iWedia Extends Lifecycle of Legacy STB Devices for Hrvatski Telekom

Lausanne, Switzerland, August 28^th – iWedia, a leader in software engineering and content delivery solutions, is proud to announce the successful completion of a significant project for Hrvatski Telekom (HT), leading Croatian telecom and part of Deutsche Telekom group. This project involved extending the lifecycle of HT’s extensive fleet of hundreds of thousands legacy IPTV STB devices by upgrading to new DRM protected ABR streaming technologies via seamless integration of iWedia’s products (media player and browser) combined with the new TV platform.

With the need to replace the existing TV platform and focusing on capabilities and feature set of the new one, iWedia played a crucial role in managing the project execution as well as implementing the low-level software enabled security and UI application changes for different STB software devices in the field.

“Our engineering team expertly adapted existing STB software to integrate with newly selected TV platform APIs, ensuring a seamless transition for HT’s customers,” said Hans-Juergen Desor, CEO at iWedia. “In addition to the TV platform and back-office migration, the team successfully managed to enrich the functionality of HT’s IPTV STB devices by integrating iWedia’s media player and browser, ensuring smooth video playback for on-demand and catchup services protected by Widevine DRM,” he added.

“The cooperation with iWedia, coupled with their professionalism and engineering expertise enabled a smooth transition to new TV platform and adding of unicast IP functionalities to our STB devices. As a result we continued building further on providing the best customer experience on the best network, further enhancing MAXtv, our IPTV  solution,” said Sinisa Klekovic, Head of TV platform services at Hrvatski Telekom.

About Hrvatski Telekom

HT Group is the leading telecommunications provider in Croatia providing fixed and mobile telephony, wholesale, internet and data services. Main activity of Hrvatski Telekom d.d. (Croatian Telecom Inc.) and other subsidiary companies is the provision of telecommunications services, design and construction of communications networks on the Croatian territory. The Group also provides fixed telephone line service (access and traffic through fixed telephone lines and additional fixed network), Internet services including IPTV, data transmission services (lease of lines, Metro-Ethernet, IP / MPLS, ATM) and operates GSM and UMTS mobile telephone networks.