MUMBAI: Advanced digital video solutions provider Optibase Ltd announced that UTStarcom will integrate Optibase‘s IPTV encoding platforms in its end-to-end rolling stream IPTV solution for deployment with Aksh in India.

Aksh will utilize Optibase‘s integrated carrier-grade TV streaming platforms in order to provide advanced H.264 high-quality encoding.

Aksh optifibre managing director Dr.K.S.Choudhari, on commissions of the Optibase H264 platforms commented, "The video quality and customer response time of Optibase is commendable. We see a long term relation with this company."

Optibase executive vice president of sales Udi Shani said, "Our collaboration with UTStarcom and the installation at Aksh is an important strategic step for Optibase. We believe that our expertise in high-quality video streaming over IP networks combined with UTStarcom‘s integration capabilities creates a winning IPTV solution."

Aksh Optifibre Limited (AOL) is involved in exclusively manufacturing optic fibre cables and fibre to home cables. In 2006, Aksh came forward to manage the software, hardware, service set-up and content delivery of the IPTV service launched in Delhi. The company has entered into a seven-year agreement with MTNL to provide IPTV services in Delhi and Mumbai.

UTStarcom provides IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and international service and support. Rolling stream is designed to support new services including broadcast TV, network PVR (n-PVR), video on demand (VoD), and near video on demand (NVoD) over existing network infrastructures.

Optibase provides professional encoding, decoding, video server upload and streaming solutions for telecom operators, service providers, broadcasters and content creators.