Mr. Mick McCluskey reports

GVTC COMMUNICATIONS CHOOSES ENGHOUSE NETWORKS AND BROADPEAK TO DELIVER A WORLD-CLASS VIDEO STREAMING EXPERIENCE

Enghouse Systems Ltd.'s Enghouse Networks has had its SaaS (software as a service) IPTV (Internet protocol television) platform, EspialTV, has been chosen by GVTC Communications to bring video streaming services to its customer base.

The Enghouse solution allows GVTC to provide more options to its subscribers, including the ability to record and view shows on any connected device, including Amazon's Fire TV, Roku, AppleTV, phones and tablets. Subscribers will also benefit from the ability to watch TV programs and movies in leading-edge quality and enjoy new features like voice-enabled remote control plus easy access to popular OTT (over-the-top) streaming services.

The new GVTC system also relies on Broadpeak's content delivery network (CDN) and cloud DPVR (digital personal video recorder) solutions. Broadpeak is a leading provider of CDN and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay TV operators worldwide. "Enghouse and Broadpeak have many successful joint deployments," said Mario Rainville, vice-president, North America, Broadpeak. "Our solutions work together to ensure a more personalized, state-of-the-art experience for subscribers."

GVTC has looked to Enghouse and Broadpeak to upgrade its current cable TV offering to a fully managed streaming TV platform hosted in the cloud. With superior image and sound quality plus enhanced network security, Enghouse Networks' EspialTV and Broadpeak will deliver video content (including live, catch-up, digitally recorded (NDVR, or network digital video recorder) and video-on-demand) to all of GVTC's stream subscribers.

"We are committed to empowering the communities in our service area with leading-edge technology for today's interconnected world," said Ritchie Sorrells, president and chief executive officer of GVTC. "Our continued partnership with Enghouse Networks and Broadpeak allows us to deliver on this promise. With IPTV, our customers will now be able to access all their favourite shows on their favourite devices."

"As the TV experience evolves, so does GVTC," said Josh Pettiette, vice-president, product business development and strategic planning, GVTC. "In the 1980s, we built the infrastructure for cable TV, then high-speed Internet in the nineties and then Netflix's No. 1 ranked fibre Internet in the 2000s. EspialTV allows us to provide the next step in this journey with its hosted IPTV platform."

"We are gratified that GVTC selected Enghouse's EspialTV for this project based on our track record of delivering outstanding television experiences," said Mick McCluskey, vice-president, product management, Enghouse Networks. "Enghouse is renowned for being flexible in meeting operators' needs. Our operations and deployment team has a unique skill set and thorough understanding of the video streaming environment that will aid us in providing GVTC with a market-leading and highly flexible TV solution."

The Enghouse SaaS EspialTV platform offers GVTC a full set of content management capabilities, deep insight through analytics, and flexibility to easily segment and target various markets. It supports operators of all sizes -- and its flexible, cloud-based architecture will allow GVTC to control operational costs as its TV customer base grows.

About Enghouse Networks Ltd.

Enghouse Networks is a reliable global telecommunications technology and solutions provider. Its commitment is to successfully deliver solutions that can enable digital transformation, ultimately building a connected global community. From edge to cloud, the company's applications reliably enable next-generation communications and media companies, defence, public safety agencies and utilities to plan, design, engineer, monitor, protect and simplify network complexity in a vendor-agnostic 5G, IoT (Internet of Things), cloud, AI (artificial intelligence), NFV (network function virtualization) and SDN (software-defined network) ecosystem. The Enghouse Networks technology portfolio spans network infrastructure, business support systems (BSS), operations support systems (OSS) and digital transformation solutions. Enghouse Networks is a unit of Enghouse Systems of Markham, Ont.