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Zentive Supports Virgin Media in Next Generation Digital Television Provisioning

Zentive, the leading supplier of digital software platforms and services products to Communication Service Providers, today announced that it has delivered trugateway, a provisioning activation platform that will enable a broad range of next generation digital service offerings to be deployed in creative ways.

Fareham, UK (PRWEB) January 27, 2010 — Zentive, the leading supplier of digital software platforms and services products to Communication Service Providers, today announced that it has delivered trugateway, a provisioning activation platform that will enable a broad range of next generation digital service offerings to be deployed in creative ways. The platform allows Virgin Media to offer its customers an ever increasing array of digital service types and is capable of marshaling the complex interactions with the OSS and BSS systems.

Stephen Featham, Director of TV & Entertainment Development at Virgin Media said, “Virgin Media is a pioneer in providing innovative digital TV services and we will benefit from Zentive’s state-of-the-art design as our TV service continues to grow and develop. Zentive has the right experience and expertise to deliver a complete solution and help support our next generation of entertainment.”

In architecting the solution Zentive has ensured that it can handle the connectivity requirements of one or more subscriber management systems and one or more conditional access systems. The built-in rules engine allows Virgin Media to customize how the activation is handled from a business perspective with the added advantage that as part of its fault tolerant design it supports transaction roll-back

With the demand accelerating for ever more digital service and content delivery, Zentive’s trugateway provides the perfect platform for Operators planning on exploiting the huge business opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

About Zentive:
Zentive Limited has offices in the UK and US and has customers worldwide. For further information please visit www.zentive.com

About Virgin Media
Virgin Media is the largest Virgin company in the world and has almost 10 million customers. For further information please visit www.virginmedia.co.uk

Contacts:
Zentive: Dr Philip Allman
e: Philip.allman (at) zentive (dot) com
Tel: +44 (0) 1489 569 444

Virgin Media: Emma Hutchinson
e: Emma.Hutchinson (at) Virginmedia (dot) com

Notes to editors:

1) trugateway is a state-of-the-art provisioning software platform that can be deployed in almost any Digital TV environment

2) Network provisioning or Service mediation are terms referring to provisioning of the customer’s services to the network elements such a digital TV

3) Communications Service Provider or CSP’s are companies that transports information electronically. The term encompasses public and private companies in the wireline, wireless, Internet, cable, satellite, and managed services businesses.

4) Zentive is a leading software platforms provider and integration business, helping Communication Service Provides become more agile and dynamic through the use of products and its specialist know how.

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