Nagra announced that Vodafone España is its first customer for its QuickStart Hybrid system in Europe. Vodafone Spain is using Nagra’s technology to create a service that will combine over-the-top (OTT) content and digital terrestrial television (DTT) channels.
Vodafone Spain is currently using Nagra’s end-to-end QuickStart Hybrid to enable both its fixed line and mobile customers to access OTT content from Canal+ Yomvi. Delivery is multi-screen; subscribers can access content on TVs, PCs, or mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Vodaphone Spain plans to launch DTT channels later this year.
Vodafone Box – the combined OTT/DTT service, relies onCanal+ Yomvi for live TV, subscription VOD, transactional VOD, catch-up TV and a new user interface bundled in a SmarDTV HD set-top box.
“We wanted a technology that would allow us to bring premium services and applications to our customers quickly while giving us room to grow and innovate,” said Isaac Mendoza, head of TV and digital services at Vodafone Spain. “Nagra provides us with a solution that enables value-added services without compromising security or the consumer experience.”
Nagra’s QuickStart integrated packages (Broadcast, OTT, Hybrid, Media Server & Gateway) encompass all the major components that are required in order to deliver a range of value-added services and TV features including UI-UEX, EPG, live TV, PVR, nPVR, catch-up, live TV pause and rewind, start-over, VOD, companion screen interactivity, social TV and applications, Nagra said. Its components are Nagra anyCAST content protection and studio-approved DRM, OpenTV 5 HTML5 connectware, Nagra’s Gravity Edge reference user interface and Nagra MediaLive Multiscreen, integrated in a SmarDTV HD set-top box.
Vodafone Spain’s services include voice, messaging, mobile data and fixed broadband services. As of March, the company claimed 13.4 million mobile customers and more than 1 million fixed broadband customers.
