4HomeMedia Announces First Set of Customers.New "CES Best of Innovations" ControlPoint[TM] Software Platform for Next-generation Broadband Services Adopted by Firms in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint[TM] solution, a broadband services and software platform designed to enable consumer electronic equipment manufacturers and service providers to rapidly develop and deploy embedded entertainment, control, and monitoring applications for the digital home network, has been licensed by three hardware equipment customers -- Alpha Telecom, InAccess Networks, and Nico Technology -- for 2007 service provider trials and rollouts spanning the globe. ControlPoint consists of a very compact and resource efficient embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. platform which incorporates a set of innovative user-interface engines that enables partners to develop new sources of recurring revenue and to rapidly develop and bring to market a new generation of services-based offering via the consumer's broadband network. All licensed copies of ControlPoint connect to 4HomeMedia.Net services portal as part of an end-to-end system. The 4HomeMedia's solution incorporates standards and protocols used throughout the world and the customizable user-interface supports all major world languages. A new 4HomeMedia customer targeting the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. service provider market with ControlPoint software is Alpha Telecom. Alpha Telecom is a Next Generation Networks (NGN (Next Generation Networks) An umbrella term for mixed voice and data networks running over the IP protocol. See IP Multimedia Subsystem. ) Customer Premises Equipment See CPE. (CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment ) solutions provider to carriers interested in building out NGN incorporating voice, video, data, and integrated services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. . Alpha Telecom has a long track record in telecommunication products and services having been in operation for over ten years. "We are moving from simply being an equipment supplier to telcos to becoming a solutions integrator for the broadband home market," said Sid Sung, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Alpha Telecom. "We are relying on 4HomeMedia's software and services solutions to enable broadband services to our customers, including integrating the 4HomeMedia.Net backend services portal with our TR-069 Auto Configuration Services management server." Alpha Telecom, in addition to being a licensee of 4HomeMedia's technology for telco service providers in North America, is also acting as manufacturing liaison and ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) A contract manufacturer that uses its own designs and intellectual property (IP). See contract manufacturer. partner for third-party companies interested in going to market with the award-winning ControlPoint 1000 hardware product, a whole-home control product featuring ControlPoint software. Alpha Telecom will mass produce ControlPoint 1000 units under private label arrangements, as well as perform hardware customizations and other hardware-related services for interested parties. In Europe, another new 4HomeMedia customer is inAccess Networks, a home gateway specialist and integrator of end-to-end multi-play platforms for European service providers and operators. InAccess builds its own MRG MRG Merge MRG Minority Rights Group International MRG Mad River Glen (Vermont) MRG Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche (French: Left Radical Movement) MRG Manyetik Rezonans Görüntüleme series of telco-oriented home gateways based on in-house system design, embedded protocol software stacks, DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive blocks and IP Cores. The company extends the well-known, standards-based home gateway concept with a strong blend of home control functionality. "We are using the 4HomeMedia software and services platform on our MRG home gateway series for packaged service provider offerings that extend triple-play service bundles with home automation, energy measurement, comfort and safety scenarios," said Christos Georgopoulos, Managing Director of inAccess Networks. The MRG home gateway series uniquely integrate data, voice and video services with an extended variety of automation and control features, in addition to the typical device and service management frameworks supported for Service Providers' use. "4HomeMedia's dynamic rendering ability and powerful use of 'context' were major factors in choosing ControlPoint as a key element in our machine-to-human interface." In Asia, Nico Technology is a leader in industrial and consumer automation and control solutions for service providers and other channels and sells into Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , China, Thailand, and Taiwan. Nico Technology is using ControlPoint software in their consumer rollouts beginning as early as Q2 2007. "We value the flexibility and scalability of the 4HomeMedia software and services technology," said Thomas Choo, CEO of Nico Technology. "We provide solutions through a variety of channels but especially large service providers and in numerous countries, and 4HomeMedia has created a dynamic, context sensitive, user-interface and software-services infrastructure that allows us to attack all the markets we serve simultaneously with the same underlying technology. This is a very exciting and powerful proposition for us." In addition to enabling new revenue sources, the 4HomeMedia end-to-end platform also enables service providers to reduce expenses, increase customer loyalty, and reduce churn via the 4HomeMedia.Net backend management system. 4HomeMedia.Net offers best-in-class remote management and diagnostics features for service provider customer care organizations that are tasked with supporting new home networked-based services for their subscribers. Feature highlights include activation, remote system configuration management, home network error logging, remote technician login Signing in and gaining access to a network server, Web server or other computer system. The process (the noun) is a "login" or "logon," while the act of doing it (the verb) is to "log in" or to "log on. and diagnostic facilities, firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. image management, and carrier management system integration capabilities. "The 4HomeMedia software-services platform is poised to become a significant presence in the digital home market for service providers, and we are thrilled to be working in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem with our first set of hardware partner licensees for market rollouts beginning this year," concluded Jon Rappaport, 4HomeMedia's vice president of sales. About 4HomeMedia, Inc. With one of the most experienced teams in the industry and years of R&D behind its award-winning technology, 4HomeMedia provides the digital home solution that is changing the equation for deploying a new generation of broadband services throughout the world. 