ANT launches new application development community for Connected TV
17 March 2009
ANT, the supplier of software solutions and services to the digital TV industry, has announced the launch of the ANT Academy, an applications community for connected TV. ANT Academy has been created to support the development of digital TV applications and services for the set-top box and iDTV markets. By adopting this approach ANT is building a community identifying and enabling next generation TV experiences based on the ANT Galio Platform.
The initial group of members includes both academic members, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Anglia Ruskin University and commercial members, Accedo Broadband, CloverLeaf Digital LLC, Datmedia, MiCard, Two Way Media, Vizimo, and weComm. The ANT Academy will deliver exciting and engaging new services based on the ANT Galio Platform by collaborating with the initial group of members and by adding new ones
“The ANT Academy will support members in reaching mass market with innovative applications and services,” said Richard Baker, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at ANT. “We’re supporting the community with a range of tools including the ANT Academy portal, an online resource that provides forums, sample code and technical specifications to help members develop to ANT ‘s standards based platform and to reach a global audience.”
“Whilst providing technical and operational support, ANT Academy will in parallel, promote close ongoing commercial and business relationships between members. These relationships will advance a new economy for TV commerce and leverage ANT’s extensive global deployment experience,” concluded Baker.
ANT on stand 70: Visitors to the IPTV World Forum will have the opportunity to learn more about the ANT Academy by visiting Stand Number 70. Here ANT will showcasing a video that gives further details about the ANT Academy and the initial group of associate members. If you would like to meet with ANT at the show for a press or analyst briefing please email ant@rainierpr.co.uk.
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 iDTV’s, 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 Cisco, Chunghwa Telecom, HwaCom, 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).
