Cisco today announced that France-based cable service provider Numericable is building one of the world’s first High-Definition (HD) 3-D video-on-demand (VOD) service based on the Cisco ® Content Delivery System platform. The company originally deployed the platform to support VOD, catch-up TV and user-generated content services. The award-winning Cisco Content Delivery System provides Numericable with the innovation, flexibility and scale to expand its service offering as its 3.5 million TV customers start setting their sights on the third dimension.
Numericable’s new services will be some of the most ambitious and capable on the market thanks to its support of 3-D in high-definition resolution. Numericable will evolve its network into a powerful medianet – an all-Internet Protocol network optimized for rich media – which will allow the company to deploy a new HD 3-D VOD experience that surpasses any other 3-D service available today.
3-D TV is anticipated to be the next paradigm for home consumer entertainment. The media research company Screen Digest forecasts that 22 percent of TVs sold worldwide by 2014 will be 3-D capable. It is also anticipating that all major manufacturers of TV equipment will launch 3-D capable TV sets this year. True 3-D TV in high definition can require the transmission of the equivalent of two traditional 1080 line HD streams, consuming a minimum of 15 megabits per second of bandwidth, and Numericable’s fiber-optic cable network is well-equipped to support the demands of this service.
The Cisco Content Delivery System was originally deployed by Numericable more than a year ago with the support of the Cisco Advanced Services team. The Cisco Content Delivery System is a network-based platform for the delivery of personalized video services. It transcends traditional VOD and Internet streaming solutions by unifying the delivery of a broad range of services from different content sources to a multitude of devices, such as TVs, computers and mobile devices, anywhere, anytime. Services enabled include time-shifted TV, network personal video recording, targeted ad insertion, and wholesale content delivery networks (CDN), and now 3-D VOD.
About Numericable
Numericable is the leading cable broadband operator in France and also present in the Belgium and Luxembourg Markets. Numericable offers video, digital and analog, data and voice to 9.4 million homes in France. Numericable is leader on the french market with its Optical Fiber network: over 4.1 million homes able to access 100 Mbits/s Internet and 152,000 customers already equipped.
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