Kasenna LivingRoom SDK - Customize Your Next-Generation IPTV Solution

LivingRoom™ is designed as a true service and application delivery platform that provides applications not only for today's services but also for tomorrow's IPTV services. While LivingRoom provides a suite of compelling user interfaces and applications, the PC and web market has proven that innovation and change is a constant. Operators now need a guarantee that their IPTV service remains competitive, exciting and relevant. To do this, operators must be able to add innovative features, deploy new services and promote their own brand. Until now, the industry had limited options to accomplish this.

With the LivingRoom SDK™, Kasenna® brings a completely new way of developing and deploying TV services using the power of web services. The LivingRoom SDK is a complete Development Kit that brings interactive IPTV application development to mainstream computing through a powerful, web services-based On-Demand Services Framework. With the SDK, operators can easily customize, integrate, and deploy on-demand applications with customized design and functionality.

Kasenna unlocks video services creation and deployment to usher in a whole new world of on-demand applications.

Easily customize, integrate, and deploy on-demand applications with customized design, functionality, and your own brand

Benefits:

• Stay competitive and reduce the risk of your service becoming obsolete
• Keep your service exciting - add seasonal and event based graphics
• Easily add new features and services as they materialize
• Standards-based approach avoids lock-in from traditional, proprietary vendors
• Leverages well-known web services technology
• Reduces initial and long-term deployment costs

Highly Customizable for Tomorrow's Needs

More significantly, operators have the option of customizing and extending the LivingRoom STB GUI as well as the LivingRoom Application Server in order to stay on the leading edge in order to provide a highly differentiated service which will keep your customers from switching to another provider. Customization ranges adding seasonal graphics and branding the GUI to adding new features and services using the LivingRoom Software Development Kit.

The LivingRoom SDK is based on an open, J2EE web services application server, for easy and quick development. As an industry standard and well-known development environment for building and integrating applications, Web Services are now applied to the realm of TV with Kasenna's LivingRoom SDK.

Keep your User Interface Fresh

By changing simple XML and graphics files, you can change the entire LivingRoom look and feel, branding, and service offerings. Service providers can use the portal provided with LivingRoom, or they modify the LivingRoom portal to create a custom look and feel. In some cases, you may want to created and replace some components of living room, or develop your own portal using the APIs provided with LivingRoom. The LivingRoom SDK describes how to customize the portal for your specific needs, such as replacing icon images. It also describes how to create your own portal using the movies-on-demand (MOD) application APIs and writing adapters for connecting to other entities, such as a billing system.

Add new Features, Services and Applications

Using Java-based APIs, operators can add new services without being tied to the proprietary applications offered by traditional middleware vendors. Operators can also integrate LivingRoom with popular back-end management, billing, and business logic applications. With this powerful combination, Kasenna puts operators in control of their IPTV offering today while preparing them for advanced services of tomorrow.