Amino selects ANT Galio Platform for next-generation
Set-Top Box
13 March 2008
ANT (www.antplc.com), the provider of software and services for the delivery of digital TV, today announced that Amino, the world leading IPTV Set-Top Box (STB) supplier, has selected ANT Galio Platform for its HD H.264 Personal Video Recorder (PVR) AmiNET530 STB.
The AmiNET530 is a market leading IPTV PVR STB offering a high quality television experience, enabling the consumer to record multiple TV streams simultaneously and allowing time shifting, pause and play of live channels. Innovation can be appreciated in not only its compact and elegant elliptical design, but also its advanced technology supporting highly desirable applications such as HDTV, PVR, Video on Demand (VoD) and push VoD content.
The ANT Galio Platform will extend the capabilities of the AmiNET530, allowing it to support of a wider range of IPTV middlewares.
ANT and Amino have a long history of co-operation, having partnered together since 2003 to deliver ANT’s first generation IPTV platform, Fresco, on Amino STBs. ANT and Amino also both recently joined the Open IPTV Forum and are staunch supporters of open standards to enable content developers to create applications for IPTV quickly and easily. This partnership demonstrates their shared vision and also demonstrates Amino’s support of ANT’s Rich Media Access Interface (RMAI) standard which was launched in September 2007.
Richard Baker, Executive VP Sales and Marketing, said: “This agreement builds upon a strong existing relationship and a heritage of successful deployments across the world. Amino is the world leader in the IP STB market based on number of deployments and is well placed to take advantage of the growth in demand we’re both experiencing in IPTV.”
Roy Kirsopp VP & General Manager, Amino, adds: “It was important for us to work with a partner who could provide a robust and scalable platform for our AmiNET530 STB. PVR is an increasingly important feature for IPTV service providers and together ANT and Amino have the technology and the know-how to effectively support this requirement.”
Visitors to IPTV World Forum can visit ANT on stand 163 and Amino on stand 106.
About ANT Software Limited
ANT plc (www.antplc.com) is the leading provider of client software solutions and services to the digital media industry. It develops open-standards-based client software and applications to enable operators to exploit digital media across a broad range of consumer devices from TV’s set-top boxes and DVD players, to portable media devices such as mobile phones and personal media players, regardless of content delivery platform.
ANT enables media driven organisations to quickly create and roll-out innovative and successful applications and TV services on any consumer device, enabling operators to attract new subscribers, reduce churn and increase average revenue per user.
ANT’s software has been extensively deployed by customers throughout the world including Scientific Atlanta a Cisco Company, Chunghwa Telecom, Foxconn, France Telecom, Humax, LG/Nortel, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, SaskTel, Telecom Italia and Thomson.
ANT plc's shares are listed on AIM, a London Stock Exchange regulated market, under the ticker ANTP (Reuters: ANTP.L, Bloomberg: ANTP.LN).
Press Contacts
Gerry Grewal
Rainier PR
Tel: 0207 494 6589
Email: ggrewal@rainierpr.co.uk
About Amino Communications
Amino Communications (www.aminocom.com) supplies the AmiNET™ series of set-top boxes (STBs), renowned for their low-cost and reliability. The AmiNET range materially reduces service operators’ capital expenditure, whilst offering the full range of specification required; MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding standards, standard and high definition TV, personal video recording and home networking. The high performance coupled with the innovative design of Amino’s set-top boxes, has brought the series industry accolades and the company a leading position within the IPTV market.
The AmiNET series of IPTV STBs has been used in commercial deployments and trials in over 80 countries worldwide. Amino’s principal customers are telecommunications, broadcast and hospitality service operators. Generally, AmiNET products are supplied with the IntAct™ IPTV software stack pre-loaded.
Amino Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amino Technologies plc. listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM, symbol AMO. Amino’s HQ is based near Cambridge, UK, with offices worldwide.
PR contacts for Amino in the UK
Louise Tullin, Lewis PR
Millbank Tower, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RS, UK
T: +44 (0) 20 7802 2626
aminouk@lewispr.com
Antonio Gimeno, Amino Communications
Buckingway Business Park, Anderson Road, Swavesey, Cambridge, CB24 4UQ.
T: +44 (0) 1954 234 100
agimeno@aminocom.com
www.aminocom.com
PR contact for Amino in the US
Megan Grenter
LEWIS PR
T: +1 202-349-3775
megang@lewispr.com
www.lewispr.com
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