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Hispasat has joined forces with streaming and content protection company Nagra, to develop a wholesale OTT (over-the-top) television solution targeted at customers in Latin America. The solution, announced March 9, will be available to customers this spring.

Hispasat said the service will enable pay-TV operators, ISPs, and regional content companies to offer clients a high-quality multi screen entertainment service that is distributed through the internet without having to roll out their own infrastructure. This is designed to reduce both the initial investment and the time needed to launch this type of solution.

Within the framework of this collaboration, Hispasat will provide the video processing infrastructure at its teleport in Lurin, Peru, including the receipt of linear content (TV channels) and on-demand content, as well as its coding and publication. Hispasat will be responsible for the entire operation of the service from the teleport of Lurin. Through its UX framework, Nagra will be responsible for developing user applications for set-top box and streaming devices, including smart TVs.

“This agreement opens a new branch in our offer as a wholesale video service provider, which was consolidated at the start of last year with the acquisition of the of the video signal transport and management business of Media Networks Latin America, and strengthens our leading position in the region,” Javier Izquierdo, managing director of Hispasat Peru said in a statement.