CSCO--Media alert - John Chambers, President and CEO of Cisco Systems, Demonstrated iMagicTV Software for Multi-Channel TV at Connections 2000
Executive conference attended by representatives from Cisco's top-100 service provider customers
SAINT JOHN, NB, Sept. 20 /CNW/ - iMagicTV, a provider of software products that allow telephone companies and other service providers to deliver multi-channel television and interactive media services, today announced that John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO - news), demonstrated Cisco's interaction with various new products, including iMagicTV's DTV Manager software.
The demonstration took place during his presentation to delegates at Cisco's Connections 2000 conference, held today at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco, California.
DTV Manager is an infrastructure software platform that delivers IP-based services, including multi-channel television, media-on-demand, and TV-based Web services over broadband IP networks. The demonstration showcased iMagicTV's DTV Manager along with PixStream's video networking equipment, and Cisco's DSL (digital subscriber line) hardware, including Cisco's DSLAM (DSL Access Multiplexer) and CPE (customer premises equipment).
"A key component of our corporate strategy is to work with industry leaders like Cisco who embrace the open and standards-based broadband TV solutions like iMagicTV's DTV Manager," said Marcel LeBrun, president and CEO of iMagicTV. "By using existing IP networks, telephone companies and other service providers can deliver service bundles to their subscribers that include multi-channel television services and two-way services like media-on- demand and T-commerce."
About iMagicTV
iMagicTV provides software products and related services that enable telephone companies and other service providers to deliver multi-channel digital television and interactive media services to their subscribers over a broadband network infrastructure. iMagicTV's software solutions can be deployed over high-speed broadband networks including ADSL, VDSL and Fiber to the Home (FTTH) technologies.
Incorporated in 1997, iMagicTV maintains its global headquarters in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, its U.S. headquarters in Raleigh (North Carolina) and its European headquarters in Cambridge (United Kingdom). iMagicTV also has sales offices in Denver (Colorado), Atlanta (Georgia) and McLean (Virginia). For more information on iMagicTV and its solution, visit www.imagictv.com. |
