Charter to Use C-COR's VOD Platform in St. Louis

C-COR, the company that recently acquired VOD and advertising-insertion technology provider, nCUBE, in a deal worth approximately $89.5 million (the deal saw nCUBE integrated into C-COR's software business unit, C-COR Solutions, and nCUBE co-founder, president and CEO, Mike Pohl, becoming president of that unit), says that Charter Communications will use its VOD servers and nABLE backoffice management software in the market where the MSO is headquartered, St. Louis, Missouri.

C-COR's equipment will replace the Concurrent VOD equipment which Charter's St. Louis system had previously used, and which the MSO says will now be used in another market (note: Charter reportedly decided to swap out the Concurrent equipment after Concurrent was unable to successfully integrate that equipment with the Digeo/Moxi-based Motorola Broadband Media Centers it is offering in St. Louis).

The new VOD deployment--C-COR's first since finalizing its acquisition of nCUBE last month--means that C-COR/nCUBE equipment is now supporting VOD in 17 of Charter's markets: other C-COR-powered VOD systems include Ft. Worth, Texas; Birmingham, Alabama; Alhambra/Pasadena, Glendale, Hesperia/Victorville, Riverside, and Long Beach, California; Newtown, Connecticut; Worcester, Massachusetts; Charleston, West Virginia; Jackson, Manchester, and the Tri Cities area (Kingsport, Bristol, Johnson City), Tennessee; and Kennewick/Yakima, Washington.