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Leading Research Report Rates
Amino as Top IPTV Set-Top Box Vendor
Other Topics: IPTV Performance
Testing, IPTV Digital Home
Business Wire
September 13, 2005
Cambridge, UK -- Amino
Communications, the Cambridge-based IPTV (IP television) systems and
software vendor, has been named top worldwide supplier of IP set-top
boxes by US technology analyst organization, ABI Research.
The report also confirms Amino's position as the second largest volume
supplier - a position achieved after only two years in the IPTV
set-top box market.
In its recently-released 138-page report, "Set Top-Box Market
Development for CATV, DBS, DTT and IP", ABI Research assessed the top
ten IP set-top box vendors which had solutions in place during 2004.
Each was analyzed in accordance with 12 criteria including: number of
successful deployments and trials, support of open standards,
financial soundness, length of time in IPTV industry, regional focus
and product features. Overall, Amino achieved the highest score in the
survey. |
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In particular the report highlighted the breadth of the company's
customer base which covers North America, Asia and Europe, as well as
its partnerships with major system integrators, Telcos and
infrastructure vendors.
Bob Giddy, Amino's CEO, commented, "We were one of the very first
set-top box vendors in this business and in many respects were a major
pioneer of the IPTV industry which is now growing very rapidly. We are
very proud that one of the industry's leading research organizations
has recognized our achievements."
About Amino
Amino Communications (www.aminocom.com) develops core software
technologies and customer-premises products for the convergence
between television, broadband, voice and the Internet, and partners
with world-leading companies in content aggregation, middleware,
conditional access, and head-end systems.
Amino software is designed to manage all types of digital content,
enabling the provision of multiple services such as voice, data,
broadcast TV, and on-demand services in a single consumer device. We
also develop and supply the AmiNET family of digital set-top boxes,
based on our software technology, which have been adopted by telecom
service providers for broadband TV deployments worldwide. Building
further on our core software, we also develop digital, on-demand TV
systems specifically for the hotel and leisure industry.
Amino Communications is part of Amino Technologies plc. listed on the
London Stock Exchange AIM, symbol AMO. Amino is based near Cambridge,
UK, and has offices in Atlanta Georgia and Hong Kong.
About ABI Research
Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York, ABI Research maintains
global operations supporting annual research programs, intelligence
services and market reports in automotive, wireless, semiconductors,
broadband, and energy. For information visit www.abiresearch.com. |
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