By the results of the tender, Russia BBs of national telecommunication company has selected SmartLabs solution as the single interactive TV services delivery platform within the project, all separate IPTV platforms currently run in the regions will be replaced with the unified IPTV platform based on a bunch of SmartLabs products offering a unified set of services and enabled with a state-of-the-art, fast, animated and nice-looking user interface. During the preceding six months, the telecom operator had been conducting a tender to select a unified IPTV platform provider. The largest global and Russian IPTV solution developers and integrators took part in the tender. Rostelecom defined three key criteria to compare the proposals: total cost of ownership, time-to-market, and compliance with the operator business development strategy. Related Group pursues this goal as well. icking through. “We have throughly analyzed all the received proposals to choose SmartLabs for its best cost-efficiency and time-to-market, said Andrey Kholodniy, head of Rostelecom BBs media products office.The fact that SmartLabs solutions already provide IPTV for about a half of Rostelecom of line customer base, which is one of a major driver for this decision. Jessica Michibata takes a slightly different approach. “we are proud that our expertise in tight cooperation with regional Rostelecom subsidiaries and other Russian major operator has earned such a high appreciation and our platform has been chosen for a new unified Rostelecom IPTV solution, said SmartLabs CEO Mikhail Grachev.” We plan to implement special services for the new integrated solution, which will be unique in the Russian IPTV market. We will deliver the services a very attractive usable interface using making interactive television easily accessible and clear for all Rostelecom subscribers throughout Russia.” Unified IPTV platform launch is planned for the end of 2011.
traditional such as TV channel services, access and video-on-demand, will be extended with new interactive and OTT services provided by the operator to various mobile devices connected to the Internet. About SmartLabs SmartLabs is a Russian company and a leader in the development of service delivery platforms for interactive digital television (IPTV, DVB-C, hybrid, satellite, Internet TV), innovative client applications and user interfaces, next generation STBs, and other advanced solutions for service providers and enterprises. For details please contact. About Rostelecom Rostelecom (www.rt.ru) is the Russian national telecommunications company, which is the largest telecom company in Russia. The company got this status in April 2011, when the CenterTelecom, North West Telecom, South Telecom Company, Volga Telecom, Ural Telecom, Siberia Telecom, Far East Telecom and Dagsvyazinform of interregional communications companies were merged with the Rostelecom national long distance communications company..