Concurrent Joins ANYTIME Technology Partner Program.Worldwide Leader in Digital On-Demand Systems for Broadband Becomes Latest Member of Asia Pacific VoD Technology Alliance SINGAPORE -- ANYTIME, Asia Pacific's leading Video-on-Demand channel, today announced that Concurrent (Nasdaq: CCUR CCUR Center for Crops Utilization Research ), a worldwide leader of on-demand technology that is shaping the future of television, has joined the ANYTIME Technology Partner Program. The ANYTIME Technology Partner Program is a collaboration between ANYTIME and the world's leading Video-on-Demand (VoD) technology vendors, and aims to reduce the time to deploy secure, quality, Video-on-Demand (VoD) services in Asia Pacific. Within this alliance, technology vendors can join together to develop best practices in delivering and marketing VoD services, while ensuring process compliance and data flow compatibility from publishing, to billing API's and royalty reporting. Founded in 1966, Concurrent delivers a range of on-demand and real-time solutions to a diverse global customer base spanning 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, Asia and Australia. It joins Verimatrix as a member of the program. ANYTIME chief technology officer Craig Ginsberg believes Concurrent's long history of innovation and expertise in on-demand and real-time technologies will be an asset to all members of the ANYTIME Technology Partner Program. "Over the years, Concurrent's hardware and software solutions have been associated with all leading edge VoD deployments around the world," he said. "Their history of providing compelling VoD platforms is unmatched. This experience and expertise will immediately extend the value that the ANYTIME Technology Partner Program brings to technology vendors and existing or potential VoD carriers in Asia Pacific. " "We are eager to make a major contribution to developing VoD deployments across Asia Pacific, and proud to be selected by ANYTIME to join their Technology Partner Program," Concurrent chief executive officer Gary Trimm offered. "Demand for VoD services grows greater everyday. For the average telco, ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. or digital cable operator, it can be a difficult and complex process. It's important that leading vendors in this space work together to make VoD deployments as painless and efficient as possible." The ANYTIME Technology Partner Program has two levels of agreement - technology compliance, and cooperation and co-marketing. If accepted into the program, vendors can work with ANYTIME to ensure their products, services or solutions comply with the highest industry standards for VoD content delivery. The Partner Program is open to 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. (STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box ) manufacturers, middleware vendors, conditional access Conditional Access (acronymized CA) is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to this content. The term is commonly used in relation to digital television systems, most notably satellite television. and DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M hardware and software makers, VoD server manufacturers, and systems integrators. Vendor agnostic, the program ensures that telcos, ISPs and digital cable providers receive impartial advice and information on VoD delivery technology. For more information about the ANYTIME Technology Partner Program visit: http://www.anytimeondemand.com/anytime_chlicensing_techpartners.html or to apply, email: techpartners@anytimeondemand.com About ANYTIME Headquartered in Singapore, ANYTIME is the leading global video on-demand channel delivered to consumers over 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. , broadband and digital cable networks. With output deals and access to the libraries of four of Hollywood's leading studiosCoFox, Sony, Warner and UniversalCoand licenses with regional content providers like Celestial Pictures, ICON Film Distribution and Becker Entertainment Becker Entertainment is one of Australia's best-known, publicly listed entertainment companies, owned by Prime Television Limited. Founded in 1965 by Russell Becker, one of the pioneers of commercial television in Australia, Becker was Australia's first independent distributor of , ANYTIME has an unsurpassed programming line-up. When added to proven technology, ANYTIME delivers compelling content with the control and convenience that consumers demand. ANYTIME has existing carriage deals in Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand, and the rights to license into 14 territories in Asia Pacific. ANYTIME's shareholders include CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment Holdings Inc. (Sony), Fox Media Services Inc., Intel Capital, Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Entertainment Inc., YTC YTC Yield to Call (securities-bonds) YTC Yakima Training Center (US Army; Yakima, Washington state) YTC Yearly Training Calendar YTC Yuma Test Center (US Army) Group (a Singapore based multinational conglomerate), the Macquarie Bank Group and Coote/Hayes Productions LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (a U.S.-based TV and film production company). About Concurrent Concurrent (NASDAQ: CCUR) is a leading provider of high-performance, real-time Linux software and solutions for commercial and government markets. For over 40 years Concurrent's best-of-breed products have enabled a range of time-critical solutions including: modeling and simulation, high speed data acquisition, visual imaging, low latency transaction processing and on-demand television. Concurrent's on-demand television applications are utilized by major service providers in the cable and IPTV industries to deliver video-on-demand (VOD) and, through subsidiary company Everstream, measure the effectiveness of interactive television. Concurrent is a global company with regional offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and has products actively deployed in more than 24 countries. Concurrent's products and services are recognized for being uniquely flexible, comprehensive, robust and reliable. For more information, please visit www.ccur.com |
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