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint[TM] is an embedded platform that allows consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers, home automation integrators, and retailers to rapidly create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use applications and services for the digital home. At the heart of this patent-pending solution is a set of easy-to-use, familiar, network-level user-interface engines that transcend individual devices and provide a comprehensive means of controlling all networked devices and systems within the home. The ControlPoint embedded software, when used in combination with the 4HomeMedia.Net services portal, provides a cross-platform user-interface and broadband services system designed for easy portability to a range of consumer devices. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed anywhere on the home network provides whole home coverage -- from anywhere and at anytime. 4HomeMedia, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, CA, with sales offices in Charlotte, NC and Knoxville, TN. For more information on 4HomeMedia and its award-winning ControlPoint solution, please visit http://www.4HomeMedia.com. About Alpha Telecom Founded in 1994, Alpha Telecom, Inc. USA (Alpha Telecom), headquartered in Sunnyvale California, develops and markets NGN CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) and Network Element Management System (EMS) Solutions. Alpha Telecom comprehensive NGN CPE solutions include VoIP Gateways/ Telephones/IAD, Broadband Access See broadband and wireless broadband. CPE, Wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area equipment, PoE LAN switch A network device that cross-connects clients, servers and network devices. Also known as a "frame switch," stand-alone LAN switches are common in all Ethernet networks. A four-port switch is also typically built into a wired or wireless router for homes and small business (see wireless , mid span power supply devices and ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. CPEs for residential, SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. , mid-sized business, enterprise and services providers. Alpha Telecom and partners work closely with the worldwide telecommunications carriers, ISPs and major telecommunications distributors. Alpha Telecom business strategy is focusing on Broadband (BB) CPE solutions from BB Access (BBA BBA abbr. Bachelor of Business Administration ), BB Enable Functions (BBEF), BB Home Networking (BBHN) and BB Enable Applications (BBEA). For more information, visit the company's Website at http://www.alpha-tele.com. Alpha Telecom is in the Accton family of companies. Accton Technology Corporation (TAIEX TAIEX Technical Assistance Information Exchange Office (EU) TAIEX Technical Assistance Information Service : 2345) is a global premier provider of networking and communications solutions for top tier networking, computer, and telecommunications vendors. Leveraging its advanced software applications and state-of-the-art ASICs, Accton collaborates with its strategic partners to design, develop and manufacture innovative, leading-edge technologies. The company's constantly-evolving core technology, highly-qualified employees and aggressive cost engineering make it possible for Accton to deliver superior products that are as affordable as they are robust. For more information about Accton and its subsidiaries, visit www.accton.com. About inAccess Networks InAccess Networks is headquartered in Athens, Greece. It designs and develops integrated telecom and network systems and applications with a specialization in home gateways for broadband multi-play networks and electromechanical The use of electricity to run moving parts. Disk drives, printers and motors are examples. Electromechanical systems must be designed for the eventual deterioration of moving components that wear over time. The first TVs were electromechanical systems (see video/TV history). control systems and applications for remote management of equipment of telecom operators. It also provides telecom carrier systems and services for Packet Telephony Synonymous with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), in which a digital voice stream is broken up into small chunks (packets) and transmitted over a packet-switched network. See IP telephony and packet switching. ; platforms for content delivery in IP and mobile networks; turn key IT solutions for telecom operators and enterprise networks, as well as consulting services related to network design, performance and security of telecom IT systems and services. Clients include main telecom companies of Greece and Europe; the company has active involvement in the EU R&D framework and is an active member of several international standardization bodies. http://www.inaccessnetworks.com About Nico Technology Nico Technology Inc., founded in Singapore in 1985, has a proud history of delivering scalable, standards-based, integrated automation and control solutions for service providers and other commercial channel partners throughout Asia. In 1999, Nico (stands for Network Integration Control Organization) relocated to its current offices in Taipei and acquired a manufacturing plant in Taiwan to facilitate quality in-house product assembly. Following many years of successful testing, Nico adopted Echelon's LonWorks as its standard device communication protocol in 1995 and today continues to trust LonWorks as the foundation of its varied commercial and consumer product lines. Nico is devoted to the creation and delivery of cost-effective, user-friendly, and high-quality intelligent control systems and devices, designed for simple deployments in homes and buildings. Years of proven experience has provided Nico with the confidence and vision to develop smarter, more reliable and more efficient solutions for improving the overall comfort and convenience within the environments where people live, work, and play. http://www.nico-tech.com All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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