Amino Announces Interoperability with Industry's Leading H.264 Encoder Vendors; AmiNET124 Sets the Standard for H.264 Video Rendering.CAMBRIDGE, England -- Amino, leading IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. software and consumer premises equipment provider, has taken another step towards making IPTV deployments easier and more efficient for Telcos. The company today confirmed that the award-winning H.264 AmiNET124 IP set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. is fully compatible with the industry's leading H.264 (otherwise known as MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 4-AVC) encoders. By ensuring full interoperability and high quality video rendering via the AmiNET124, IPTV service providers can deploy advanced H.264 services using any of the major encoding technologies within a much shorter time-frame. The AmiNET124 was launched in June 2005, and in September won the Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit Award at IBC IBC International Building Code IBC Iraq Body Count IBC Institutional Biosafety Committee IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer IBC International Business Company IBC Independence Blue Cross IBC Insurance Bureau of Canada IBC International Broadcasting Convention for its innovative, single-chip design and advanced performance, which lowers the cost of IPTV deployments. Prior to, and in the months following its launch, Amino has worked closely with both the leading middleware and encoder providers to ensure that the AmiNET124 is fully compatible with all elements of the IPTV system. Amino is pleased to announce that the set-top box has been certified to interoperate with H.264 encoded video from Harmonic, SkyStream, TANDBERG Television  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . and Tut Systems. "The AmiNET124's optimised software stack (1) A stack that is implemented in memory rather than in hardware registers. See stack. (2) A generic reference to a set of system programs or a set of application programs that form a complete system. See stack. helps ensure that the picture quality of highly compressed digital video, such as that produced by Harmonic's DiviCom MV 100, is preserved across the IPTV delivery chain," said Thierry Fautier, Director of Telco Solutions Marketing at Harmonic Inc. "Validating and optimizing interoperability between our DiviCom MV 100 MPEG-4 AVC-enabled video encoder and the AmiNET124 expands the range of top quality, ready-to-deploy solutions available to IPTV service operators." "Advanced compression technology is crucial in enabling operators to launch new IPTV services over bandwidth constrained networks. To truly deliver with high quality, advanced compression solutions need to be optimized from the video head end all the way into the home and we are delighted to support Amino as it brings MPEG-4 AVC innovation to the set-top-box sector," noted Tim Sheppard, IPTV Business Development Director, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. and APAC APAC Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing APAC Agricultural Policy Analysis Center APAC Asia and Pacific APAC Asian Pacific American Coalition APAC Adapted Physical Activity Council (American Alliance for Health) for TANDBERG Television. The AmiNET124 is the company's first H.264 compatible set-top box available for Telco IPTV deployments. Cavalier Telephone, a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) ) in the USA and one of the industry's first commercially deployed MPEG-4 AVC IPTV solutions, has already selected the AmiNET124 for its IPTV service roll-out. "Amino has achieved a rapid time to market along with high quality with their AmiNET124 product," explained Mark Tiedeman, Vice President of Marketing for Tut Systems. "The market for MPEG4-AVC IPTV is growing very rapidly and by closely partnering with Amino, we can provide the most advanced services to our customers." - ends - About Amino Amino Communications (www.aminocom.com) develops core software technologies and customer-premises products for the IPTV market, 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. Amino is the global leader for making the smallest, most attractive, high-performance IP set-top boxes on the market, based on our software technology, which has been adopted by telecom service providers for broadband TV deployments worldwide. Fundamental to this success has been Amino's ability to develop a highly stable, industry proven, versatile software stack, portable across a variety of silicon platforms. Building further on our core software, we also provide bespoke be·spoke v. Past tense and a past participle of bespeak. adj. 1. Custom-made. Said especially of clothes. 2. Making or selling custom-made clothes: a bespoke tailor. development services to create digital, on-demand TV systems, to order, specifically for the hotel and leisure industry. Amino Communications is part of Amino Technologies plc. listed on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. AIM, symbol AMO AMO - America's Multimedia Online . Amino is based near Cambridge, UK, and has offices in Atlanta Georgia and Hong Kong. About Harmonic Inc. Harmonic Inc. is a leading provider of digital video, broadband optical networking and IP delivery systems to cable, satellite, telecom and broadcast network operators. Harmonic's open standards-based solutions for the headend through the last mile enable customers to develop new revenue sources and a competitive advantage by offering powerful interactive video, voice and data services such as video-on-demand, high definition digital television, telephony and Internet access. Harmonic (Nasdaq:HLIT) is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with R&D, sales and system integration centres worldwide. The Company's customers, including many of the world's largest communications providers, deliver services in virtually every country. Visit www.harmonicinc.com for more information. About SkyStream SkyStream provides IP video delivery platforms that enable service providers to transform their business by offering IPTV and MPEG-4 video services. SkyStream's products--which include zBand(TM) content delivery software, Mediaplex-20(TM) and iPlex(TM) switched digital video See switched video. headends and the Source Media Router series of IP encapsulation (1) In object technology, the creation of self-contained modules that contain both the data and the processing. See object-oriented programming. (2) The transmission of one network protocol within another. solutions--lower OPEX See CAPEX. and CAPEX costs by 40 percent to 50 percent and optimise video delivery over any last mile network. SkyStream is the fastest-growing provider of IP video solutions with more than 300 customers. SkyStream's Web site can be found on the Internet at www.skystream.com. About TANDBERG Television TANDBERG Television's (Oslo:TAT.OL) open standards-based technology solutions enable new business models in the digital media market through the provision of high quality live, on-demand and interactive content. The company's customers include many of the major content owners, distributors and network operators around the world. For more information visit: http://www.tandbergtv.com On November 15th 2005 TANDBERG Television completed its acquisition of GoldPocket Interactive, a leading provider of interactive television solutions based in Los Angeles, California. For more information visit: http://www.goldpocket.com About Tut Systems, Inc. Tut Systems is an industry leader enabling delivery of next-generation data and video services over broadband networks. More than 150 service providers worldwide use Tut's IPTV solutions to deliver video over xDSL, FTTH (Fiber To The Home) See FTTP. and HFC networks. Tut provides carrier-class content processing platforms and end-to-end IPTV solutions through its comprehensive integration services. Tut Systems is headquartered in Lake Oswego, and has regional offices across North America, Europe and Asia. For more information visit www.tutsys.com |
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