November 4, 2008

ViewCast Deploys in Milwaukee Suburb

The Milwaukee suburb of West Allis has deployed a ViewCast Niagara streaming media encoder to expand the audience for public, educational, and government access (PEG) TV programming. The encoder has enabled the city to port its government access programs to AT&T's U-verse residential IPTV service, recently launched in the greater Milwaukee area.

A city of 60,000 in Milwaukee County, and the site of the Wisconsin State Fair, West Allis offers a wide range of government access programming to its citizens. The programs are locally produced, as well as supplied by state and federal agencies, and include information about state and city services, community events, and coverage of city council meetings. The ViewCast Niagara system encodes the video for transport over a T-1 network to the U-verse system, which began serving the West Allis viewing area in February.