Like every year, the focus is on regional internet providers that continue to grow in Brazil, but this year the event has a new home.The change to São Paulo Expo made the event bigger and placed it on another level, now in Hall 1 of São Paulo Expo, with more than 13,730 m², it is more in line with the magnitude of the ISP market in Brazil, perhaps the largest world market in this type of services.Until Saturday, May 28, ISPs, industry players, speakers, debaters and government officials will meet to analyze the ISP market in Brazil and the region.In the exhibition hall, the range of products and companies that occupy the new space of ABRINT 2022 is wide, from software companies, IT, video streaming and even large companies that are usually present at the main events of the audiovisual industry.In an exclusive interview with Prensario, André Rodrigues, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ABRINT, said that the market grew in 2022 and there is a post-pandemic consolidation that will reorder the market.He took stock of his mandate that began in 2019 and defined it as positive, despite the pandemic, which changed the market and transformed it so much that the changes that would be made in 10 years had to be made in two.'The ISP market is undergoing a reorganization process.Last year there were mergers in the country, which is part of the evolution of the business, a business that continues to grow'.Rodríguez also said that 'the theme of our ABRINT 2022 National Meeting is 'Stimulating Innovations'.It is a force that causes movement, stimulus, and is also called a group of frequency oscillations.Furthermore, much of the technological development has only become accessible to Brazilians thanks to ISPs.Therefore, we can say that ABRINT drives innovation in Brazil'.During the first day, full house for the Panel."Streaming as a business engine for ISPs" which was attended by André Romanon, Country Manager of Roku; Mauricio Almeida, co-founder and CEO of Watch Brasil; Flávia Guerra, Executive Director of DirecTV GO; and María Cristina Mizumoto , CEO of TV AlphavilleFor Andre Romanon (Roku) in the future all videos will be streamed, because the market has grown rapidly.Romanon commented that 'Roku is already the number one streaming TV platform with 61.3 million active accounts and more than 20.9 billion streaming hours viewed by its users.'In terms of dedicated streaming platforms for ISPs, the offering is increasing every year.In a conversation with Mauricio Almeida, founder and CEO of Watch Brasil, he said that the market has grown and the company has done the same.'Today we are a content hub that brings together movies, series, linear channels, music and sports broadcasts with a movement of great expansion in recent times.We've already added more than 8,500 hours of content with titles from Paramount+, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Universal and Warner, among others.'Another of Almeida's highlights was that Watch now also functions as a market that offers packages such as HBO Max and UOL Leia + Banking, and that the offer from ISPs is increasingly important, because it brings content to places where it did not reach before. , that makes us important and relevant.Appear, Broadpeak and Beenius are presenting a joint solution for OTT at ABRINT 2022. The three companies have developed a complete video workflow for ISPs, from content acquisition to the final subscriber;going through the decoding, encoding, processing, delivery and monetization of video content for IPTV and OTT.The architecture can help small and medium-sized Internet providers to offer a personalized, agile, flexible and fully open and integrated video streaming solution, creating a differentiated platform, with an optimized time to market, in which the customer does not have to to worry about the development, only about its operation, explained Antonio Torres, Technical Director of Beenius Brazil.Bruno Targino, Regional Sales Director of Appear Brazil, said that the platform is divided into three parts.'Appear presents its video processing platform that allows the reception of terrestrial (ISDB-T/DVB-C), satellite (DVB-S/S2x) and internet (SRT/IP) signals, among others;does the decoding, encoding, and transcoding to prepare and deliver broadcast content (multi-bitrates) to the Broadpeak platform.These transcoded signals are received by the Broadpeak solution, which packages and transmits the content (video delivery).For this, Origin-Packager first packages the video "just in time" and applies the encryption "on the fly" to generate ABR (AdaptiveBitrate) formats such as HLS, DASH, HSS or CMAF compatible with the devices, Broadpeak Brasil Sales Director, Hubert Legrix.Another highlight of the fair is that Newton Suzuki left the Bandeirantes Group where he was Marketing Director and created his own company, So Play, a movie application that will be offered to ISPs as a differentiated cinema proposal.Suzuki explained to Prensario that the idea is to have niche audiences who like good movies.Multilaser PRO and ZTE presented three releases to complement solutions, with emphasis on the ZT866P 4K Set-top-box, which reaches providers as an SVA option.Among its main features are: AndroidTV 11, Bluetooth 5.0, USB 2.0 port, HDMI input, 8GB Flash Memory and 2GB RAM, Dual Band Wi-Fi, compatible with 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks and Quad Core ARM Cortex processor -A35.In addition, 'the product is approved by Google and has voice control and direct access buttons for various streams.The equipment also comes with native applications such as: Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Globoplay, among others”, Rafael Cortés, Product Director of Multilaser, told the report.Connectivity with its own submarine cable from Latin America to the United States was presented by Antel at ABRINT 2022. Ricardo Gonçalves (Antel Brazil) and Beatriz Rodrigues (Antel Uruguay) explained that the difference in Antel's service lies in the support and local language and knowledge of the region.At the end of the first day, OIW Telecom announced its new strategic partnership with Huawei for the provider optical network market that includes offering cloud infrastructure as an optional path for ISPs.Fabricio Ferreira, CEO of OIW Telecom, told Prensario that the cooperative operation will allow greater flexibility in OIW's delivery strategy.Instead of just selling and supporting equipment and supporting partner marketing, the company now offers providers the option of replacing their investments in physical networks with the acquisition of cloud infrastructure.In this "as a service" model, the functionality, connections and prototypes of applications, management and back-end support are guaranteed by Huawei.For Ferreira, 'the cloud alternative, in the ISP niche, is still little explored.But it is beginning to be seen as a further path for providers interested in containing asset expansion.Or for those looking to focus solely on selling broadband services and content to their customer base.'Another announcement was the association with AGORA, which, according to him, leads Brazilian suppliers (especially those at the center and base of the pyramid) to have a more agile and available offer of a series of Huawei brand products that were, Until then, the best seller for the operator (incumbent operators) and large data centers.The 13th edition of the National Providers Meeting, held by the Brazilian Association of Internet and Telecommunications Providers (ABRINT), runs until next Saturday, May 28, at São Paulo Expo, in São Paulo.By Fernando Moura, correspondent in BrazilThe Houses 3535 • C1238ACC |Buenos Aires, ArgentinaPhone: (54 11) 4924-7908 • 4924-2017 • 4922-8791 • 4926-2164 • 4926-2160 |Fax: (54 11) 4925-2507