E2Vision Announces Video-Centric Dragon Development Platform.Business Editors/Technology Writers SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2002 Powered by Equator's MAP-BSP(TM) Family of Chips, the Platform Enables More Cost-Effective and Rapid Application Development E2Vision, a leading video systems supplier in Asia, today announced its new Dragon Development Platform (DVP DVP See delivery versus payment (DVP). ), a powerful, cost-effective volume production development platform for video-centric broadband applications. The customizable video platform enables a faster time-to-market for 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 customers who can now more rapidly develop and deploy a broad range of broadband video applications that serve a variety of markets -- including digital video recorders for video surveillance and security, IP-based set-top boxes for Video-on-Demand (VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand ) applications, video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. applications and home entertainment. Additionally, the flexible nature of the board allows OEMs to select the components they require to meet unique application specifications. In order to support the bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements (communications) The channel bandwidths needed to transmit various types of signals, using various processing schemes. Every signal observed in practice can be expressed as a sum (discrete or over a frequency continuum) of sinusoidal of advanced video applications, the platform is designed to optimize available bandwidth by enabling high quality video streaming See streaming video and video stream. at low bit-rates. At the heart of the platform, the MAP-BSP Broadband Signal Processor(TM) (BSP BSP Bromsulphalein, a dye used in the study of liver function. See also sulfobromophthalein clearance test. (TM)) chip from Equator Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of video streaming engines and platforms, provides the DVP with superior video compression Encoding digital video to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. See video codec and data compression. video compression - Compression of sequences of images. capabilities. Capable of performing up to 33 GOPs (billion operations per second), Equator's software-programmable chip enables the DVP to support multiple, high quality streams for video-intense applications. "We are very pleased that E2Vision has selected our powerful, low bit-rate family of chips to serve as the engine of choice for its Dragon Development Platform," said Dr. Avi Dr. Avi is currently working on a few new musical projects which will hopefully be released in the coming months. The "Doctor Avi Show" has been long since taken off the air due to old radio politics. Katz, 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. , Equator Technologies. "The combination of our two technologies will change the face of video-centric applications for both the consumer and professional markets as we enable OEMs to more rapidly develop and deploy innovative new broadband video solutions." "The Dragon Development Platform will enable our OEM customers to have a jump-start on the competition. Valuable development time is saved as we are able to provide a ready-to-use platform that has already been tailored for our customers' specific broadband video applications," said Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. S.K. Low, Chairman and CEO, E2Vision. "With Equator's cost effective technology, we have been able to create a board that is less expensive than alternative solutions, while providing the superior processing power needed for high quality video streams that are essential for next-generation broadband video applications." About the Dragon Development Platform The Dragon Development Platform provides all the necessary hardware needed for the development of advanced broadband video applications. The state of the art development board has a number of advanced features, including: -- IDE interface for hard drive connection -- 128Mbytes SDRAM on board -- 4 Mbyte FLASH on board -- 2x Video capture S-video and composite -- Audio input/output stereo -- 10/100 BaseT Ethernet controller Pricing and Availability The Dragon Development Platform is immediately available in volume production from E2Vision with prices starting at $249 for 10K quantities. "Lite" versions of the platform will be made available in Q2 and Q4 2002. About the Companies Equator Technologies, Inc. Equator Technologies is the industry's choice for video streaming engines and platforms, targeting consumer, business and industrial applications. Equator's family of Broadband Signal Processor (BSP) chips, couple a unique, fully functional system-on-a-chip solution with software tools to permit the development of platforms for demanding video applications from "Pixels to Packets." Equator's unmatched compiler technology delivers 100% C programming -- enabling the rapid introduction and field upgradeability of high-performance, video-centric applications. With more than 120 customers, Equator offers rapid time-to-market and time-to-revenue solutions for digital media communication markets including, head-ends, set-top boxes, video conferencing, video security and imaging. Headquartered in Campbell, Calif., with additional offices worldwide, Equator is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. . For more information, visit www.equator.com. E2Vision Technology Pte Ltd PTE LTD Private Limited . E2Vision Technology is dedicated to providing the most powerful and cost effective video solutions to the fast growing Asian marketplace. The company, headquartered in Singapore, has significant video system design experience as well as high volume and cost effective manufacturing capabilities, utilized to rapidly commercialize and customize solutions. E2Vision Technology has wide exposure to video application OEM customers in the Asian region and supports them to rapidly commercialize products with local specification designs of hardware and software platforms. For more information, visit www.e2vision.com. |
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