Pay-TV operators’ strong market position and profitable customer relationships are now challenged by new players. The Internet infrastructure enables IPTV and ”cord- cut- ting”over the top (OTT) service providers to enter the TV distribution market.
To stay competitive operators urgently need to ramp up innovation and deploy new, more advanced interactive services faster, as well as offer end-users applications, such as Youtube, Facebook, Spotify and Netflix.
However, set-top box installations with multiple suppliers and software platforms is a troublesome affair.
| Launching new subscriber services takes too much time and effort which leads to lost revenue and higher cost. | |
| It is difficult to maintain and support several platforms leading to expensive and inefficient after sales and support. | |
| Diverse platforms also means that a move to new cost reduced chipsets takes longer than it would need to. |
Zenterio offers a solution that makes it possible to integrate the same SW platform over several different HW platforms and HW vendors. This means that the benefits (added security, lower cost) of sourcing from different hardware vendors can be combined with the benefits (lower after sales costs, less client issues in the network) of using one SW platform with a branded operator user interface.
| Selecting the Zenterio OS SW platform makes it possible for operators to reduce time-to-market of new revenue generating services, and to reduce costs of operation. |