4HomeMedia and Ximeta Partner to Provide Turnkey, OEM Solutions for the Connected Home.Combined Solution Wins CES 2008 Innovations Award SUNNYVALE, Calif. & FREMONT, Calif. -- 4HomeMedia, Inc., the leading provider of home control services for the connected home, and Ximeta, Inc., an innovative developer and manufacturer of networked equipment, such as Network Direct Access Storage (NDAS NDAS Network Direct Attached Storage (Ximeta Drives) NDAS National Data Analysis System (Child Welfare League of America) NDAS National Democratic Action Society (Bahrain) ), formally announced a product integration partnership enabling a turnkey See turnkey system. solution for both superior media management and immersive home monitoring & automation for OEMs worldwide. The solution available from the two companies has won a CES 2008 Innovations award in the Integrated Home Systems product category. The two companies have been working together since the beginning of the year to combine their respective technologies. The combined solution provides a comprehensive system for media management, home control, and home video monitoring for deployment inside apartments, condos, and single family homes, globally. The solution is targeted for a broadband service See broadband and broadband service provider. provider's rollout of new "home control services," enabling a service provider to rollout new for-fee services without the reliance on a home computer for media management, home monitoring, home health, or energy management services. The OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and solution will also feature Intuidex(TM) technology, enabling a new way to search for media content, locally or remotely, while also enabling intriguing in·trigue n. 1. a. A secret or underhand scheme; a plot. b. The practice of or involvement in such schemes. 2. A clandestine love affair. v. interactive advertising functionality and business models. "Ximeta's NDAS technology takes network attached storage to the next level, providing two-way direct access between networked IP devices, such as IP cameras, and the storage device, enabling better performance, less home network traffic, and higher security than regular network attached storage," said Alex Fedosseev, VP of Product Management at 4HomeMedia. "We also are excited to integrate our media management software into Ximeta's NDAS product line, providing consumers, through our joint OEM partners, a truly best-of-breed, whole-home digital media access and control system." "We evaluated all the major vendors on the market and concluded that 4HomeMedia has the most compelling connected home software system in the world," said Dr. Bill Pottenger, Chief Scientist of Ximeta. "4HomeMedia got everything right ... from the simplicity of the graphical user-interface, to the ability to customize the user-experience for OEMs and during run-time for the individual consumers in the home, to the distributed architecture and small 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. footprint The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite's footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. See form factor. 1. . We are very pleased with the 4HomeMedia technology and our partnership." The combined solution set is available for evaluation from OEM customers at the end of Q1 2008, and will be shipping in the second half of 2008. Pricing will vary depending on configuration and volume commitment from the OEM customer, but in all cases is targeted for end-user affordability, a mass market rollout, and manageability man·age·a·ble adj. That can be managed or controlled: manageable problems. man for the service provider. About 4HomeMedia 4HomeMedia is the leading provider of "home control services" which include home monitoring, media and entertainment management, home health, and energy management. With the sudden commoditization Commoditization 1. A situation when illiquid financial contracts are changed or modified in a way that promotes trading and results in a more liquid market. 2. Making a product into a commodity. Notes: 1. of the "triple play," 4HomeMedia's solution is in high-demand. 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint[TM] and Portal Server (1) A network server that deploys portal services to a public Web site or internal intranet. See portal. (2) An application that is used to develop, deliver and maintain a Web portal. software products allow hardware vendors and service providers to create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use, and profitable new applications and services for the connected home. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed anywhere on the home network provides whole home coverage -- from anywhere and at anytime. Portal Server is a robust broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). application server for the NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, providing scalable and manageable home control services for a broad, mass-market rollout. 4HomeMedia, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information on 4HomeMedia and its award-winning solutions, please visit http://www.4HomeMedia.com About Ximeta Ximeta is based in Fremont, Calif. and was founded in 2003. Ximeta is the pioneer of Network Direct Attached Storage (NDAS) technology. Ximeta is dedicated to providing high performance shared storage products that are affordable and easy to use in business and in the home. Ximeta focuses on R&D and the development of robust products based on its market-leading NDAS technology. Ximeta also believes in providing an enhanced customer experience and has built its business around superior service and support. http://www.ximeta.com |
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