Professional Sevices
Put our team to work for you
Zodiac’s Professional Services team has unparalleled experience in working seamlessly with cable operators to reduce the inherent complexity of developing and deploying ITV, gaming, and on-demand entertainment platforms. Zodiac Professional Services provides an end-to-end engagement throughout a deployment’s full lifecycle and beyond.
Zodiac Professional Services comprises over 150 dedicated engineers, technicians, designers, and support staff. Contact us to see how Zodiac Professional Services can work for you.
Product Ideation
Benefit from our experience and a wide variety of deployments
Zodiac’s experience in taking new and unique concepts from thought leadership and product ideation to prototype, testing and enterprise wide deployment uniquely positions Zodiac with the perspective of real products that have been in live situations on millions of devices. We understand what is possible while being mindful of what is practical and useful. With our years of successful deployment history married with real consumer feedback, we have finely tuned our technical and product understanding and mix. From UI Design to Stream Transformation, we can bring our over 100 man-years of experience to turn your product ideas into reality.
Evaluation of Future Technologies
Our academic approach to research and development can offer you objective evaluations of technology
Our engineers have decades of research and development in finding advanced solutions for the real world and have been involved in the evaluation of future technology. This includes UI technology, aggregation and compression technology, stream transformation and other technologies that can open new opportunities that seemed closed without new developments. The ability to be objective without product influence is a trademark of our professional services organization.
Optimizations
Set top software can gain the weight of years of requirements that may be obsolete or not optimal
It has been a time-worn tradition in the video services industry that new, more expensive hardware is a common way to improve performance. That has unfortunate consequences for business models. Zodiac’s expertise in software design and optimization has opened new paths for legacy platforms and reduced the requirements for upcoming hardware by optimizing the software. Increased software efficiencies have improved set top performance by as much as 500%.
Rapid Time To Market
Use Zodiac’s deployment and development expertise
With deployments and experience across some of the largest service providers, Zodiac’s insights provide quicker and stealthier solutions resulting in speed of development advantages over normal expectations. In addition, these insights dramatically cut the time from prototype to production because the initial approach is virtually fieldable.
Product Testing, Integration and Deployment
We have been through some of the toughest lab and network environments
Zodiac’s advantage of years of deployed products and platforms provides the ability to understand productization and testing like few others. Anticipating network needs as well as the specific requirements of the service provider allows us to ask the right questions and recommend the best solutions. In today’s world, you want a partner who has taken products through production to market many times as you would want the surgeon with the most experience.
