Artel Partners With VideoTele.com to Bring Enhanced Digital Television Services to the Broadband Market.Business/Technology Editors MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001 Artel's partnership with VideoTele.com sets the stage for enhanced digital television service projects to be rolled out worldwide Today Artel Artel (Russian: арте́ль) is a general term for various cooperative associations in Russia, historical and modern. Video Systems and VideoTele.com, Inc. (VT.c), a Tektronix company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TEK See TeX. ) announced that the two companies have entered into a partnership to bring advanced 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). switching technology to the broadband video services market. With a clear focus on enhancing the digital television experience, the combination of the two companies' solutions will give cable TV and telecommunications video service providers an advantage in the transport and delivery of digital entertainment services. This solution enables legacy video distribution networks to incorporate the latest in digital video multiplexing technology. The pairing of Artel's VideoStorm(TM) MPEG switching technology with VideoTele.com's digital head-end suite will enable video service providers to transport digital television over standardized packet-based networks. This breakthrough in digital television transport technology is made possible through Artel's VideoStorm(TM) advanced MPEG switching technology. The partnership will ultimately benefit video service subscribers with enhanced television Enhanced Television (ETV) is a collection of specifications developed under the OpenCable project of CableLabs (Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.) that define an ETV Application consisting of resources (files) adhering to the Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) content services such as video-on-demand and interactive TV. "This relationship marks another milestone re-enforcing Artel's position in the enhanced television services market," commented Artel President and 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. Hal Charnley, "We are very pleased to be working with VideoTele.com as they share our strategic vision of building next generation television infrastructures." Douglas Shafer, VideoTele.com President and CEO stated, "We are delighted to be partnered with Artel. The combination of the two companies' technologies is ideally suited to meet the needs of the fast growing digital entertainment services market." About VideoTele.com VideoTele.com is the single source supplier of digital head-end solutions enabling home entertainment delivery via the broadband Internet See broadband. . Building on 20 years of experience in video over telecommunications networks, VideoTele.com assists service providers with innovative products, strategic consulting and premier performance in system design, deployment and support. VideoTele.com's digital content processing solutions are used today at RBOCs, ILECs and CLECs, and VideoTele.com is the number one provider of these products to Independent Operating Companies. Headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon Lake Oswego (IPA: ɔs wiː ɡo) is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. (Small parts of the city extend into Multnomah County to the north and Washington County to the west. , VideoTele.com is a subsidiary of Tektronix, Inc. Additional information on the company can be found by accessing the VideoTele.com Corporate website at: http://www.videotele.com. About Artel Video Systems Artel provides video networking systems to cable TV and telecommunications service providers who need to satisfy the consumer's ever growing appetite for broadband digital entertainment. Artel's products are transforming the world's networking infrastructures by enabling the transmission of broadcast and interactive TV over standards based multi-service networks. Artel is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 36,255 at the 2000 census. The name of this town is sometimes spelled as Marlboro, rather than Marlborough, which is the official spelling. , USA, with sales and service centers worldwide. Further information about the company is available on the World Wide Web at www.artel.tv |
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