Indiantelevision.com's Digital Edge: IOL Broadband, India selects MagnaQuest for IPTV

Indiantelevision.com's Digital Edge

IOL Broadband, India selects MagnaQuest for IPTV

Indiantelevision.com Team

(1 March 2007 9:25 pm)

MUMBAI: MagnaQuest has announced that its Convergent Customer Management and Billing (CMB) solution, MQSubscribeT has been selected by IOL Broadband, India for its subscriber billing, inventory and customer care operations. This contract encompasses IOL's service deployments on their own network and deployment of Content Delivery Network (CDN) for MTNL and BSNL.

An official annoucement states, integrations with network elements for provisioning, rating and billing of multiple services delivered over IP. MQSubscribeT to be used to bill value added services like video on Demand, VoIP services over its IP network, apart from the billing of regular services.

IOL has launched IPTV services including broadcast TV, video on demand, broadband Internet, as part of its CDN project with MTNL. IOL intends to launch such services in several cities in India. MagnaQuest would work on all IOL deployments in India.

MQSubscribeT will support IOL's projected subscriber growth and launch of new value added services. To start with MQSubscribeT would be deployed integrated with SeaChange's Video on Demand middleware chosen by IOL, adds the release.

MagnaQuest managing director Vijay Debbad said, "I am glad that we have bagged the first project in the emerging domain of IPTV. The specialized knowledge we gained over the experience of implementing solutions for Triple Play services including Video and Data and VoIP domains, has enabled us to get here. We look forward to a very long association with IOL Broadband."

MagnaQuest is exhibiting its Convergent Customer Management and Billing solution, MQSubscribeTM and its capability to handle IPTV billing and mediation during IPTV World Forum, London on 5-7 March.