Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA), an independent operating company (IOC) serving 38,000 member-owners in Alaska, has deployed Minerva Networks IP television headend for its triple play network. This fall, MTA will begin offering live next-generation digital television, video on demand (VOD) and pay-per-view bundled with voice and data services over an ADSL network. The MTA service includes 195 channels of high-quality digital TV including local channels, VOD, pay-per-view and later this fall, MTA will offer TV-based Caller-ID bundled together with its existing telephony and high-speed Internet access.
MTA is using the Minerva iTVManager service management software and the Minerva VC8000 video processing platform. The iTVManager administration module manages business functions and monitors customer preferences while the iTVManager client module, running on the subscriber's set-top box, creates the interactive user experience.
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- Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA) is using Net Insight's Ethernet-based transport platform to support is triple play DSL network. The Net Insight system is a transport switch used for carrying video from the satellite-fed headend to IGMP-enabled DSLAMs. Net Insight uses DTM (Dynamic synchronous Transfer Mode) multiplexing technology to guarantee QoS and no jitter or packet loss for the video streams. Matanuska's network uses Allied Telesyn's DSLAMs.
