Lucent partners with Orca to offer IPTV

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Lucent has announced a strategic alliance with Orca Interactive to deliver solutions that help service providers offer secure, time on any device.

Lucent Technologies has announced a strategic alliance with Orca Interactive to deliver
solutions that help service providers offer secure, mass market- IPTV and next-generation multimedia services to end customers at any time on any device. Leveraging Lucent's expertise in secure, carrier-class networking and leadership in broadband networks, advanced video applications, and network design and integration, and Orca's leadership in IPTV middleware and video integration, this alliance delivers a market-ready solution through a strong channel relationship. Under the multi-year agreement the companies are also collaborating on joint development to enhance service providers' ability to address the quality and control issues associated with deploying IPTV.


With this partnership Lucent continues to enhance its end-to-end integrated IPTV delivery solutions - deployable today -- that allow carriers to cost-efficiently deliver secure and highly-reliable bundled voice, video and

data services. The solutions are based on open standards, and will give consumers the ability to have access to blended
lifestyle services in the near future anywhere at any time with the quality of service (QoS) that they have come to expect. Lucent has integrated Orca's RiGHTv IPTV middleware platform into its network infrastructure solutions for the delivery of video applications.

Said Rob Piconi, vice president and general manager, Broadband Solutions, Lucent Technologies, "When Lucent combines our expertise with Orca's RiGHTv middleware platform, we give our customers the best IPTV delivery solution today, and lay the foundation for deploying advanced multimedia services in the future. We also have an unparalleled understanding of networks - both wireline and wireless - and a unique vision for providing what we call "blended IP Multimedia services" over these networks. Working with Orca, a leader in IP TV middleware, we have a highly-scalable, market-ready solution tha

t can be customized to meet our different customers' needs."


Leveraging its network and application integration capabilities for multi-vendor networks, Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) supports the solution with network design, deployment, integration and maintenance and management services to increase speed-to-market and reduce operational costs for service providers.

Service providers benefit from the Lucent solution because it allows them to get to market quickly for faster revenues and greater market penetration, leveraging their existing embedded base of IP-capable access equipment. The scalable architecture of the solution also allows service providers to save on capital and operational expenses. End users will benefit by being able to personalize services, such as on-demand video, interactive TV, and voice and video communications, on a number of devices.