Digital TV News: SmartLabs

SmartLabs completes Rostelecom IPTV STB integration
Mar 16, 2012 – SmartLabs has announced a successful completion of integration of SmartLabs' SmartTUBE SDP Service Delivery Platform with STBs of multiple vendors selected by Rostelecom for its unified interactive TV service offered across Russia.
News categories: SmartLabs, Rostelecom, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Russia, Set Top Box, Video Exchange

SmartLabs: Russia's first integrator of Widevine solutions
Dec 7, 2011 – SmartLabs has become Russia's first Certified Widevine Integrator Partner (CWIP). Widevine (NASDAQ:GOOG) Digital Rights Management for Over-The-Top services is used to protect streamed and downloaded digital content against illegal copying.
News categories: SmartLabs, Widevine, Content Protection, DRM, Russia, Set Top Box, Streaming

Russia's STB market to be flat at 2.5 million units in 2012
Dec 5, 2011 – According to a report from J'son & Partners commissioned by the European Audiovisual Observatory, the number of set-top boxes shipped this year in Russia will be 2.5 million, with no growth expected in 2012.
News categories: European Audiovisual Observatory, J'son & Partners, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Russia, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Terrestrial

SmartLabs to provide IPTV set-top boxes to Russia's MTS
Nov 5, 2011 – Following an open tender process, Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (NYSE:MBT), a leading telecommunications operator in Russia and the CIS, has chosen SmartLabs as a provider of IPTV set-top boxes for the MTS Home TV service.
News categories: SmartLabs, Mobile TeleSystems, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Russia, Set Top Box

SmartLabs equips Rostelecom-Ural with set-top boxes
Jun 17, 2011 – SmartLabs has announced that it has supplied the Urals subsidiary of Rostelecom with its SML-292 set-top boxes. Rostelecom-Ural provides IPTV services in the Urals Federal District and Perm regions under the 'Utel.TV' brand.
News categories: SmartLabs, Rostelecom, Digital TV, IPTV, Russia, Set Top Box

NTV-PLUS Adds Verimatrix Software-Based Security to IPTV Wholesale System in Russia
May 4, 2011 – Verimatrix has announced that the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for IPTV will be deployed on the NTV-PLUS wholesale network to secure video for the 'IPTV NTV-PLUS' service via local broadband network operators.
News categories: Verimatrix, NTV-PLUS, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Russia, Satellite

SmartLabs Enhanced Digital TV Platform Installed in the Urals
Mar 17, 2011 – SmartLabs has announced the launch of a new IPTV platform for the subscribers of the Urals largest telecom operator, Uralsvyazinform (Utel). In November 2010, Uralsvyazinform introduced an end-to-end IPTV solution from SmartLabs.
News categories: SmartLabs, Uralsvyazinform, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Russia, Set Top Box

NTV-PLUS and SmartLabs Launch a New IPTV Project for Broadband Operators
Feb 15, 2011 – SmartLabs and NTV-Plus have announced the launch of 'IPTV NTV-Plus' for IPTV in broadband networks. SmartLabs provides operators with client applications and a centralized management system. NTV-Plus provides access to premium TV content.
News categories: SmartLabs, NTV-Plus, Content Distribution, IPTV, Middleware

Edgeware Powers COMSTAR Time-Shift TV Service in Russia
Mar 22, 2010 – Edgeware has announced that COMSTAR-UTS (LSE: CMST) has deployed Edgeware's video delivery solution to power its Time-shift TV service in Russia.
News categories: Edgeware, COMSTAR, Content Distribution, IPTV, Russia