ANT Delivers Compelling TV at CES 2007

 

Demonstrations with Scientific Atlanta, Quative and other leading industry partners show ANT's wealth of IPTV deployment experience and wide adoption around the world.
 
Cambridge, 20 December 2006
 
ANT plc (AIM: ANTP), the market leading provider of software and solutions for the IPTV, hybrid TV and consumer electronics industries, announced today that the company will show its solutions for delivering compelling TV in the IPTV Tech Zone (Pod #68829J) at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), 8-11 January at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas.
 
Demonstrating the versatility and reliability of the ANT Galio Client, visitors to the ANT stand will see advanced applications running on Galio using a Scientific Atlanta set-top box (STB) and middleware from Quative. The demo will illustrate Galio's delivery of key applications, including an electronic programming guide (EPG), video on demand (VOD), multiple skins, zapper, betting, search function and EPG magnifier.
 
The demonstration with Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company, builds upon ANT's recent announcement that the two companies have signed a licensing and distribution agreement. As part of this partnership, ANT will supply ANT Galio and the ANT Fresco browser for use within models of Scientific Atlanta's STBs.
 
"We are excited to debut the results of our most recent partnership with Scientific Atlanta and Quative at CES, as it is another proofpoint of ANT's ability to help operators offer high value TV services that increase revenue and profit per user," said Simon Woodward, CEO, ANT plc. "With ANT Galio, operators are able to achieve a short time to launch and reduced application development complexity, all while controlling hardware costs.
 
ANT will also show the strength of its partnerships with key industry players during demonstrations on the following partner booths at CES:
  • Scientific Atlanta (N227 North Hall)
  • Texas Instruments (26426E South Hall)
  • NXP (N217 North Hall)
About ANT Software Limited
ANT plc (www.antplc.com) is a leading provider of digital TV client and consumer electronic software solutions. ANT's unique client solutions allow robust and consistent delivery of digital-media, user interfaces, interactive services and applications to the TV and portable media devices. ANT enables service providers to efficiently create and deploy successful solutions to the market that deliver high value and clear differentiation.
 
ANT's products are pre-integrated with many industry-leading solutions and are based upon open standards, enabling low-risk, cost-effective roll-out of services, while ensuring flexible client hardware choice with efficient bill of materials. ANT software has been extensively deployed by customers throughout the world including 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).
 
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