Jens Perlewitz is Senior Solution Sales Manager at T-Systems Competence Center IPTV, a business unit of Deutsche Telekom AG. His solution practice is driven by T-Systems IPTV end-to-end approach on systems integration and innovation services. These competences are evolving from TV-headend developments, continuing with IPTV service innovation and research to various middleware platform evaluations and its solution integration by T-Systems.
While working with his IPTV customers he recognized two focus points of 2008. First, the importance of open interfaces and platform coding to create a services differentiation by carriers IT departments itself. Second, network design, topology and its elements are even more important to be analysed and adjusted towards wholesale and new services.
