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Lowering barriers to entry into the IPTV market
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- Secured up-time
- Decrease time to market
- Pay as you grow
Built on the Zignal digital entertainment delivery platform, Zignal Cloud lowers the total cost of ownership for service providers, provides predictability of costs, reduces technology risks and decreases time to market.
Transforming the IPTV market
Zignal Cloud promises to transform the market for IPTV solutions. Not only does it untangle legacy complexities of building service providers it also simplifies the operation going forward. One of the most important aspects of Zignal Cloud is the pay-as-you-grow model. This allows service providers to scale their operation when needed through on-line license acquisition.
Industria’s aim is to lower the barriers to entry for new players and easing the transition of existing operators. This initiative is based on the experience Industria has acquired in the IPTV market, where aggressive service providers are increasingly looking to outsource parts of their service infrastructure and focus more on the customer experience and content.
Offering Infrastructure as a Service is a necessary step for the industry to ensure enough breadth in the service offerings both in terms of price and service. Zignal is an ideal candidate to take the first step.
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The offering
The Zignal Cloud offering truly simplifies the process to offer commercial TV over broadband. Until now the industry has been characterized with cumbersome and complex processes in terms of getting up and running in offering carrier grade IPTV services. Zignal Cloud removes these barriers by offering a highly scalable infrastructure in a hosted environment.
Service providers have a chance of utilizing Industria’s experience and pioneering technology platform to remove the effort involved with the installation of complex software solutions and with no upfront cost for the service provider.
The Zignal Cloud enables service providers to offer full three-screen TV services, on TVs, PCs and mobile handsets. The consumer can experience rich media services such as Video on Demand, Pause live TV and Personal video Recording, to name a few.
Members in our beta program will be allowed to connect up to 10 se-top-boxes free of charge during our trial period. If you're interested in participating apply for membership.
Integration through APIs
The Zignal Cloud is accessible through a host of APIs where service providers are able to further customize and integrate Zignal Cloud with their own solutions and TV offerings. Local media assets are managed within the back office environment of the Zignal Cloud, including both IP video streams and On-Demand video assets
Ready for large scale deployments
Zignal Cloud’s hosting platform is highly scaleable and client licencses priced on a sliding scale.
Zignal Cloud will short channel-change intervals, rapid response to video recording and playback commands as well as other interactive service commands with increasing customer base.
100% Availability
Zignal Cloud is currently hosted on one of the most advanced web-scale computing platforms. For the purposes of increased availability Industria will be offering service providers to store a local node in-house or in hosting facilities of their choice.
Reduced time to market
IPTV, like any other business, aims to increase revenues and minimize costs. Through the Zignal Cloud service providers immediately gain access to a host of new services, pre-integrated with the system. This means that new revenue generating services are available for deployment from first date of subscription. Zignal Cloud also includes several widgets running information services that users can dynamically deploy to their liking.
Developers wanting to commercialize their IPTV services on Zignal Cloud are free to use a development environment of their own choice while adhearing to development standards as defined on Industria’s website www.industria.com.
Business Model support
Zignal Cloud is developed to support both the retail and wholesale IPTV business model. Service providers can define as many Virtual Service Providers or Zones as they please therefore supporting different services and user-experiencee to different end users.
Functional Requirements support
Zignal Cloud has a host of APIs to ease the integration with third party systems. Zignal has a clearly defined product roadmap enabling new features and services along the way. Industria also supports third party development of services and widgets that can than be deployed and made commercially available to the community of service providers on Zignal Cloud.
Set-top-box support
Zignal Cloud can be deployed on any set-top-box running a standards compliant browser. The requirement for standards compliancy enables Industria, or third party service providers to integrate with new STBs quickly and efficiently. The integration process is readily available on the Industria website. The Zignal client provides uncontended user experience, and the small-footprint needed ensures that even slow SBTs can gain new life with response to interactive service commands reduced by that test has shown to be around an eigth of the previous response times.
Feature support
Industria is building a community for developers to ensure that those willing to develop solutions for IPTV can do so easily and deploy it to a community of users. For end-users and service providers this will increase the availability of new and pre-integrated solutions available for deployment.
For further information on the solution and what it can do for your business, please contact us at sales@industria.com
Apply for a trial account in the beta program for Zignal Cloud.
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