ANT (www.antplc.com), today announced that Exterity, a market-leading IPTV specialist, has licensed the ANT Galio 3.0 browser for use in its latest IPTV systems targeting the education, corporate and hospitality markets. ANT Galio Browser 3.0 is part of ANT's next generation software suite which enables companies such as Exterity to provide rich and dynamic multimedia services across a range of devices and a variety of media sources.
Launched in September 2008, ANT Galio 3.0 directly meets the needs of companies like Exterity which have a consistent need to deliver compelling user experiences across a diverse range of markets. The browser is an advanced standards-based solution that complements the capabilities of Exterity's receivers. By combining the latest television and Web standards with high performance in a small memory footprint, ANT Galio 3.0 enables users to develop groundbreaking interactive content and complex TV-based applications quickly and easily using existing knowledge and off-the-shelf tools. Exterity's end-user focused approach is shared by ANT which continues to focus on delivering fast, dynamic user interfaces that can be used across a variety of markets due to the standards-based nature of the software.
Exterity has proven experience in the design and manufacture of IPTV products including encoders, gateways, set-top boxes and middleware, that enable scalable, reliable and cost-effective delivery of TV, video, and other multimedia content across Local Area Networks. This approach has proven successful in the deployment of IPTV in educational services, hotel entertainment systems and corporate TV solutions.
Richard Baker, VP of Sales and Marketing at ANT, said: “We're pleased to see existing ANT Galio users benefiting from the enhancements we've made in the release of ANT Galio 3.0. Exterity has a flexible solution that can be targeted at a number of different markets. This approach is well suited to ours where we believe open standards are the key to delivering flexibility and performance.”
“By opting to incorporate ANT Galio 3.0 into our hardware, we can offer our reseller partners a highly competitive, cost-effective solution. Furthermore, we can enable our customers to create more compelling enterprise applications for the TV and also more visually creative and impactful user interfaces,”said Colin Farquhar, CEO at Exterity.
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 Cisco, 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).
About Exterity
Exterity Limited was formed in 2001 to create products that deliver broadcast quality digital video over IP networks within buildings. Exterity?s products represent a significant advance over the co-axial cable systems in common use today and are viable for deployment in both small- and large-scale TV and video distribution systems.
