HFCL Infotel Has Big IPTV Plans; To Invest Rs 600 crore Or $133 Million In Punjab

Indiantelevision.com: It seems HFCL Infotel Ltd, a private telephony operator in Punjab, has gone a bit ahead in IPTV adoption. It plans to invest Rs 6 billion ($133 million) over the next two years for offering a convergence of services including digital cable and IPTV. The company has installed a Scientific Atlanta headend for analogue services, while the digital headend is from Harmonic. Iredeto will provide the encryption system. “We are in talks with various vendors for IPTV. SeaChange, for example, can provide video-on-demand servers and the middle ware. We want to do the systems integration ourselves. We are already streaming IP in Mohali as a pilot with local soultions,” HFCL Infotel CEO Surendra Lunia said.
For content, HFCL has already signed with Star India for providing its bouquet of channels to cable networks. “We also have an understanding with Star for digital and IPTV, though we haven’t formally signed yet. We are in negotiations with Sony as well,” says Lunia.

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