Canada's Saskatchewan Telecommunications (SaskTel) selected Kasenna's video delivery platform to power its new VOD service launched this week. SaskTel has been offering an IP broadcast TV service over its DSL network since last year. The new VOD service is available to subscribers in all 9 cities where SaskTel's television service is offered and is expected to grow to 50,000 subscribers by 2005.
Specifically, SaskTel is using Kasenna's MediaBase XMP software to manage, distribute and deliver video content for the new VOD portion of their triple-play service. Kasenna's software allows SaskTel to deploy servers in multiple locations while using a centralized interface to manage them seamlessly. SaskTel has deployed Sun servers running Kasenna MediaBase XMP video delivery software with Gigabit Ethernet delivering MPEG-2 video at 2.3 Mbps. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- SaskTel is using Alcatel's iMagicTV software platform for delivering interactive television service to its DSL subscribers.
