Microsoft combines software and cloud services to create a new TV experience

Microsoft combines software and cloud services to create a new TV experience

The award-winning Mediaroom TV platform version 2.0 enables subscription TV service providers to use a single cloud infrastructure to provide richer entertainment content for more devices
Las Vegas, January 7, 2010-Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of the world ’s most well-equipped interactive network TV at the InternaTIonal Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010 (IPTV) The latest version of the platform is Microsoft Mediaroom 2.0. With Mediaroom 2.0, TV service operators will be able to provide TV services to more users than ever before. Compared with the previous Mediaroom version, the content will be richer and the applicable equipment will be more extensive, whether at home or outdoors. Enjoy the fun brought by TV.

Mediaroom 2.0 is scheduled to be launched for operators starting next month, and testing will begin. Operators can deploy Mediaroom 2.0 as their entertainment cloud to provide comprehensive TV services, including cloud-based digital video recording (DVR), on-demand features, interactive applications, and access to operator-hosted content and externally hosted content, such as the Internet TV. Users can experience carrier services on a variety of devices, including TVs (using Mediaroom set-top boxes), Windows Media Center (Windows Media Center), web browsers (Windows-based PCs and Macs), Xbox 360, and compatible smart phones Cell phone.

With the new capabilities of Mediaroom 2.0, service providers will be able to use their existing set-top boxes to provide on-demand TV services to all their broadband users, thereby extending their services beyond the coverage of IPTV networks. Users can also use the Windows Media Center on a Windows 7-based personal computer * and experience the same on-demand service on Xbox 360. In addition, service providers can also enable users to remotely access their on-demand programs using various web browsers running on Windows-based personal computers and Macs, and can even use compatible smartphones in the future.

In addition, Mediaroom 2.0 also adds support for Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming, enabling access and delivery of on-demand content. Since IIS Smooth Streaming adjusts the video stream according to the user's network connection to achieve the best video quality, this allows viewers to obtain an extremely high-quality playback experience. At the same time, support for Microsoft PlayReady enables service providers to protect their content libraries and profit from the user experience.

Enrique Rodriguez, Microsoft ’s corporate vice president for TV, video and music, said: "Our Mediaroom strategy is to combine the advantages of client software and cloud services to greatly improve the way consumers experience digital entertainment. We hope that consumers It ’s easier to find and discover exciting content, experience new ways of viewing, listening, and feeling, and it ’s possible to achieve it no matter where and what device is used. Mediaroom 2.0 is an important achievement we have achieved in strategic execution By providing a software platform, the operator ’s service cloud can be adopted by more devices and used by more people with more content than before. "

More equipment

Watching TV on personal computers is the trend. For some people, this is the second or third TV device in the home, or it is regarded as a kind of mobile TV. For others, a personal computer may be the only device for watching TV. Mediaroom 2.0 provides new support for Windows Media Center in Windows 7 systems, which means that operators can now provide high-quality TV services to almost any Windows 7-based PC, including live HD TV, DVR, and on-demand programming, without the need for Extra hardware tuner. In addition, you can watch DVR and on-demand content on Xbox 360, Windows-based PCs, and various web browsers running on Mac. In the near future, you can even use compatible smartphones to watch programs anytime, anywhere.

All of this gives consumers more freedom to choose where and how to enjoy TV services and get a similar experience on multiple devices. For example, they can start watching a program on one device, then switch to another device and then finish watching the program. They can also build video sequences on their smartphones and then watch these programs on TV or personal computers. While traveling, they can watch the recorded TV programs on their smartphones, then watch on-demand high-definition movies on their laptops, and visit the same storefront they use at home.

More networks

At present, the deployment of Mediaroom can be achieved through the fixed network management quality of service (QoS) IP network. Microsoft integrated IIS Smooth Streaming technology into Mediaroom 2.0, enabling operators to provide high-quality HD-quality video-on-demand services, minimize buffer time and speed up startup time, and even exceed IP-based networks with different bandwidths.

