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UniTV Technology by Rehovot based R&D facility of US firm Integra5 to offer Advanced TV-based Telephony and Messaging Services to Kentucky Customers
"Triple-Play Provider Leveraging Fiber-to-the-Home Network to Provide Subscribers with True Converged Services -- TV Caller ID and TV Voicemail Message Waiting
BURLINGTON, Mass. Integra5 Communications, the pioneer in converged quadruple play messaging and communications technology, today announced that Foothills Telephone Cooperative, a progressive memberowned service provider based in Staffordsville, Kentucky, will deploy Integra5's TV Caller ID and TV Voicemail Message Waiting applications to increase competitive differentiation, build customer loyalty and drive uptake of digital services.
Foothills provides a range of services, including local and long-distance telephony, high-speed data and cable TV, to over 15,000 residential and business customers throughout Johnson, Lawrence and Magoffin Counties in Kentucky. Foothills will deploy Integra5's TV Caller ID and TV Voicemail Message Waiting applications over their converged, triple-play Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network. Foothills plans to make the advanced telephony and messaging services, part of Integra5's UniTV Visual Telephony and UniTV Visual Messaging product suites, available to subscribers of our digital cable services beginning in January 2006.
"Our FTTH was the first step in a strategy to provide our subscribers with the most advanced voice, data and video services, and Integra5's UniTV platform represents the next step in our vision to make converged services a reality," said Tom Preston, general manager, for Foothills. "Building upon our FTTH rollout, UniTV gives us unique, differentiated triple-play services and allows us to compete based on value-added services rather than price. This is really just the beginning of the potential to roll out additional enhanced services enabled by UniTV like Picture Caller ID and SMS Text Messaging."
Integra5's UniTV platform is network based, requiring no new customer equipment for TV Caller ID or TV Voicemail Message Waiting. TV Caller ID automatically displays the name and telephone number of the person calling on a subscriber's TV before the phone even rings. TV Voicemail Message Waiting notifies subscribers of the number of voicemail messages waiting. Subscribers can also access various menu options for these services via their TV remote control, including a Call History feature to view a list of incoming calls detailing the caller's name, number and time and date of call, and a Telephony Control Panel so subscribers can modify the duration of the TV Caller ID display on their screen.
"Progressive operators like Foothills realize that to thrive in this competitive marketplace, competitive differentiation and revenue growth will be driven by service innovation," said Dr. Eyal Bartfeld, president and CEO of Integra5. "Triple-play or quad-play networks are simply the foundation for the delivery of enhanced applications that blend features of voice, video, data and wireless services."
To offer the TV Caller ID product, Foothills will deploy Integra5's UniTV application server platform in its head end where UniTV recognizes incoming calls, creates the display information and sends it to the appropriate customer's TV. The patented technology is standards-based, features a distributed architecture that can scale to support up to millions of subscribers, and has the processing performance required for real-time delivery of signals and information between data, telephone (public switched and IP), cable TV (traditional and IP) and cellular networks. It also supports multiple set-top boxes, PCs and phone lines per household.
Integra5's UniTV platform has been commercially deployed with telco and cable service providers since mid 2004. Integra5 will showcase the UniTV platform and services in a live demonstration in its booth at the TelcoTV Conference & Expo, November 8-10, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.
About Integra5
Integra5 Communications is a pioneer in converged quad play messaging and communications technology for telco and cable service providers, utilities, and other broadband providers. The company was founded in January 2000 by experts in unified messaging and image processing and is backed by leading venture capitalists, including Benchmark Capital and Lauder Partners. The company's UniTV converged services platform features patented and patent-pending technology and has been commercially deployed in service provider networks since 2004. Integra5 is based in Burlington, Mass., USA, and has a research and development office in Rehovot, Israel. For more information, visit http://www.integra5.com.
