AT&T
Deutsche Telekom
Verizon
HDTV & DVD Streaming over Cross-Continent Optical Networks

The Background:
AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and Verizon are three of the world's leading telecommunications carriers. They were participants in the Optical Internetworking Forum Interoperability Demonstration.

The Challenge:
To stream videos with a broad range of quality levels over optical networks connecting the carriers across continents as well as at the OIF’s SuperComm 2004 demo at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, during this unique event.

The InfoValue Solution:
InfoValue provided the carriers with InfoValue QuickVideo™ software and the expertise required to deploy video streaming over the optical network.

InfoValue QuickVideo™ product suite is a powerful, scalable software based solution that provides interactive, quality-guaranteed streaming on-demand playback of standards-based, high-quality video using off-the-shelf hardware.

InfoValue QuickVideo™ supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and HDTV as well as Microsoft media format and others.

The Epilogue:
QuickVideo with its open architecture and interfaces coupled with InfoValue's proven expertise in assisting telecoms to deliver high-quality video over IP allowed AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and Verizon to easily stream video to showcase their interoperability at the demonstration.
InfoValue continues to be committed to this partnership with telco's to provide streaming video services to their customers.