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The exhibition will form an integral part of the IPTV World Forum 06 and will be held in parallel to the conference. It will bring together related industry representatives from all over the world, creating a model platform to showcase products and services.
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About 3Vision About Associated Media Group About ANT ECI Telecom provides advanced telecommunications solutions to leading carriers and service providers worldwide. By translating a deep understanding of its customers' needs into innovative, technologically excellent solutions, ECI enables its customers to increase the value of their networks and reduce operating expenses. ECI's platforms enable carriers and service providers to easily introduce new revenue-generating services. ECI has pioneered key technologies including voice compression, SDH, DSL, and has enabled the establishment of global networks. ECI specializes in metro optical networks, broadband access, bandwidth management and carrier-class VoIP solutions. ECI’s Hi-FOCuS solution is a family of sophisticated Multi-Service Access Gateways that support the full scope of video, voice and data services for a wide array of broadband access applications. Designed to provide carrier-class support for residential and business customers’ present and future needs, this powerful, multi-service platform allows carriers and service providers to get down to business quickly and cost-effectively. Driven by a superior, highly flexible architecture that enables to add on new services as necessary, Hi-FOCuS leverages the maximum from existing network assets and leads operators down the path to profitability. For more information, please visit www.ecitele.com About English&Pockett Established in 1984, english&pockett are leading specialists in the creation of media brand identities, branded content and promotional design for cable and broadcast satellite providers worldwide. As pioneers in the creation of award winning branding, promotional packaging and navigational design for Pay-TV, N-VOD and VOD services; UPC/arrivo on demand, NOW TV, Homechoice Yes TV, Front Row, British Airways In-flight entertainment, & U>direct. english&pockett‘s specialist broadcast strategy, design and production teams are uniquely experienced to work with today’s IPTV providers. Other clients include: Channel News Asia, Discovery Networks, UEFA, Disney, DW-TV, Eurosport, SVT 1&2, TWI Interactive, ITV Networks, Premiere, TV 1 Danmark, Viasat, Russian Public TV, Nickelodeon International, TV4 Sweden and UBC Thailand. Come & Meet us during the IPTV World Forum 2006. Stand number 57, or contact: For more information, please visit www.english-pockett.com Ensequence® is revolutionizing the way advertisers, networks, channels, broadcasters, and operators interact with their viewers. Established in 2000, Ensequence is the premier provider of interactive TV software used to create, test, and air interactive shows and commercials. About Entone Entone is a leading provider of standards-based IPTV solutions that uniquely address two revolutionary developments in home entertainment: on-demand television and in-home multimedia networks. The company's proven technology enables content providers to reliably deliver a variety of personal television services, such as video-on-demand (VOD) and network personal video recording (nPVR). Entone's open and highly scalable solutions include a content ingest system, an intelligent asset manager, software-defined video servers, and residential IP video gateways. Established in 1999 by the team that deployed the world's first commercial IPTV VOD service, Entone's solutions have been successfully installed at a number of the world's leading video service operators, such as Consolidated Communications, Lyse Tele, Pioneer Telephone, PCCW, and Telewest, just to name a few. Entone is a privately held company with headquarters in California and global offices in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. The company is backed by leading venture capital firms and strategic investors such as BA Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Palomar Ventures, and TANDBERG Television. For more information, please visit www.entone.com About Espial Espial provides a Beyond Brandable™ user interface that enables the operator to customize their offering so that they can ‘Own their IPTV Subscribers'. The company is the recipient of the Deloitte and Touche 'Fast 500' top companies in North America three years running. Espial software is deployed and accredited for more than 100 consumer designs such as, Siemens, Motorola, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Amino Thomson, Philips, i3Micro Technologies, LodgeNet, OnCommand and S-Net Systems. For more information, please visit www.espial.com Even Technologies provides turnkey solutions for delivering profitable IPTV over the World Wide Web and existing telco infrastructures. Using PSI Smart Compression, Even Technologies provides DVD quality video streams at only 0.75Mbps, forever changing the landscape of the telecommunications industry. Internet television is now truly global with pristine quality full screen video. Telephone companies can capitalize on the triple play by offering complete network coverage for three TVs per home without upgrading their networks. With technology protected by nine worldwide patents, Even Technologies delivers the future of IPTV. See the Even Technologies real-time encoder and system details at the show. For more information, please visit www.entone.com Evertz has evolved from being a successful time code equipment developer to a globally recognized, reputable and dynamic broadcast equipment manufacturer. Founded in France in 1997, thanks to the great intuition of its president Michel Adam Lisowski, Fashion TV has become one of the best distributed satellite channels in the world: 31 satellite and 2,000 cable systems, with a total of 139 million households in 132 countries across five continents: 76 millions in Asia and Middle East, 40 million in Europe, 5.5 million in Africa, 5.5 million in North America, 10 million in South America and 1.8 million in Australia and New Zeeland (1%). These results are thanks to an extremely rich programming: 24 hours a day of style, fashion and pure beauty, with 500 hours of new programs every year, 300 catwalks, and 600 new clips every season. For more information, please visit www.ftv.com. About Global Digital Broadcast With many years of broadcasting