Contact: Christi Dean SparkSource, Inc. (781) 418-2430 cdean@sparksource.com
Source: Integra5 Communications Web Site: http://www.integra5.com "
Source: Foothills Telephone Cooperative to Offer Advanced TV-based Telephony and Messaging Services to Kentucky Customers using UniTV Technology from Integra5. PRNewswire 9 Nov. 2005 [FullText]
BURLINGTON, Mass. Integra5 Communications, the pioneer in converged quadruple play messaging and communications technology, today announced that Foothills Telephone Cooperative, a progressive memberowned service provider based in Staffordsville, Kentucky, will deploy Integra5's TV Caller ID and TV Voicemail Message Waiting applications to increase competitive differentiation, build customer loyalty and drive uptake of digital services.
Foothills provides a range of services, including local and long-distance telephony, high-speed data and cable TV, to over 15,000 residential and business customers throughout Johnson, Lawrence and Magoffin Counties in Kentucky. Foothills will deploy Integra5's TV Caller ID and TV Voicemail Message Waiting applications over their converged, triple-play Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) network. Foothills plans to make the advanced telephony and messaging services, part of Integra5's UniTV Visual Telephony and UniTV Visual Messaging product suites, available to subscribers of our digital cable services beginning in January 2006.
"Our FTTH was the first step in a strategy to provide our subscribers with the most advanced voice, data and video services, and Integra5's UniTV platform represents the next step in our vision to make converged services a reality," said Tom Preston, general manager, for Foothills. "Building upon our FTTH rollout, UniTV gives us unique, differentiated triple-play services and allows us to compete based on value-added services rather than price. This is really just the beginning of the potential to roll out additional enhanced services enabled by UniTV like Picture Caller ID and SMS Text Messaging."
Integra5's UniTV platform is network based, requiring no new customer equipment for TV Caller ID or TV Voicemail Message Waiting. TV Caller ID automatically displays the name and telephone number of the person calling on a subscriber's TV before the phone even rings. TV Voicemail Message Waiting notifies subscribers of the number of voicemail messages waiting. Subscribers can also access various menu options for these services via their TV remote control, including a Call History feature to view a list of incoming calls detailing the caller's name, number and time and date of call, and a Telephony Control Panel so subscribers can modify the duration of the TV Caller ID display on their screen.
"Progressive operators like Foothills realize that to thrive in this competitive marketplace, competitive differentiation and revenue growth will be driven by service innovation," said Dr. Eyal Bartfeld, president and CEO of Integra5. "Triple-play or quad-play networks are simply the foundation for the delivery of enhanced applications that blend features of voice, video, data and wireless services."
To offer the TV Caller ID product, Foothills will deploy Integra5's UniTV application server platform in its head end where UniTV recognizes incoming calls, creates the display information and sends it to the appropriate customer's TV. The patented technology is standards-based, features a distributed architecture that can scale to support up to millions of subscribers, and has the processing performance required for real-time delivery of signals and information between data, telephone (public switched and IP), cable TV (traditional and IP) and cellular networks. It also supports multiple set-top boxes, PCs and phone lines per household.
Integra5's UniTV platform has been commercially deployed with telco and cable service providers since mid 2004. Integra5 will showcase the UniTV platform and services in a live demonstration in its booth at the TelcoTV Conference & Expo, November 8-10, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.
About Integra5
Integra5 Communications is a pioneer in converged quad play messaging and communications technology for telco and cable service providers, utilities, and other broadband providers. The company was founded in January 2000 by experts in unified messaging and image processing and is backed by leading venture capitalists, including Benchmark Capital and Lauder Partners. The company's UniTV converged services platform features patented and patent-pending technology and has been commercially deployed in service provider networks since 2004. Integra5 is based in Burlington, Mass., USA, and has a research and development office in Rehovot, Israel. For more information, visit http://www.integra5.com.
Contact: Christi Dean SparkSource, Inc. (781) 418-2430 cdean@sparksource.com
Source: Integra5 Communications Web Site: http://www.integra5.com "
Source: Foothills Telephone Cooperative to Offer Advanced TV-based Telephony and Messaging Services to Kentucky Customers using UniTV Technology from Integra5. PRNewswire 9 Nov. 2005 [FullText]
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