 8 radio FM channels)
• Video on Demand
• Video Download GPRS/EDGE
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Case studies
Mobilink
Customer: Pakistan’s first mobile provider
with 28,57 million subscribers.
Project scope: To provide along with Arpu+
(Mobizone) a turnkey solution including
MobilinkTV, the mobile portal designed for
streaming services. The platform is capable of delivering live and on demand multimedia contents.
Features:
CMS integration and Mobile TV
• Easy-to-use environment offering a wide set of live and on demand medias
• Portal integration entirely based on X-manager content management system, which allows content
aggregation and service delivery
• interact Video System for multimedia management and mobile TV delivery leveraging MPEG-4 and 3GPP
mobile streaming
• Integration with the existing Web and WAP portal
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