IntAct Licenses IPTV
Solution to WNC
Other Topics: IPTV Belgium,
IPTV Broadcasting Event,
IPTV Encoding,
Web TV Channel,
Digital Interactive Television System
IntAct Software Ltd
December 1, 2006
WNC to bundle IntAct Software stack with a range of IPTV STBs as
part of an offering to IPTV operators
Cambridge, UK & Hsinchu, Taiwan -- IntAct Software Ltd ("IntAct"),
an Amino Technologies plc company ("Amino"; stock code: AMO),
announces today that it has signed a licensing agreement with
Wistron NeWeb Corp. ("WNC"), the subsidiary of Wistron group, which
will allow WNC to bundle the IntAct IPTV solution across a range of
Set-Top Boxes (STBs) from the mentioned company. These STB products
will range from standard definition MPEG-2/4/H.264 to high
definition DVB Hybrid and PVRs.
For an undisclosed sum, WNC has the right to supply the latest
advanced IPTV software technology to customers across the
Asia-Pacific region and tier-1 telcos in European Union and North
America markets. According to Mike Arden, Principal Analyst at ABI
Research, Asia Pacific alone is poised to be the biggest market with
an explosion of IPTV services over the next few years and he also
foresees that subscribers will rise from 2 million in 2005 to over
22 million by 2011.
Haydn Hsieh, CEO & President of WNC, commented, "Given the market
forecasts and potential for IPTV, we want to enter the IPTV market
quickly and in a big way. We need to find a software partner to give
us the time-to-market advantage we need and IntAct is our best
option" He continued, "By licensing the IntAct IPTV solution, we can
provide our customers with a proven solution that is already
pre-integrated with most of the popular Middleware, Conditional
Access and VOD servers on the market, reducing vastly the production
time to revenues - a critical consideration in a highly competitive
market".
"The significance of this relationship is that operators can now buy
STBs, fully integrated with software, directly from the factory",
explained Bob Giddy, Amino's CEO. "In the past OEMs bought 'naked
STB hardware' from the factory, added their software onto it, then
sold it to the operator, which added time as well as middlemen and
extra cost. The key difference is that WNC can now ship STBs loaded
with fully pre-integrated IntAct solution directly from the end of
the assembly line to the operator".
About IntAct Software Limited
IntAct Software Limited develops and licenses software and hardware
technology for broadband connected devices and is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Amino Technologies plc group of companies.
Products include the IntAct(TM) IPTV software stack, and advanced
multi-standard video and audio decoder software.
Use of the IntAct IPTV software stack provides IPTV service
operators with a standard unified platform for IPTV applications and
middleware enabling operators to reduce capex costs by sourcing
hardware from multiple IntAct compliant set-top box vendors, and
reducing opex costs by relying on one company for the software stack
to run on multiple hardware platforms.
IntAct software products are licensed to IPTV service providers and
manufacturers of IPTV set top boxes, and power the AmiNET range of
set-top box products from Amino Communications Limited.
The IntAct IPTV software stack supports the widest range of IPTV
industry middleware and CA systems and has been ported to leading
set-top box architectures. It is used in over 50 countries worldwide
by more than 600 companies in commercial deployments and trials.
IntAct technology has also been sampled by another additional 800
customers.
To learn more about IntAct Software, visit: www.intactos.com |
