Content Services, Inc. (CSI) and Intelsat announced that CSI has signed a distribution agreement for AmpiageSM, Intelsat’s satellite-based, open-architecture, video transport platform. Under the agreement, CSI will be the first Ampiage distributor to focus on delivering wholesale video, voice and data services to retail providers in the multi-dwelling unit, hospitality, municipality, university and master planned community markets.

Content Services, through its CSI Digital subsidiary, will initially focus on distribution to multiple system operators (MSOs) seeking to upgrade video content to MPEG-4 as well as telecommunications operators (telcos) and Internet Service Providers looking to enter the IPTV or triple-play (voice, video and data) market.