Thomson has announced the launch of its pre-integrated service delivery platforms helping telecom service providers to introduce sophisticated voice and video features over broadband local loops. Combined with video head-end equipments from the company’s Grass Valley activity and Thomson’s home gateways and set-top box portfolio, this is the first truly pre-integrated solution on the market for quick and easy Triple Play deployment from thousands up to millions of users. The heart of the solution is made of Thomson’s SmartVision IPTV middleware and Cirpack VoIP SoftSwitches. Both are developed together by Thomson for streamlined development of converged services and IPTV delivery over Cirpack’s IMS infrastructure. By managing both voice and video service delivery platforms together, Thomson will also help operators to optimise deployment cycles.

Thomson’s new triple play solutions include a user friendly interface, which transform the TV set into a truly integrated communications centre. The customer can thereby operate all telephone and video functions on their TV screen from the comfort of their couch with a simple remote control. Thomson’s triple play features combine innovative SmartVision TV services such as live TV with picture in picture, video on demand, network personal video recording and time shifting (the ability to pause and resume live broadcasts), with advanced Cirpack telephony management for services such as caller ID on TV for incoming calls, browsing call history with click to dial, activating call forwarding, configuring black lists or selecting musical ring back tones on the TV. Using open interfaces, Thomson’s new triple play solutions integrates seamlessly with the operator’s existing service platforms to turn the TV screen into a unified messaging centre for voice mail, video mail, SMS and e-mail. The interactive portal can be used to easily set up personal viewing and call preferences such as automatically pausing programmes for incoming calls. The same core network platforms can manage mobile devices for telephony such as dual mode WiFi-GSM phones and mobile video devices such as 3G phones or DVB-H receivers.
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