At NAB 2016 in Las Vegas this week, ContentWise launched its Content Personalization System, which enables operators to provide personalized pay TV, OTT, VOD and streaming services. ContentWise 5.4 will be the first TV UX personalization API expressly designed for multiscreen developers and designers, according to the company.
Features in the release include a UX API “to simplify the development of personalized TV apps and provide the operator with a single point of control over the viewer’s experience.” Also, a new automated ‘user cold start’ feature is said to offer a personalized set of collections and discovery options within a few seconds of a new viewer coming on-board. It also includes support for automatic microgenres generation and personalization. ContentWise reportedly builds thousands of unique collections by automatically clustering content and then matches them to individual viewers in real time.
Wind, which offers mobile and fixed telephony as well as broadband in Italy, will deploy Nokia’s ultra-broadband fixed access technology for the rollout of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) services in the cities of Bologna and Turin, going beyond 100 megabits per second (Mbps). Specifically, Nokia will deploy a mix of ultra-broadband access technologies, including GPON.
Birch Communications announced that its latest fiber network footprint expansion in Q1 2016 has added 130,000 buildings bringing the total to more than 550,000 Metro-Fiber buildings. These latest additions reportedly mark the fifth major Metro-Fiber network expansion in the past 12 months and another step toward the 1,000,000 building goal set by the company for 2016.
