The inext team has successfully completed a media project of developing software and an exclusive set-top box for SkyTel, a telecommunications operator from Georgia.
Ukrainian media players’ developers — the inext company — announced the successful completion of a project for the Georgian telecommunications company SkyTel. The new media player TV5 SkyTel received individual software (firmware) and full branding of the device, interface and packaging.
At the first stage of the project, the operator ordered more than a thousand TV5 SkyTel set-top boxes for its Internet network, which is considered the largest in Georgia. New set-top boxes will be controlled via proprietary Alcatraz service — this will help SkyTel create a unified monitoring system for network media devices.
At the beginning of 2022, the SkyTel company turned to ROMSAT – the official distributor of inext – with a request to develop an exclusive media player. The technical task consisted of several items: the development of a new device and the software modification of existing media players to bring both types of devices to a single standard and control system.
As practice shows, few media player suppliers are interested in additional software development and branding. So, the inext team developed a media player for SkyTel based on the popular inext TV5 model with completely individual branding and software. Devices from another supplier, which were already on SkyTel’s balance, but were not used due to the lack of flexible software, have been studied in detail by inext specialists, who developed unified firmware and added the possibility of remote OTA update. Both types of media players are now controlled via proprietary Alcatraz service.
