Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC - message board) is rolling out video-on-demand (VOD) services for the first time in some of its smaller markets, thanks to a new back-office configuration from Tandberg Television and a centralized, satellite-based video delivery system.
Initially, Time Warner Cable's National Division is using the Tandberg kit to offer VOD in four markets: Clarksburg, W.Va.; Dothan, Ala.; Fort Benning, Ga.; and Terre Haute, Ind. The MSO expects to expand it to 10 additional markets by year's end. (See table.)
Time Warner's National Division consists mostly of smaller, more scattered cable systems.
The MSO is offering VOD services in some of those systems using a special configuration of Tandberg's OpenStream system, but managing VOD services centrally from the National Division's headquarters in http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifDenver. The operator is also using Tandberg's "Xport Producer" system to deliver local on-demand content to each system.
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