Israeli operator YES tests new Cisco Infinite Video Platform Labs platform

Working closely with Cisco, YES has designed and tested new functionality that provides a customized user interface for different audience segments and viewers.

YES, a leading multi-channel satellite television provider in Israel, has been one of the first operators to take advantage of the new satellite platform. Cisco Infinite Video Platform (IVP) Labs. Working closely with the IVP product team, YES designed and tested new functionality that provides a customized user interface for different audience segments and viewers. This new functionality is fully integrated with your custom recommendation engine.

Cisco helps build the network platform of the future – simpler, more automated and virtualized – through market-leading software, hardware, systems and services. This allows service providers, multimedia companies and media companies around the world to reduce costs, accelerate time-to-market, ensure the security of their networks and generate new sources of income.

In a market as dynamic and innovative as video, no one knows exactly what television will be like in 2020. To help find out, IVP Labs offers its participants the possibility of testing new functionalities with users before their implementation and commercial launch.

Clients and end users can thus provide essential feedback to optimize new functionalities. IVP Labs is based on an agile development model, integrated A-B testing capability and a modular micro-services architecture, quickly generating additional value for customers.

Yitschak Elyakim, Chief Technology Officer at YES, has assured that "one of the benefits of using Infinite Video Platform is the possibility of innovating more quickly and at lower costs. Being able to obtain immediate feedback and adapt functionality accordingly is a key success factor in the new world of video, leaving behind the need to hire expensive and time-consuming professional services to make small changes."

Rajeev Raman, senior director of Product and Strategy for Video Software for Service Providers at Cisco, adds that "every two weeks we announce new features of Infinite Video Platform. IVP Labs demonstrates our commitment to continually expand the capabilities of the platform while optimizing its quality. Our goal is to create a community where our customers, and end users, can directly contribute to designing the IVP product roadmap and defining the future of video."