This greatly expands the service range of operators, enabling them to provide services for fixed and wireless customers as well as mobile broadband network customers in the future. For operators who only want to provide Internet video-on-demand TV video services to customers, Mediaroom 2.0 also includes a set-top box client designed for users to install themselves to support this function. This client can also be upgraded to include all the features of Mediaroom without having to replace hardware.

For consumers, this improvement means that more people will experience the benefits of cutting-edge Mediaroom TV services in more places than ever before. This also means that regardless of the speed of the network, with the built-in IIS Smooth Streaming support, they will be able to enjoy the best viewing experience.

Richer content

Consumers need to access an ever-expanding content library, and IPTV operators want to meet this demand, while using TV and online video to expand their existing content portfolio, thereby further highlighting the differentiation of their services. With Mediaroom 2.0, operators can now easily integrate live and on-demand TV programs with externally hosted content from Internet TV partners and other Internet-based content sources with a consistent and easy-to-use interface Come together. New features that support the use of Microsoft's advanced content access and protection technology, PlayReady, for the playback of protected content further expand the potential content base of operators' TV services. In addition, operators can also use Mediaroom's application development platform, Mediaroom PresentaTIon Framework, to provide services that are rich in interactivity and seamlessly mix network and TV content, making their services more distinctive.

Once the services supported by Mediaroom 2.0 are configured, users can enjoy all kinds of content they want to watch on their TVs or PCs without having to visit multiple addresses in order to find the content they are looking for, or Connect the computer to the TV. Using an easy-to-use guide, or simply searching through the program used to find the program they want to watch, they will be able to easily find and watch on-demand TV programs across different networks. These have brought a consistent playback experience.

More revenue

According to the analysis of the analysis company Screen Digest, the five top Mediaroom customers have achieved on-demand ARPU (average revenue per user) on average three times that of the existing pay TV operators in their market.

Mediaroom 2.0 includes a new compelling on-demand storefront that can further amplify the profit potential of Mediaroom service operators. The purpose of this new on-demand storefront is to help drive user usage and increase user satisfaction by providing a rich visual browsing, discovery, and playback experience, as well as providing other elements to easily view operator services directly through the storefront .

Mediaroom 1 Mediaroom 2.0
Device-TV with set-top box-TV with set-top box and Xbox 360 and Xbox 360

-Windows 7-based PC through Windows Media Center-Windows-based PC and Mac Internet browser-Compatible smartphone
Network-Managed Service Quality IP Network-Managed Service Quality IP Network
-Unmanaged broadband IP network (Internet)

Content-only the operator-the operator has the ability to access the TV content and the content can be linked to Internet content (TV and other audio and video content)

Introduction to Microsoft Mediaroom

The award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia software platform is the most widely used IPTV platform in the world. By giving broadband service providers the ability to provide new connected TV and entertainment experiences to consumers around the world, Mediaroom is harnessing the future of TV. This provides a new way for consumers to experience TV as part of their connected digital lifestyle, and also creates new business opportunities for broadband service providers, hardware manufacturers, content creators, advertisers and application product developers. More than 20 of the world's leading service providers across 4 continents have chosen to use the Mediaroom platform to support their digital TV services. About Microsoft Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), founded in 1975, is a global leader in software, services, and solutions that help individuals and businesses realize their maximum potential.

The fiber cutter is used to cut fiber as thin as hair. After hundreds of times of amplification, the cut fiber is observed to be flat before discharging the fuse.
The material of fiber is quartz, so the material of fiber cutting knife blade is required.
Adaptive fiber: single or multi-core quartz naked fiber;

Suitable for fiber cladding :100-250um diameter.

SMK-30

Fiber Optic Cleaver

Fiber Optic Cleaver, Optical Fiber Cleaver, Fiber Optic Cutter, Hardware Networking Tools

NINGBO YULIANG TELECOM MUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO.,LTD. , https://www.yltelecom.com