IP&TV INDUSTRY AWARDS 2011 WINNERS ANNOUNCED
23 March 2011 – The winners of the IP&TV Industry Awards were honoured at a special gala dinner awards presentation at Madame Tussauds in London tonight.
Industry leaders across both service providers and solution providers gathered at Madame Tussauds to celebrate and recognise the innovation, excellence and achievement within the global IP and Connected TV industry.
The 2011 Awards were judged by a prestigious panel of senior and expert individuals, drawn from cable and telecom operators and independent experts, representing a cross-section of leading service providers from around the world.
LIGAtotal interaktiv Interactive TV Advertising was named the winner of the new award category for Best TV App, which was judged on site at this week’s IP&TV World Forum from the array of TV-based applications that are being showcased at the event.
Gavin Whitechurch, director of the IP&TV World Forum, commented: “The IP&TV Industry Awards allows us to recognise the growth and evolution within the IP and Connected TV industry.
“This year has seen amazing developments within the industry, and the awards were expanded to reflect the growing range of service providers implementing IP broadcast and the growing range of applications in IP. Congratulations to all the winners for their hard work, dedication and excellence within the sector!”
The full winners list is:
Best Multiscreen TV Service Award
AT&T – AT&T U-verse TV
Delivers compelling TV shows on multiple screens with U-verse TV, U-verse Online, U-verse Mobile, and U-verse TV on Xbox 360.
Best Multiscreen TV Solution Award
Ericsson AB – Ericsson Multiscreen TV
Addresses consumer demand for a far more enhanced range of services than ever before, using its end-to-end capabilities to enable delivery of content to multiple screens and create new TV business models.
Best IP Cable, Hybrid Broadcast or Connected TV Service Award
KT (Korea Telecom) – KT IPTV “olleh tv”
Offers 122 video channels (including HD), over 9,600 VOD titles and 92 interactive services to homes across Korea.
Best IP Workflow Solution or Implementation for TV Award
Motorola – Motorola Medios Videoflow
Helps service providers manage and grow their on-demand catalog to include music, games, Web content and enhanced TV applications, without increasing staff.
Best Service Delivery Platform for IP TV Award
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd – IPTV Service Delivery Platform
A middleware back-office architecture and portal infrastructure which provides the core services functionality of an IPTV solution, whilst easing all processes in delivering innovative services that extend beyond traditional TV and pay-per-view services to subscribers through the network of telco and MSO operators.
Best Quality Improvement Solution for IP, Hybrid or Connected TV Award
BRIDGE Technologies – microVB™
A small self-contained and user-installable device delivered by mail to the subscriber – IPTV operators cangather complete and accurate data about the performance at the viewers’ set-top box, using a cost-effective, user-installed monitoring device.
Best On-Demand Solution or Implementation for IP, Hybrid or Connected TV Award
Deutsche Telekom AG – LIGA total!
Enables subscribers to access important information and video clips from all games of the German Bundesliga on-demand whenever they want.
Best TV Consumer Device or CPE Award
Universal Electronics BV – Infinity Universal Remote Control
A full capacitive-sensing 2D touchpad offers 360° relative pointing, 1-to-1 absolute pointing and X/Y axis scrolling. Infinity’s two-sided design incorporates a full QWERTY keyboard to support interactive applications which require text entry, such as VOD title search, YouTube search, Twitter, and instant messaging clients.
Best Enabling Silicon, IP or Component Technologies for IP TV Award
Ikanos Communications – Ikanos NodeScale™ Vectoring DSL access technology
Enables service providers to extend very high-speed Internet access and deliver new critical services – including multiple high-definition television streams, distance learning, video conferencing, telemedicine, and more – without having to incur the high costs of installing complete Fibre-to-the-Home networks.
Best Network or Access Network Technology for IP TV Award
Juniper Networks – Media Flow Publisher
Enables cable operators, IPTV providers, and content publishers to leverage their existing video infrastructure to cost-effectively extend the delivery of premium, high quality content to multiple end user devices.
Best IP TV, Hybrid or Connected TV Service Growth Achievement Award
TTNET (a Turk Telekom company) – Tivibu
A Web TV platform that offers a range of advanced features such as catch up TV, network pause live TV, unlimited access to VOD library of 1000+ titles, TVOD library for the newest and premium content, and 85 linear broadcast TV channels from local, national and international providers.
For more information on the IP&TV Industry Awards winners – including quotes, interviews, headshots and videos – please visit www.iptv-forum.com.