Mariner is a leading provider of
IP Video products and services, helping our clients expand
their business portfolio with triple and quad play solutions.
Our IPTV Lifecycle services - We
offer a suite of consulting services that span all phases
of IPTV deployment, including up front service planning,
systems integration, custom design and development, and
operational process improvement. Our best practices will
accelerate your path to IPTV profitability.
Our IPTV development services - Our
IPTV development team specializes in the design and development
of IPTV solutions customized to fit your market needs.
We have deep experience across multiple IPTV middleware
solutions. Whether it's a new custom feature or a port
to a new set top box, we have the skills to deliver.
Our IPTV products – Mariner offers
market-leading technologies designed to deliver bottom
line value to your IPTV service. xVu, Mariner's innovative
TV Care platform and frostt, an IPTV Service
Acceleration platform, will enable you to successfully
meet the challenges of developing and operating video
services in today's increasingly complex marketplace.
IP Video Lifecycle Solutions
Mariner has been a key player in IPTV for over a decade.
We offer a rich suite of IP Video system integration, consulting
services, and IPTV launch and service assurance products.
From project management to Set-top Box software integration,
Mariner's team helps the industry ecosystem of middleware,
Set-top-box, conditional access and infrastructure vendors,
as well as Service Providers meet the unique challenges
of developing and operating IPTV.
IP Video
Consulting Services
Mariner's IP Video consulting services
revolve around the unknowns and uncertainties of IPTV
requirements. The scope of our experience flows from
the IPTV business planning requirements through project
management and customer servicing processes required
to support a successful IPTV launch.
Sample of Mariner's Consulting Services
Competencies:
- Rich suite of IPTV templates (processes and methodologies)
- Integrated industry leading quality assurance techniques
and repository of test cases
- Test case integration database of over 3000 test
cases, failure modes and corrective solutions
- Assess the impact of IPTV & Triple Play services
on network, systems & organizational processes
- Proven baseline templates for service, processes
and technology design
- Key metrics for cost & performance measurement and
improvements
- Assessing pre-launch readiness of technology, systems
and processes
- Verify organizational performance and the customer
experience against benchmark readiness criteria
- Objective evaluation and prioritization for all
identified gaps within IPTV strategic plan
IP Video
Integration Services
Mariner’s IP Video integration services
focus on the IPTV networking systems from middleware to
Set-top-box, including DRM, VOD and supporting OSS. In
addition to trial deployments, Mariner’s teams are
experienced in developing and integrating these sub-systems
into production networks in commercial services.
Adding
new features like CLID or PVR?
Mariner's integration services reduce the
cost and risk associated with introducing these services
to live networks. Mariner works with your in-house experts
to interface your IPTV system to service activation, network
management and help desk tools needed to ensure efficient
cost effective customer service processes.
Sample IPTV integration projects Mariner
has successfully completed:
- Design of head end system for Tier 1 carrier
- Design and development of IP PVR for classical
IGMP deployment
- Development of IPTV Electronic Program Guide
- Integration of middleware to VOD server
- Porting browser and DRM client to SOC Set Top platform
- Development and delivery of User Interface for
content processing vendor
- Development of re-usable interfaces to provisioning
and billing systems
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Here
is what the Yankee Group had to say in a January 2007
report: "Leading
service-fulfillment vendors have incorporated IPTV-
related service provisioning and fulfillment processes
in consultation with specialists such as Mariner"
Read the complete Yankee Group Report primarily
featuring Mariner and entitled "IPTV Service Fulfillment:
Delivering the Perfect Picture" by Arindam Banerjee.
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Mariner's team members have
played key roles in IPTV since 1997. We are the leaders in
IPTV development in North America.
Client Quotes:
"Mariner's professionals provided
us the Internet Protocol TV expertise required to support
our work.
Their people were highly experienced, enabling timely inputs,
to our sometimes urgent timelines and
insights critical to all aspects of the file. Their technical
and industry knowledge was critical to achieving
the successful outcome which we achieved."
- Paul O. Jolis, Lewis
Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP
"The technical and operational
knowledge Mariner brought from their real life experiences
enabled us to better plan,
build and operate a more reliable IP video service in a
shorter timeframe."
- North American Tier
1 Telecom Service Provider
"Mariner Partners Inc. provided
our Executive with a concise strategy and analysis relative
to emerging IP services in the North American Market."
- Mid Tier North American
Telecom Service Provider
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