New Unified Orange TV
March 19, 2012
Orange has launched ‘la nouvelle TV d’Orange’, a next-generation subscription TV service which allows Orange to upgrade its IPTV service with a state-of-the-art user-experience and prepare the infrastructure for OTT video, multiple screens and unlimited content. ‘la nouvelle TV d’Orange’ boasts a new user interface, which includes VoD, Catch-Up TV, content discovery and recommendations, EPG, PVR, self-developed applications and more.
Viaccess and its subsidiary Orca Interactive, a pioneer in IPTV middleware, are providing the unified service platform which includes the Service Delivery Platform, Content Discovery platform, Conditional Access System and native multi-screen solution. It is adapted for IPTV, OTT delivery and Hybrid, combining different delivery modes.
Beginning in late November 2011, Orange began migrating its customer base of IPTV customers to Viaccess and Orca’s Unified Platform. Migration of satellite customers will follow. Overall, Orange has over 5.1 million customers to its TV services in Europe as of December 31st 2011.
To date, approximately 400,000 subscribers have joined the new service platform in less than three months.