Last week, the company announced its decision to become a full member of the Open IPTV Forum

The forum will explore issues facing the deployment of IPTV throughout the world

With the publication, the Open IPTV Forum hopes to open up access to widespread use of the interactive and personalized services offered via IPTV

Meeting in Berlin this month, the Open IPTV Forum said it had finalized system and protocol specifications, which will be publicly available in November

The new test suite and associated test harness are intended for both open OTT services as well as managed IPTV system.

The masterclass will examine changing business models as well as the role of IP in future infrastructure developments and advanced HD compression technology

With the addition of MTV Networks and others, a total of 290 programmers are distributing their channels via IP-Prime.

The companies are combining their technology to offer streaming video feeds to enterprise users, telco subscribers and hotel guests.