Vancouver, CANADA, December 2nd, 2014 – Inca Networks announced today that CCA Limited (CCA) has built and launched HD IPTV service to exclusive private resorts on Canouan Island, St. Vincent and the Grenadines—effectively upgrading the properties from traditional cable video service to pure IPTV.
CCA built their IP video service around the Inca MPEG-4 encoder and Inca satellite demuxer products, allowing them to provide state-of-the-art HD TV service for guests and residents of the world-class private island resort located approximately 120 miles east of Barbados. Private home residents and guests at The Carenage Bay Resort and hotel and villa guests at the Tamarind Beach Hotel now enjoy access to superior quality HD video as part of a modern, self-sufficient utility infrastructure.
“While our core business is providing professional IP video infrastructure to larger telcos and cable television companies in North America, we have a long history working with resort and hotel developers to bring the latest HD IPTV systems to luxury hospitality projects around the world,” says Jeff Campbell, CEO of Inca Networks. “With IP video deployments operating in more than 20 countries, Inca prides itself on delivering carrier-grade video solutions in challenging and unique environments. We are pleased to add exclusive resort properties on the island of Canouan to our long list of global clients using Inca solutions to bridge traditional and next-generation services and deliver reliable, high-quality HD and SD video on an Ethernet infrastructure.”
CCA provides cable TV, along with telephone, security and fire alarm systems, as part of the high-end luxury hotel properties on Canouan. CCA receives their signals from a variety of different satellite, off-air and Internet sources; the challenge was to manage the conversion from traditional cable TV to local IPTV. CCA uses Inca’s digital processing equipment to convert and reformat MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 commercial satellite feeds, off-air, and Internet streaming channels to IP streams for use on their MPEG-4 IPTV network.
“Given our remote location, my main concern was being able to access content from a variety of sources to meet the high demands of our international clientele, and to be able to deliver that content as high-quality video to our guests and villa owners. Inca’s video processing equipment is exceptional – head and shoulders above the competitors’ products,” says Mr. Omoro Alleyne, Telecommunications System Supervisor with CCA Limited.
According to Alleyne, one of the greatest benefits of working with Inca comes from the breadth of products and proven real-world experience they offer to help solve any video challenge that may arise. Another advantage has been the deep visibility into each step of the processing chain with VidiOS™, Inca’s advanced processing and monitoring engine. VidiOS™ provides active stream tools and embedded visual status monitoring—helping video engineers manage the headend more efficiently.
“I have spent most of my career in the cable TV industry and Inca’s VidiOS™ is unique in the business. We appreciate being able to manage things remotely and make changes without having to physically touch any equipment,” says Alleyne. “Inca has made my job much easier and the new video platform has been a hit with guests and owners across the island.”
Operating in remote locations such as Canouan Island with limited staff and resources is a challenge and vendor support is critical.
“Support has been excellent. What Inca promises, they actually deliver—every time. And we are able to deliver top-notch picture quality at an affordable price, which is essential for our resort,” says Alleyne.
About CCA Limited
CCA Limited is a Canouan Company providing construction, architecture and maintenance services. Their principal activity is the construction and maintenance of a first-class, international residential resort and club on Canouan, an island situated in the center of the Grenadines of St. Vincent. This exclusive Caribbean resort is home to multimillion-dollar villas and very high-end, luxury hotel properties. www.ccalimited.com.
About Inca Networks
Inca Networks, a WISI company, is reinventing the future of multiscreen video delivery. Inca offers industry-leading Intelligent Video Delivery™, a revolutionary software-centric solution for intelligent, real-time processing of linear and multiscreen television content. At its core is VidiOS™, an advanced software processing and monitoring engine that provides deep visibility and control of all video flows, combined with powerful, modular hardware. Inca’s IP video solutions address all aspects of next-generation video, including high-density MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 HD and SD transcoder modules for linear and multiscreen adaptive bit-rate (ABR) and HTTP live streaming (HLS) services; demultiplexing and remapping of MPTS video from satellite and off-air sources to SPTS streams in digital cable, DSL and fiber to the home (FTTH) IPTV networks; multi-viewer mosaic and status monitoring software, digital music service demuxing, and modular ASI to IP conversion.
In July 2015, the Wilhelm Sihn jr. (WISI) company of Germany acquired Vancouver’s Inca Networks Inc. Founded in 1926, WISI is one of the world’s pioneers in broadband reception and distribution technology. Today, WISI’s field of business is the development, production and distribution of products and solutions in the following areas: automotive antenna and cabling, components for broadband networks, fiber optics for broadband, digital signal reception, processing and modulation for TV and radio, in-house multimedia. Inca Networks sells and distributes WISI’s Tangram and Chameleon platforms to the North American, Caribbean and Latin American markets. Video providers around the globe use Inca to easily and affordably deliver content to any screen on any network, all with a superior customer viewing experience and a second-to-none view of the network.
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For more information please contact Rosalinda Thorleifson, Tel. +1-604-418-9715 rosalinda.thorleifson@incanetworks.com
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