NTELOS Readies for IPTV Service with Skystream

Telecom carriers and service providers are constantly looking to improve their service offerings to retain and attract customers. Today, a large part of that is offering converged video and data services. But to do this, they must have a cost-effective migration plan for moving their networks to an IP-based architecture and shortening their time to market. That means they must find a suitable technology partner.
NTELOS Inc., a Waynesboro, VA-based communications provider, has found its partner — it has selected SkyStream as its video head end partner for a new IPTV service over Fiber-to-thePremise (FTTP) for its Virginia customer base.
Skystream has expertise in video and data content delivery infrastructure and will help NTELOS add new capabilities to its network to reliably deliver additional services and content. NTELOS has built a “super video head end” center, where it has deployed the SkyStream Mediaplex-20 video head end. NTELOS is distributing the MPEG-2 feed over a 10-Gigabit Metro Ethernet ring to several regional offices and will deploy the SkyStream iPlex edge video head end system for additional aggregation and distribution. NTELOS will be able to offer local channels, advertising and other programming from these regional centers.