PRESS RELEASE - IPTV Consultants BCi join the Marlin Partner Program
IPTV consultants BCi announced today that they are to join the Marlin Partner Program (MPP).
The Marlin DRM platform is an interoperable and open digital content sharing platform which provides a solution to protecting and sharing content across multiple media devices. The Marlin Partner Program is a market development and technology program available to leading technology solutions providers, System Integrators, VoD & IPTV consultancies and content management firms to help them promote the Marlin DRM solution.
BCi’s IPTV consultants will integrate the Marlin solution into their IPTV test lab in Southampton, UK as part of BCi’s continued investment in the latest IPTV and VoD infrastructure.
Mark Hooper, BCi’s Operations Director said:
“As leading VoD & IPTV Consultants and System Integrators it is imperative that BCi continue to grow our expertise with important leading edge technology in our market. The Marlin platform will be a very welcome addition to our Southampton IPTV test lab and our VoD & IPTV consultants and engineers will be able to develop considerable expertise in the Marlin solution.
BCi supports the use of open technology, such as Marlin, as it brings considerable benefits to the consumer and the wider community. Open standards invariably bring additional innovations, lower entry and ongoing costs and the option to introduce or remove technologies with greater efficiency”
BCi are privately owned VoD and IPTV consultants and systems integrators based in Southampton, England and established in 1997. BCi’s customers include the BBC, Sky Digital, Microsoft, Tandberg, Telenet, Siemens Business Services and Red Bee Media.
Marlin is an open DRM solution provider owned by Intertrust, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung and Sony. The five manufacturers joined together in 2005 to develop specifications for next generation content and rights management technology.
BCi Limited
Southampton, United Kingdom
8th June 2009
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For more information please contact:
Mark Hooper
Director of Operations
BCi Limited
+44 (0) 2380 988606
mark.hooper@bci.eu.com
www.bci.eu.com
