Sun Microsystems India and Tech Mahindra have announced a strategic alliance to enable the rollout of IPTV services to the Indian and Asia Pacific markets.

As part of this alliance, Sun and Tech Mahindra along with AMD will jointly set up a next generation IPTV lab at the Tech Mahindra facility in Pune.

The IPTV lab at Tech Mahindra would feature solutions from solution partners including, Digisoft, Envivio, Harmonic, I-Make, Verimatrix and Mototech, and Sun’s own Streaming System. The lab will showcase a pre-integrated end-to-end IPTV system for Tier1, tier2 and Tier3 service providers. This lab will also allow potential customers, OEMs and ISVs to test the Sun Streaming System’s capabilities, architect and validate an end-to-end solution.

According to K P Unnikrishnan, director, Strategic Alliances, Sun Microsystems India, “Through this alliance with Tech Mahindra, we are looking forward to showcasing an end-to-end IPTV solution based on carrier grade Sun systems featuring the revolutionary Sun Streaming System. This is Sun"s first such alliance in the country for IPTV services.”

“Tech Mahindra through its sustained investments in R&D has developed IPTV capabilities across several areas that include consulting services, system integration capabilities, network technology areas in next generation elements, network and application performance optimisation, interactive application development and BSS/OSS systems,” remarked  Shankar Allimatti, VP, Next Generation Technologies, Tech Mahindra.