Globecast To Operate New IPTV Bouquet for France Telecom
By Staff Writer | January 26, 2006
Globecast announced Jan. 25 that it was chosen by France Telecom‘s IPTV arm Maligne TV to manage the French operator’s newest IPTV bouquet, Le Bouquet TV,
Beginning with the Feb. 1 launch, Globecast will be responsible for aggregating and managing Le Bouquet TV, which will offer 30 general and thematic channels.
Globecast’s will provide satellite downlink of the channels, MPEG-4 encoding, multiplexing, Internet protocol encapsulation and fulltime support. Globecast will also create two mosaic index screens to provide viewers with an overview of all channels simultaneously.
The finished package will be distributed by Maligne TV to its subscribers via France Telecom’s broadband Internet network.