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Home Entertainment System (HES)

Svjazinformservice GmbH, the authorized partner of Siemens, together with the vendor offers the solution, which will allow operators to develop optimal service architecture, with a complete bundle of services. The home entertainment complex — SURPASS Home Entertainment (SHE) is based on the specially selected and tested system elements developed by Siemens and its partners. The central component of the solution is Middleware from partner company Myrio. Siemens closely collaborates with Myrio in the development of different applications, which has made it possible to reach considerable achievements.

Another component of this solution is the telecasting system SHE from Tandberg Television.

Among key partners are the companies nCube (Video on Demand) and Verimatrix (protection of transferred content and control of access rights (CAS/DRM)). These elements in the proposed solution are selected by Siemens on the basis of capacity, reliability and other features of the products.

Why Home Entertainment from Siemens?

1. Experience of installations in operators networks, high-quality solution, based on long-term cooperation with operators and customers of applications.

2. The solution is flexibly scaled according to services and the volume of net resources.

3. User friendly interface, owing to which even housewives can easily cope with applications.

4. The solution can be integrated into existing business processes of operator.

Integration of entertainments, communication and control — key to success of operator

In the basis of Siemens solution is conviction, that operator shall provide complex, integrated applications for all market segments, which should be delivered through several net domains.

With the solution Home Entertainment interactive television for the user will occupy the main place in the sphere of entertainments and communications. Home Entertainment is a modular concept, which allows operator to obtain a continuous growth of his incomes due to providing users with innovation entertainment and communication applications. This solution together with other solutions from Siemens, including integrated management system (IMS) and softswitch architecture (Softswitch), increase value and cost of the existing broadband network infrastructure of operator by transformation of the house of definite subscriber into real complex of entertainments and communications via wire as well as wireless access (on selection).

Digital broadcasting provides a number of new possibilities for users: a larger quantity of channels in comparison with analog TV, convenient graphic interface. Operators also obtain additional advantages, the main of them — network resources saving due to support of dynamic broadband broadcast in access multiplexer.

Audio and Video on demand

Users obtain the possibility to watch music video and films of DVD quality without losing time for download. To confirm user’s order it’s necessary to enter PIN — code.

Parental control allows to limit access to certain types of content and to control expenses for services.

Internet.

With the help of wireless keyboard user can have access to Internet resources on a TV screen.

Games on demand.

Allows subscribers to select offered games via the set-top box user interface and play them on their TV. The games are downloaded from the operator’s network and reside temporarily on the STB. The user is able to play the games using the STB remote control or television-game device.

Video telephony

The solution allows to see the image of the interlocutor on a TV screen. There are all possibilities for integration with video telephones, video conference systems, program clients, video mail boxes. If it is necessary, confidentiality mode can be used. The process of establishing video connection “Call Jump” is Siemens’ original development.

Short messages on a TV screen.

Users may receive, view and answer short messages even while watching TV programs. The service is especially interesting for young people; the service cost is compared with the cost of the messages of mobile operators. Also it is possible to change settings.

Home Entertainment — it’s a concept, not a product

Home Entertainment makes it possible to obtain three types of service (Triple Play) or any of them. It’s a realization concept of services modular structure for user to be adapted to specific user demands of services and to ensure a rapid ROI to operator and provider.

Network structure

Parts of the solution (content providers’ level).

· Broadcasting — equipment from Tanberg

· Interactive TV VoD — equipment C-Cor (nCube)

· Games on Demand — open game servers

· SMS,MMS, E-mail — open servers

· Internet on TV

· Walled Garden on TV

Parts of the solution (operators’ level).

· Access rights management and encryption of information from Verimatrix server (Siemens)

· Myrio (Siemens) applications management

· Network resources management (e.g. hiQ40 from Siemens)

· Video telephony — SIP server, H.323 controller (e.g. hiE9200 from Siemens)

Parts of the solution (users’ level).

· Verimatrix user software (Siemens) as a part of access rights management

· Myrio user software (Siemens)

· Subscriber STB+IP SpeedStream Gateway from Siemens

· Subscriber STB from partners

· xDSL equipment

· PC, etc.

Requirements to the network

Home Entertainment requires specific prerequisites from operators. Among them: possibility of work with:

BRAS (boundary router) with the following functions:

1. Supports of multicasting.

2. Supports of protocols for traffic.

3. GE interfaces for TV.

4. Cards with line interfaces of STM — x level or Ethernet.

DSLAM ensuring:

1. Support of multicasting operation mode in ATM and IP networks

2. Support of IGMP protocol, version 2 and its different functions.

3. Use of broadband line cards ADSL and/or VDSL

4. Minimum upstream channel — GE and system bus with the capacity of 1Gbit/s.

Network (last mile) with the following features:

1. Support of guaranteed service transfer from supplier to user. Transport network must guarantee the necessary bandwidth and priority for TV channels as well as for active sessions of video on demand (VoD).

2. Bandwidth in the range from 1 Mbit/s to 5 Mbit/s depending on the codec types, quantity and types of services in the packet.

3. A certain free IP network resource to satisfy the requirements of dynamic bandwidth allocation.

Realized projects:

Siemens has experience of work and number of realized projects of TV and video broadcasting via Internet. For the first time the solution SURPASS Home Entertainment was introduced officially at CeBIT. At the present moment in the world there are several projects already realized including project on the networks of Belgacom (Belgium), ADC (Thailand) and others.

Contact:

Alexey Scachek

tel. +375 17 211 50 14 (ext.517)

fax: +375 172 11 50 16

E-mail: Alexey.Scachek@Sis.Com.By

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