Motorola Launches Operations and Business Support System Integration Solutions for Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Deployments

Motorola’s CCE software makes it easier to delivers personalized IPTV experience to customers.

HORSHAM, Pa. – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) Home & Networks Mobility business announced operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS) integration solutions for IPTV deployments with Microsoft Mediaroom. Motorola’s Communications Convergence Engine (CCE) enable operators to rapidly converge, design, package, deploy and manage a broad range of compelling content and services. Motorola’s CCE software integrates with Mediaroom to enable service providers to rapidly and economically deploy a more compelling, personalized IPTV experience. By working with Motorola, operators can minimize Mediaroom deployment risk while gaining greater flexibility in integrating Microsoft Mediaroom with new systems and applications.

As a global leader in IPTV solutions, Motorola offers service providers faster time-to-revenue IPTV deployments with flexible service/content packages for consumers, new billing options, and end-user personalization. Adding to Motorola’s extensive industry-leading IPTV solutions portfolio is Motorola’s CCE software platform, which allows IPTV operators to manage and personalize content across multiple domains, resulting in new service offerings and revenue opportunities. CCE is easily integrated into the operator’s existing back-office systems -- resulting in faster, more effective IPTV Mediaroom deployments. Motorola has developed the CCE product suite to automate processes for IPTV service provisioning and activation, which allows IPTV service providers to customize their storefront packages to generate additional subscriber revenue using “on the go” technologies.

“Motorola has demonstrated the maturity of its Mediaroom expertise and technology solutions, and is well placed to deliver back-office systems integration,” said Dan McCrary, director of the global partner ecosystem for Microsoft Mediaroom at Microsoft Corp. “As IPTV services have grown to provide ever more features and capabilities, Motorola has helped service providers accelerate subscriber growth of Mediaroom-based deployments.”

“We are pleased to continue to work so closely with Microsoft to ensure the most successful Mediaroom IPTV deployments possible,” said Alan Lefkof, corporate vice president & general manager, Motorola Broadband Home Gateways & Software. “Our IPTV software and services work is an important part of our industry-leading end-to-end IPTV solutions portfolio, from our IP set-tops to our headend solutions.

CCE enables operators to extend VOD into multimedia bundles and provides them with the ability to deliver personalized, targeted advertising using a subscriber’s demographics, geographic criteria, and purchase history. CCE's Storefront enables operators to boost subscriber consumption while providing a differentiated service offering. It enables the operator to maintain a competitive edge in their market, by providing a seamless / personalized 3-screen experience – PC, TV and mobile handset. In addition, Motorola’s professional services team’s system integration expertise is available to deliver a turnkey solution for service providers looking to seamlessly integrate CCE’s open Web services into their existing back-office systems.

To learn more about Motorola’s CCE software platform, visit the CCE solutions site.