Connected Home Academy is now a Member of the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF)

September 25th, 2012 /Targetwire/ - The Connected Home Academy is proud to announce its membership in the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) participating in the Forum's on-going work to shape the future of global, mass-market Internet Connected TV.

As members of the OIPF, Connected Home Academy supports the evolutionary path towards a harmonized goal of open, interoperable  solutions, which will lead to a much more positive and productive future for all players in the media value chain.

Sam Hurrell, IPTV Learning Program Director says "We aim to work with the OIPF membership to enable a certified education program for the IPTV / OTT industry, delivering knowledge of OIPF specifications and related technology in both practical and theoretical contexts via the Connected Home Academy."

"Organizations cannot fully implement or relate to industry standards until they understand them. The specifications work of the OIPF to date is an ideal base for us to build the right multi-level learning toolkit to allow companies to understand customer requirements, boost customer engagement, and work with technology partners across the industry in the most effective way.”

_{About The Connected Home Academy
The Connected Home Academy offers 4 professional certifications and over 35 individual courses to Broadcast, Telco and Connected Home professionals. Connected Home Certified Executive, Connected Home Certified Associate, Connected Home Certified Professional and Connected Home Certified Expert).
The Business Leaders series encompasses six short courses that are designed to give leadership a high level introduction to the technologies and insight into how these technologies can be monetized, and the shape of the current market.}

_{The Technical Series offers training starting with technical overviews to deep level ‘hands-on’ engineering courses around classic managed IPTV, unmanaged OTT TV (Over-the-top TV), video encoding and head-end, content protection such as CAS and DRM, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), Access and Core network technologies, Home Area Networking (HAN), Voice over IP (VoIP), WiFi, Femto, and ZigBee.}

_{Connected Home Academy is a Perpetual Solutions brand.}

_{About Perpetual Solutions
Perpetual Solutions is an established education provider with a specialist range of communications technology training. Our HQ is in London however our pool of 450+ specialist instructors delivers training in over 60 countries. We achieve high standards and quality in everything we deliver, from customer service to post-delivery, with a multinational team that embraces diversity at its core. Our communications training catalogue includes courses on NGN core network architecture, access networks, IP & convergence including IPTV & SIP, wireless technologies, IT systems, software development and professional development and 'soft' skills. We deliver education programs across EMEA, US & Asia/Pac regions to customers such as Vodafone Group, BT, Cable & Wireless, and Orange.}

_{Clients include:
Broadcast: BBC, BSkyB, RiksTV, Arquiva, SIS Live
Telco: BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Etihad Etisalat, Vodafone Group
Vendors: Cisco, Conax, ALU, Ericsson, Amino, Thomson}

_{About OIPF
The Open IPTV Forum enables and accelerates creation of a mass market for IPTV by defining and publishing free-of-charge standards-based specifications for end-end IPTV services of the future.}

_{Members of the Open IPTV Forum are working together on the development of open specifications because they recognise that combining the expertise of all parties involved will help to streamline and accelerate deployments of IPTV technologies. Their aim is to make the next generation of IPTV a mass-market service and to maximise the benefits of IPTV and Connected TVs for consumers as well as the industry.}

_{As a collaborative industry body the OIPF has incorporated existing standards wherever possible – OIPF standards are also being adopted by complementary groups including HbbTV.
For more information about the OIPF, including a complete listing of all current OIPF members, please visit the OIPF web site.}

_{Press Contact
Helen Gofton
Web: www.perpetual-solutions.com
E-mail: helen.gofton@perpetual-solutions.com
Tel: +44 (0) 207 620 0033}

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