and web technology experience, Global Digital Broadcast provides expertise with IPTV Channel solutions. A simple user interface transforms the internet into a global television network. Simply termed “The Solution”, GDBTV™ is a “channel in a box” product aimed at new broadcasters, content owners and well established broadcasters. From time of signing up to the GDBTV™ platform to broadcasting your channel is usually a 30 day turnaround but in some cases as quick as 7 days. GDB provides organisations of any size or location with the equipment and ability to rapidly deliver an end-to-end global IPTV channel. GDBTV™ enables Scheduled, On-demand, Advertising, Subscription and PPV models with Live delivery and Bluetooth DMX technology that can be streamed across the world to IP-Set Top Boxes and PC’s at broadcast quality. GDBTV™ gives the ability to broadcast a channel globally and on a shoe string from anywhere in the world. Every channel can utilise the latest in IP technology to maximise revenue on their content. Community channels like that of TVbrighton.com can generate local advertising, niche programming and an outlet for all that unseen archive material. Now anyone can broadcast without the budget constraints usually applied to television. For more information, please visit www.globaldigitalbroadcast.com Hansun Technologies Inc., the major IPTV equipment provider in China, designs and products digital multimedia products such as IPTV, DVB/IPTV, Internet PVR, Video Pod (VPod) and total solutions for home entertainment and communication center. The company has over 6 year R&D experience in the field of IPTV, and produces the most cost-effective and reliable IPTV products in the world. Its customers include major IPTV service providers in China, such as China Telecom, CNC, CEC, CCTV. For more information, please visit www.hansuntech.com About HP HP focuses more than 25 years of telecommunications expertise into a powerful integrated team - Network and Service Provider Solutions. The NSP group, along with 500 solutions partners, helps the world's top 200 service and equipment providers meet the voice, data, and entertainment needs of hundreds of millions of wireline and wireless subscribers. The NSP group brings to market complete telecommunications, content management and service delivery solutions, carrier-grade platforms and technologies, including OpenCall and OpenView software, as well as global services and support. These offerings are arrayed across network infrastructure, network services, operations and business support systems, mobile and rich media solutions and end user access. About IBM IBM is the number one provider o innovative digital media solutions, which help our customers create, manage and distribute valuable business and entertainment content. IBM helps companies create operational efficiencies and new revenue streams for digital content by providing industry expertise, open standards, scalable solutions, reliable security, infrastructure and next-generation thinking. For more information, please visit www.ibm.com ICTV™ offers a solutions-oriented approach for the delivery of new television services to cable and telecom subscribers that combine the standards-based technology of the ICTV HeadendWare platform with a portfolio of branded iTV applications and personalized interactive programming and addressable advertising opportunities. ICTV HeadendWare® enables network operators to deliver the widest variety of interactive programming and advertising to any digital set-top box. Combining centralized application servers and existing cable, telecom or wireless infrastructure, HeadendWare uniquely removes middleware constraints and allows the delivery of a high-quality Web-based interactive television experience – including animation, high-fidelity audio and full motion video. HeadendWare supports the latest versions of HTML, JavaScript™, Java™, Windows Media Player®, Flash®, RealPlayer® and QuickTime®, enabling network operators and advertisers to reach subscribers with a limitless array of content, applications, branding and addressable advertising opportunities. The company is based in California, with its international headquarters in the United Kingdom. Strategic investors include Liberty Media, Motorola, OpenTV, Shaw Communications, TV Guide, Cox Communications and Lauder Partners. For more information, please visit www.ictv.com About Industria Industria is a leading broadband solutions provider and systems integrator involved in the design, implementation and operation of multi-play broadband networks for investment companies, utilities, property developers and telecommunications companies. Through its next-generation integration, network management and billing platform, Industria provides the software systems to manage and drive network revenues. At the same time, the company’s groundbreaking new Zignal IPTV software solution combines a wealth of features never before offered by a single provider into a user-friendly package delivering a range of revenue-generating, profile-driven IPTV services. Accessible from any set-top box and remote control, services include digital broadcast TV, video-on-demand (VoD), personal video recording (PVR), digital radio and on-line gaming, all accessed through a fast, simple-to-navigate user interface incorporating a highly functional electronic programme guide (EPG) and menu system. For more information, please visit www.industria.com About IneoQuest IneoQuest Technologies, Inc., the Video over IP Quality SpecialistsTM, provides high-speed test tools for monitoring, debugging and maintaining Media over IP networks in the telephony, cable, broadcast and enterprise/campus markets, as well as OEMs worldwide. IneoQuest enables its customers with 1- and 10-Gigabit Ethernet technologies to design, build, deploy, and manage next-generation converged Networks. Headquartered in Mansfield, Massachusetts, IneoQuest has sales operations in the US, Asia and European regions. For more information, please visit http://www.ineoquest.com/ About Intracom INTRACOM Telecom bears an extensive thirty year experience in developing and offering complete telecommunications solutions for customers in SouthEastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. INTRACOM Telecom develops state-of-the-art telecommunication equipment and systems that include wireless & wireline multiservice broadband access systems, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint microwave transmission systems, triple-play content delivery systems, public-service