Alticast on IoT

At last months IBC show, Alticast's Tiaan Schutte, President, EMEA, spoke with Advanced TV on the Smart Home and Internet of Things.  To watch the video, click here:

"RDK: The Worldwide Route to TV Everywhere?" (Advanced TV)

Alticast's own Tiaan Schutte, President, EMEA, recently had the opportunity to sit down with Nick Snow of Advanced TV and three other executives to discuss the merits and future of RDK.

To watch the multi-part discussion, click here.

Alticast Shows Service Providers how to Simplify the Delivery of New, Multiscreen Services at CABSAT 2015

Alticast Demonstrates Latest Solutions at MENA’s Leading Service Provider Conference

Dubai – February 23, 2015 – Alticast, a global partner for the delivery of media entertainment, will demonstrate how its latest solutions enable satellite, cable, terrestrial and telecommunications providers to simplify the development and delivery of innovative, personalized, multiscreen video experiences at the upcoming CABSAT 2015 show (March 10-12) at Dubai’s World Trade Centre, in stand A7-30, Hall 6.

“Service providers throughout the Middle East are striving to offer their subscribers new compelling viewing experiences and CABSAT 2015 is the perfect venue for Alticast to introduce itself to the MENA market and to demonstrate how our advanced solutions enable them to meet their goals while containing costs,” said Tiaan Schutte, Alticast’s President for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).  “Our solutions overcome the inherent complexity of multiscreen video delivery to truly simplify the deployment of new features, enabling service providers to focus on innovating the viewing experience for their subscribers.”

Alticast’s key CABSAT 2015 demonstrations will include:

·          AltiView 2™, Alticast’s advanced user experience (UX) dynamically presents the UI based on subscribers past viewing behavior and leverages real-time viewing statistics from the total viewing base to highlight trending content. This approach maximizes content discovery while minimizing user interaction, thereby driving content consumption while embracing the traditional lean-back TV viewing experience.

·          Alticast’s Cloud UI application provides a thin client/server model for delivering the user experience to all devices in the home. This architecture reduces demands on the STB processor and memory by pre-processing the UI in the Cloud, enabling cable operators to use ‘thin client’ STBs.  Operators can take advantage of Alticast’s Cloud UI to deploy new user experiences (UX) much quicker. It also provides the opportunity to present a variety of UX in a household, for example a child-based, a sports or a movie experience.

·          Alticast staff will also brief attendees on an end-to-end solution that is comprised of the AltiView 1 fully featured UX, AltiPlatform™ market proven middleware, AltiProtect™ integrated content security and AltiPlex Cloud Services Platform which performs all the ‘heavy-lifting’ for delivering a robust user UX. This package is easily operator branded and includes a broad set of features to select for extending a variety of services to the subscriber.

Media and other parties interested in meeting with Alticast executives at CABSAT 2015 should contact alticast@mobilitypr.com to schedule a time.

Alticast Expands EMEA Business Team

Industry Veteran Joins Alticast Lead EMEA Business Development Activities

AMSTERDAM – May 5, 2014 – Alticast, a global partner for the delivery of media entertainment, announced today that Mr. Tiaan Schutte has joined the company as President, for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). An industry veteran with more than two decades of experience, Schutte is the latest addition to Alticast’s Amsterdam-based EMEA operations. Schutte’s most recent position prior to Alticast was with Three Media Associates.

Schutte is well versed in numerous technologies including interactive video, IPTV, mobileTV, cable, DTT, VoIP, satellite and OTT services. He has served in executive level positions at such industry heavy weights as Technicolor, Lucent, Irdeto and nCube. 

“Tiaan brings a wealth of experience to our efforts in the EMEA market. We are delighted to have him join Alticast to guide our EMEA business activities,” said Alticast CMO Thomas Jung. “Tiaan is well known and respected by operators and OEMs; we believe his experience and leadership will ensure that Alticast continues to grow our presence in the EMEA markets and anticipate and meet the needs of our customers.”