Envivio and Telemak today announced that the companies have reached an agreement that addresses the content encoding and distribution needs of mobile operators, broadcasters and internet service providers. Under the agreement, Telemak will sell, integrate and support Envivio products to its customers. Telemak is also deploying Envivio mobile TV and web TV headend solutions at its own operations center in Belgium. The installation includes Envivio 4Caster C4 convergence encoding solutions and the new Envivio iLiveTV solution for the Apple iPhone.
"This is an essential upgrade of Telemak's own Mobile TV and Web TV headend operations center, as well as a significant enhancement to our encoding solution catalogue," says Christophe Lenaerts, Telemak CEO. "Envivio is the world leader in encoding solutions for Telemak's markets. We needed to offer our customers the possibility to either buy Envivio solutions through Telemak or to get full headend operations from our dedicated team. Thanks to this agreement, Telemak will now be able to provide its customers with the highest quality live television and radio services to any mobile or web TV subscriber."
Telemak is a specialist in mobile TV and web TV delivery, currently managing the aggregation and delivery of 40 television and radio channels for Mobistar subscribers in Belgium. Telemak's worldwide offerings includes everything from aggregation to 24/7 supervision, encoding, technical management, hosting and delivery.
"Telemak recognized that a superior headend solution is critical to delivering the high quality, high value services that attract and retain subscribers," said Rich Stanfield, COO of Envivio. "We are very pleased the Telemak has selected Envivio encoding solutions to expand its service offerings and enhance it operations."