The Ericsson video spin-off vendor was supposed to be operating a multi-tenant cloud TV platform that would initiate at DT’s Hungarian operation in 2019, before expanding across Deutsche Telekom’s European footprint over the preceding two years. While these cloud-based contracts are currently constrained to Austria, with Broadpeak, CTS, Synamedia, and Metrological in the back-end – among others – the situation also looks ominous for MediaKind. With an existing footprint of pay TV set tops and streaming dongles in its many fields, Deutsche Telekom can save a fortune by delivering advanced functionality to homes without brand new hardware – by converging services in the cloud. We are reading Deutsche Telekom’s recent upgrades in Austria as evidence that the operator is preparing to fully commit to Android TV in a big way, on a multi-device basis that allows subscribers to access the streaming features of Magenta TV on any device – including live TV, VoD, time-shift, start-over, catch-up, and cloud recordings. Our instinct is that, in Austria, the RDK-based platform powered by Synamedia and Metrological was a temporary fix to tide over the legacy Horizon system, reducing churn and introducing new features, while also getting familiar with RDK’s in-roads into broadband and connected home functions. There is nothing unusual about a multi-vendor strategy across a multi-country and multi-faceted footprint, although this latest CTS-driven Android TV update would appear to contradict Deutsche Telekom’s very public desire to consolidate its various video operations into a single European video platform, with one cloud-based back-end that harmonizes IPTV, cable and DTH around OTT delivery. Austria looked set to be a stronghold for RDK in the Deutsche Telekom footprint, as Magenta Telekom got to work building its RDK platform based on technologies from Metrological (another Comcast subsidiary) and Synamedia, taking advantage of the open source technology’s numerous standardized functions. CTS Cloud TV is described as a comprehensive video management platform for centralized ingest of video assets, workflow and metadata management, video processing, content protection, entitlements, availability windows, rights enforcement, data analytics, and publishing.ĭeutsche Telekom’s rule of thumb has generally been that Android TV is preferred for greenfield deployments, while RDK takes precedence for brownfield deployments. Increasingly, we are seeing the operator’s video lines converge, akin to Vodafone’s ‘one cloud-based back-end to rule them all’ approach in Europe.ĭeutsche Telekom’s deployment of the skills from Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) this week, as its latest back-end supplier for Android TV software, builds on the recent rollout of Broadpeak’s Cloud PVR technology – to bridge the gap between the legacy Horizon service and the Android-based Magenta TV platform in Austria, following the merger of T-Mobile Austria with UPC Austria in 2019.įor the new Magenta TV platform, the core German market and other Deutsche Telekom territories will come later in 2022, after the CTS Cloud TV Suite and Broadpeak’s Cloud PVR are fully bedded in at Magenta TV in Austria. The German giant is famous for operating a multi-OS strategy – rolling out pay TV platform updates based on both Android TV Operator Tier and RDK. Situations are never simple when Deutsche Telekom is in town.
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