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| BNS joins forces with BitBand, Cisco Systems, Millennium IT, Sri Lanka Telecom and TANDBERG Television to make the world's first mVPN network a reality |
[Colombo, 15 December 2003] - Broadband Network Systems Ltd. (BNS) announced today in collaboration with Cisco Systems, Millennium Information Technologies (Millennium IT, Colombo) TANDBERG Television, BitBand and Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), a demonstration of the world's first successful mVPN network deployment for multicast video on VPN and Video-on-Demand solutions.
In the week-long trial, BNS provided turnkey IP video solutions for this world's first mVPN network. On a Cisco platform with mMPLS core from SLT, using IP video servers from BitBand Technologies, MPEG encoders and IP streamers from TANDBERG Television, together with BNS P200 IP Set-Top Boxes, the tests consisted of multicast live TV channels and on demand movies, successfully brought from the Headend via mMPLS core and mVPN link.
The multicast and VOD streams were then transported to several edge locations in the network, including the client side, and the result was that all video streams were tested at 4Mbps on DSL network.
The result of the collaboration was a reliable, secure, private and easily managed network that is, for the first time, capable of delivering multicast video on IP-VPN networks. This collaboration also demonstrated, for the first time, how mVPN can cater to Multi-ISP users.
"This is possibly one of the first video multicast tests done on IP-VPN (mVPN) network and we are very happy with the results that we got from SLT's core and DSL Networks. SLT's core consists of Cisco 12000 Series Routers with Cisco 7200 and 7500 Series Routers on the edge. The trial showcases a solution that enables Service Providers to offer a lower cost entry to TV production houses and TV operators via DSL and mVPN, " said Siri Hewa, Solutions and Business Development Manager, Broadcast and Digital Video, Cisco Systems.
Damith Hettihewa, Product Manager - Millennium Information Technologies said "This testing has again shown the power of IP communications in carrier class telco networks. Cisco's powerful technology and Millennium IT's continuous commitment allow Sri Lanka Telecom to keep on adding IP based revenue applications to its service portfolio. IP-VPN, ADSL and Broadband Video Multicast over DSL, all using single MPLS based truly converged IP Transport network. We are proud to be part of this innovation along with Cisco's Broadcast & Video BU and Broadband Network Systems Ltd."
"We are proud to be a part of this innovative solution for Video-on-Demand and Live broadcasting over VPN, in an IP DSL environment. This is yet another demonstration of the flexibility, which BitBand solution provides. VPN opens more opportunities to offer secure and high-QOS IP-TV services to service providers worldwide today, " said Arie Aig, VP of Business Development, BitBand Inc.
"IP has the potential to make delivering video simpler, quicker and cheaper. Recognizing that IP brings our customers such benefits, we have been developing carrier class video over IP solutions for some time and have already deployed such technologies in commercially launched systems around the world, " said Graham Cradock, General Manager of TANDBERG Television Asia Pacific.
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