Managing Interactive Services
DigiHost is an open standards based, headend, iTV management platform, designed to offer an interoperable base from which to run interactive television. It simplifies the development and manages the delivery of interactive TV services to target set-top-boxes. DigiHost provides the elements essential for deployment of successful interactive services. Whether you choose to develop applications, using authoring tools or third party application developers, DigiHost will simplify the development process and the integration of service and content providers. DigiHost allows operators to deploy new and existing applications through multiple playout’s and headends to an extensive range of set-top boxes without being restricted by proprietary technologies.

DigiHost has all the necessary building blocks (Sub-Systems) to build run and manage a full spectrum of iTV services. With full training from Digisoft.tv, DigiHost users will be able to manage the full iTV life cycle.

Digisoft have developed DigiHost in order to ease the move to Interactive TV for TV operators and broadcasters. DigiHost manages the entire iTV product lifecycle from development through deployment to documentation. All the operators’ and broadcasters needs are met by one solution, software and/or hardware and/or integration, easing the pain of deploying and managing the iTV services. DigiHost is a user friendly, browser based application, which minimises the staff overheads and training and allows the iTV operator retain complete control over all aspects of their iTV services, through centralised services.

Implementing Interactive TV often seems like an enormous undertaking for implementers, who must learn the details of this new technology and deal with a whole assortment of consultancies, application developers, iTV specialists and software providers in order to develop their iTV offering. Implementers must face many potential problems and issues never before encountered in implementing iTV. For example how can payments from t-commerce applications be managed securely, how can advertising managers add and edit interactive advertising campaigns, how will the iTV applications be added to the broadcast stream and how will these applications be supported and fulfilled once they are deployed?

DigiHost provides a head-end application support platform for the implementer's Interactive TV service containing all elements that are essential for deployment of commercial applications including billing, profiling and advertising. This Java based system is designed to run on any Java server(s) using J2EE technologies, to be used by all interactive applications and their administrators.

DigiHost allows for the deployment of enhanced TV and full interactive TV with choice of return path. This coupled with it’s ability to simultaneously manage multiple network systems means DigiHost is an ideal system to allow for the introduction of iTV services or the migration from legacy proprietary iTV systems to open source MHP, facilitating a powerful business model.

DigiHost allows the iTV operator the maximum amount of flexibility to deliver viewers the best possible iTV experience.