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Arroyo Announces Agreement
with Charter for VOD Services
Other Topics: IPTV for
Education, Where 2.0 Conference
Arroya Video Solutions, Inc.
January 9, 2006
Pleasanton, CA -- Arroyo Video Solutions, Inc. today announced
an agreement with Charter Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR) to
provide Arroyo OnDemand to support the rollout of video on demand (VOD)
technology in Alcoa, Tennessee.
"Arroyo's open standards approach to VOD allowed easy integration
with the C-COR nABLE platform in Alcoa for our business management
and session-resource management capabilities," said Pragash Pillai,
Charter Vice President Advanced Engineering, Digital Video. "Arroyo
OnDemand, together with C-COR's nABLE back-office system, provides
us with a flexible, end-to-end VOD solution and the ability to add
new features, functions, hardware and applications quickly and
effortlessly while taking full advantage of the advancements the
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"We're extremely enthusiastic to announce Charter as the third major
cable company to select Arroyo OnDemand," said Arroyo's President
and CEO Rick DeGabrielle. "The deployment in Alcoa is further proof
of Charter's pioneering adoption of open platform systems to support
its Charter OnDemand service nationwide, and we're pleased they see
the value that our software-based, network-centric approach to video
delivery will provide in the areas of scalability, future-proofing
and total cost of ownership."
Arroyo OnDemand is based on the company's sophisticated,
Internet-proven software networking technology, and enables the
creation of next generation personalized entertainment
infrastructures. Arroyo's networking architecture provides the
intelligence that allows multiple independent, open standards-based
hardware elements to operate as one, delivering critical benefits
over competing hardware-based video delivery solutions. These
benefits include unmatched flexibility; effortless scalability of
streams, content and ingest; and Arroyo's "Always ON" capability
that deliver 24x7 reliability and total system availability. Arroyo
OnDemand's breakthrough performance includes the industry's first 10
Gigabit Ethernet support, unparalleled streaming density of over
1,600 streams per rack unit, and the ability to simultaneously
ingest 160 channels per industry-standard server. Using Arroyo
OnDemand, operators can deliver more revenue-generating services
faster, enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve the lowest total
cost of ownership in the industry.
About Arroyo Video Solutions
Arroyo Video Solutions, Inc. is the creator of an innovative
software infrastructure that empowers operators to realize the
promise of personalized entertainment services. This software
enables a network of 100 percent industry-standard servers to work
together to deliver a multitude of revenue-generating personalized
applications, including video/music on demand, advertising, network
PVR, and games.
Truly the direction for the future, Arroyo's software infrastructure
shifts the focus from individual servers to the network. It delivers
the networking intelligence required to build large, scalable,
highly-reliable, open personalized entertainment networks and
removes the limitations inherent in proprietary hardware in the
areas of flexibility, future-proofing, and total ownership cost.
Arroyo's customers consist of operators and service providers around
the world, including leading U.S. cable operators Comcast, Time
Warner Cable and Charter. For more information, please visit
www.arroyo.tv. |
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