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VO RiGHTv™ is a leading service delivery platform for content service providers delivering hybrid broadcast broadband/OTT services, pure OTT or IPTV. RiGHTv provides a comprehensive functionality-set enabling providers to deliver interactive TV services. RiGHTv provides:

• Content Management
• Customer Management: operators, subscribers and non-subscribers
• Business Management
• Customer Care

RiGHTv is based on a highly-customizable, scalable and open architecture featuring a rich set of advanced functions that can be implemented across a wide range of set-top boxes (STBs). It offers a rich set of APIs and plug-in based external interfaces providing operators and system integrators flexibility and control over the design, deployment and operation of their   TV services .

RiGHTv empowers operators to offer a full array of interactive TV services including - live TV, video on demand (VOD), personal video recording (PVR) and content discovery. From Greenfield players to established national Telcos, RiGHTv has been successfully deployed by broadband network operators, web-TV and triple-play service providers worldwide. 

• Launch - With a rich functionality set and flexible architecture  ; including an advanced Software Development Kit (SDK), RiGHTv enables rapid development, implementation, and dramatically reduces the time-to-market for creating new, customized  Hybrid TV, OTT and IPTV services. 
• Deliver - RiGHTv is a reliable, high-availability Telco-grade platform with superior scalability and advanced management capabilities promoting consistently high quality of experience (QoE). 
• Differentiate - The ever-expanding selection of VO and 3rd party applications enables operators to continuously upgrade their offering with latest next-generation features and services to stay ahead of the competition and increase customer satisfaction. 
• Grow - RiGHTv empowers operators to enter new, evolving markets leveraging expanded solutions that combine the DTH/ DTT broadcast services with Broadband / OTT networks in hybrid DVB/IP configurations and multi-device environments.

• End-user applications 

• • Live TV
    Provide and manage live TV, pay-per-view (PPV), and near-VOD (NVOD) channels over broadband networks for both IP and DVB channels. 
  • VOD
    Create and manage full video-on-demand and subscription VOD (SVOD) services that enable subscribers to order movies and programs from the comfort of home at any time. PVR
  • PVR
    Deliver and manage a network-based (NPVR), client-based (CPVR) or hybrid (network/client) personal-video-recording service. 
  • Advertising
    Deliver targeted ads to the TV screen based on user profiles and content preferences as well as advanced analytical tools with pre-roll, post-roll and banner ads.
  • Content DiscoveryTransform TV viewing into a fun, easy and fulfilling experience with VO COMPASS content discovery solution, which delivers personalized recommendations tailored to users' individual preferences, enabling quick and easy discovery of desirable TV content. 
  • Promotions
    Send targeted and personalized messages to subscribers promoting special campaigns and offers for new and existing services. 
  • Gaming
    Deliver single and multi-player games, one of the most popular interactive services, using a variety of flexible business models including subscriptions and pay per play.
  • TV Telephony
    Offer home users a rich package of converged TV-telephony functionalities including callers' names and numbers on the TV screen, accept, reject or divert calls, or initiate voice and video calls from the TV using an address book display and call register. 
  • Emergency Alert System
    Provide a national, regional or local emergency alert system (EAS) that can broadcast security- or weather-related messages targeted to specific areas. 

• Operations & management   

• • Third-party service hosting
    Leverage the RiGHTv service delivery platform (SDP) to seamlessly integrate, launch and manage third-party services – such as gaming, TV-telephony convergence, and promotions.
  • Business management
    Business tools for executing pricing, payment, bundling, and discount policies, as well as a Java-based API for subscriber administration integrated with CRM and billing systems.
  • Content management
    Administration tools for automatic life-cycle management of on-demand assets, and EPG data uploading for live content.
  • Subscriber self-service
    Independent subscriber self-service ordering and viewing TV packages and other services.
  • Reporting
    Built-in reports highlight service usage and SUI preferences, enabling operators to better understand subscriber behavior as a basis for improved service offerings, promotions and advertising.
  • Subscriber user interface
    An attractive TV-based user interface, offered over a wide range of STBs, delivering user-friendly viewing and unleashing the rich RiGHTv functionality.
  • Converged SUI SDK
    For branding purposes as well as the development and modification of applications, RiGHTv provides a SUI software development kit (SDK) facilitating user interface development for STBs, PCs and other IP-based devices.
  • Value-chain management
    Central management of IPTV value-chain components such as video servers, encoders, and conditional access / digital rights management (CA/DRM) systems.
  • Wholesale business model
    Operators can leverage RiGHTv to enable other service providers to deliver IPTV with their own look-and-feel, service portfolios, pricing models and business management.