TEVU
On 1 February 2005, TE Data and Salec Egypt announced in Cairo ICT 2005, the launch of a trial TV over IP IPTV system. In this trial the company demonstrated the capability of its IP MPLS network to provide the next generation bandwidth intensive service. The trial involved the broadcasting of high quality TV channels and video-on-demand VOD on the TE Data network using a trial setup supplied by Salec Egypt.
In that trial Salec Egypt Integrated a solution based on equipment supplied from TANDBERG Television for the head-end system, where Live IPTV and Video on Demand VoD are streamed on TE Data's IP MPLS network and delivered to the end user using the ADSL infrastructure.
In November 2006, TE Data announced the launch of its new service TEVU, providing a range of Streaming and VOD content to existing and new ADSL subscribers over TE Data’s IP MPLS network and Telecom Egypt’s last mile copper lines.
TE Data launched an IP based video streaming service in Egypt and the Middle East during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The current TEVU content has 9 streaming channels including 4 ART sports channels, 1 Arabic movie channel (ART AFLAM), 1 Arabic TV shows channel (ART HEKAYAT), 1 western movie channel (ART MOVIE WORLD), 1 religious channel (IQRAA) and the famous Cable News Network CNN news channel. In addition to the live streaming channels, TEVU includes a VOD library that contains more than 40 Arabic films ranging from classics to new films. All of TEVU’s streaming and VOD content is provided by the Arab Radio and Television network ART.
TEVU service utilizes several Microsoft products ranging from Windows Server 2003, which includes Windows Media Services 9 Series responsible for multicasting live streams over the network, as well as providing unicast VOD content. Microsoft Media Encoder 9 responsible for transcoding live streams into WMV format, Microsoft Media Services 9. The content is encrypted using Microsoft's Digital Rights Management software, which protects live content as well as VOD content. TEVU customers watch the content using Microsoft's Windows Media Player
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