Content Services, Inc. and Intelsat Sign Agreement to Deliver Wholesale Video Content Nationwide
CSI will utilize Intelsat’s recently announced AmpiageSM product to deliver multiple services to customers
Portland, OR and Pembroke, Bermuda, 22 May 2006 - Content Services, Inc. (CSI) and Intelsat today jointly 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 cost-effectively 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. CSI Digital customers are expected to realize significant cost savings by taking advantage of the flexible packaged offerings and reduced capital expense associated with the use of Ampiage.
“The agreement with Intelsat is key to our ability to deliver price advantaged wholesale digital content to our customers,” added David Luman, CEO of Content Services. “MSOs and telcos traditionally have had to spend millions of dollars simply to be able to receive digital content. Through our relationship with Intelsat, CSI Digital customers can now upgrade existing MPEG-2 systems or enter the digital video market at a fraction of the cost required previously, while creating unique local packages customized for geographic and demographic concentrations.”
“CSI Digital’s customers will realize the benefit of quick market entry with substantial cost savings by using our Ampiage service,” said Stephen Spengler, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, at Intelsat. “Intelsat works closely with distributors such as CSI, who are often able to provide additional specialized services that complement Ampiage, to offer high-quality and value-added services to their customers. We’re encouraged by the enthusiasm with which Ampiage has been received and are pleased to have signed CSI as a distributor partner." |
