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Exterity Delivers IPTV to Reuters
[February 01, 2006]

Exterity Delivers IPTV to Reuters


TMCnet Associate Editor

Thanks to Exterity’s IPTV solutions, reporters and employees working for Reuters news service in its new Canary Wharf, London headquarters now have fast and easy access to 60 digital and terrestrial news channels.

Reuters recently replaced its coaxial system with IPTV to ensure that its employees have access to national, international and internal TV channels, helping them to stay abreast of world events. The company is using Exterity’s TVgateways - which are plug and play broadcast TV to IP network distribution products - to stream the news channels across its existing data and telephony network. This enables news programs to be streamed to conference rooms and lecture theatres, as well as 2,500 PC desktops, throughout the company’s new headquarters.



“As an international news provider, it is essential that our staff have instant access to global television,” Matt Hassock, Reuters technical manager for the IPTV project, said in a news release. “The TVgateways from Exterity ensure that our journalists and managers have quick and easy access to the information that they need to do their job effectively.”

According to Colin Farquhar, managing director of Exterity, the new system “is the largest deployment of corporate IPTV in the UK.” It is also “one of the few truly converged systems that have been deployed in the UK including voice, data and video.”


“Using the existing network to deliver IPTV, Reuters is making the most of available bandwidth and existing network cabling, and has eliminating the cost and time needed to maintain a traditional coaxial system.” Farquhar said.

The new IPTV system was installed by Team 4, a leading broadcast and AV systems integrator, and Affiniti, the communications integrator created from the coming together of Kingston Communications Business Service, Omnetica and Technica, who were responsible for the entire system’s integration as well as supplying the network.

For more information about Exterity and its idaptor and tridaptor TVgateways, visit http://www.exterity.co.uk/.

Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for TMCnet and a columnist covering the telecom industry. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.

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