Roster of IPTV Vendors in Alaska

Filed in archive IPTV on August 29, 2005

For those of you who like to keep tabs on which vendors are supplying various portions of the IPTV food chain, here is some information about an small IPTV solution for 10,000 phone customers with Ketchikan Public Utilities (KPU). KPU is in alaska.

First, Tut Systems Inc. is supplying headend equipment and acting as systems integrator.

Tut brought in Entone Technologies Inc., which is supplying the video-on-demand server. Amino Communications and I3 are delivering IPTV set-tops. Myrio Corp. is supplying the middleware.

Pannaway Technologies is supplying intelligent network interface devices in the homes of the subscribers which will allow KPU to troubleshoot problems and reduce truck rolls by doing diagnostics and repair remotely.

KPU is getting content from ViewNow, Entone's sister company. It plans a fall launch of its 125-channel video service. It will offer 500-plus movies from Entone's 1,000-hour server library. Stand-alone video packages will start at $52 per month.