Scientific Atlanta has provided headend gear for T-Com Montenegro’s (Crnogorski Telekom) IPTV service that is slated to launch later this year.
The service is expected to deliver up to 60 channels of SD digital programming using a variety of Scientific Atlanta equipment, including more than 60 D9034 MPEG-4 AVC standard-definition encoders, nearly 70 Model D9844 and D9850 receivers, analog terrestrial receivers, network adaptation equipment, and the company’s ROSA Network and Element Management and Control System.
The new headend will help enable T-Com Montenegro, one of the T family companies of Deutsche Telecom, to acquire video content via satellite, off-air or from other networks, descramble the signals, encode the video streams using MPEG-e Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and stream IP video to its customers.
“Flexibility and rapid time-to-market with our new video service are critical elements for T-Com Montenegro as we enter the video marketplace and launch this exciting new service in 2007,” said Vuk Gojnic, director of network development at T-Com Montenegro, in a statement. “We want our customers to be among the 4.5 million IPTV viewers in Europe that research indicates will be enjoying this high-quality service by the end of this year.”