integrated systems and intelligent terminal devices. Our engineers implement large-scale, turn-key projects and provide a wide range of technical support, managed operations, consulting and outsourcing services to telecommunications operators in the markets we serve. For more information, please visit http://www.intracom.com/ About Irdeto Irdeto is a world leader in content security and provides comprehensive solutions for digital content protection in Digital TV, IPTV and Mobile environments. The company’s support, sales and R&D offices are located worldwide with corporate headquarters near Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Irdeto offers both hardware- and software-based solutions. The company works with an impressive list of leading industry partners to create end-to-end solutions for any pay-media business. With more than 200 customers in 40 countries, Irdeto is the world’s most widely deployed content security platform. Irdeto’s solutions are deployed in some of the world’s most demanding security applications, including pay media, telco, mobile and government environments. Irdeto is the technology arm of MIH, a multinational provider of entertainment, interactive and e-commerce services to millions of consumers via the television and the Internet; it is also a wholly-owned subsidiary of successful, multinational media group Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN and JSE: NPN). For more information, please visit http://www.irdeto.com/index.html About JacobsRimell JacobsRimell (JR) has an enormous amount of experience with integrating, provisioning and managing DTV and its associated services simultaneously with Voice and Data for some of the world largest operators. David Jacobs JR’s CTO will discuss the key information management processes, including the necessary application integration requirements that operators need to implement when rolling out large scale and differentiated IPTV services. For many operators IPTV will be the next major service release and may well be a part of the drive towards convergence as well as towards developing an IMS compliant service delivery architecture – JR will explain how this can become a reality by getting the information architecture right first. For more information, please visit www.jacobsrimell.com JDSU is committed to enabling broadband & optical innovation in the communications, commercial and consumer markets. JDSU is a leading provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and network equipment manufacturers. Furthermore, JDSU is a leading provider of innovative optical solutions for medical/environmental instrumentation, semiconductor processing, display, brand authentication, aerospace and defense applications, and decorative. Whether you are involved in analog or compressed video, delivered over a cable or telecommunication infrastructure, JDSU offers the manufacturing, deployment, and service assurance solutions needed to deliver on the promise of high quality video to the consumer. JDSU solutions provide unsurpassed visibility and reach into data/IP traffic so that you can roll out new services faster and manage network resources for maximum profit and efficiency. For more information, please visit www.jdsu.com Kasenna, the IPTV company TM, is a leading provider of next-generation platforms for video content and service delivery. Kasenna's carrier-grade solutions enable telecommunications service providers, cable operators and other industries to maximize their profit by offering new video entertainment services that redefine and enhance the subscriber experience. The company’s products and solutions suite consists of IPTV middleware, Video on Demand (VoD) and other content distribution services. Kasenna, Inc. is privately held with headquarters in Mountain View, California and office locations worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.kasenna.com Since entering the IPTV industry in 2000, Kreatel has established itself as a leading player and provider to IPTV deployments. The company delivers an optimized combination of set-top boxes, software and professional services, proven to satisfy service providers' need for a stable and future-proof solution for creation and rollout of profitable TV services. Among the customers are Telefónica (Spain), TeliaSonera (Sweden) and KPN (the Netherlands). In February, Motorola entered an agreement to acquire Kreatel and integrate its operations into the Motorola Connected Home Solutions business. For more information, please visit www.kreatel.com About Latens Latens technology has the added benefit that it is easily extended to provide security for the PVR & multiple set-top boxes homes and is uniquely cost-effectively scalable to multi-million user networks. Latens business benefits include lower implementation and running costs, increased business flexibility and major cash-flow advantages. The pay TV market has always faced a long-term challenge from piracy, with hackers targeting conditional access systems (CAS), breaching security codes, and gaining unlawful access to valuable content – most commonly through card-based security systems. Latens pioneered the move away from traditional card-based security by developing a new system of dynamically renewable software-based security. Whilst the functionality of our Content and Revenue Protection is based on global experience of Pay-TV operations dating from the birth of digital TV, our solutions provide the essential functions needed for revenue protection and content protection together with the business and operational support for deploying multi-channel and on-demand applications such as IPTV and VOD. For more information, please visit www.latens.com/ Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. Lucent Technologies’ mobility strategy is to provide the highest performance end-to-end wireless offers that allow service providers to build extended value networks with partners who provide mobile Internet applications. For more information, please visit www.lucent.com Magicweb is the inventor, copyright and patent pending holder of BOIP (broadcasting over internet protocol) which is forerunner of IPTV (internet protocol television transmission). To develop and launch the most comprehensive, completely interactive and customizable television-related website as a backbone of our primary services of broadcast delivery from the broadcaster to the distributor. And to promote and license the MagicWeb broadcasting products. For more information, please visit www.magicweb.com MatrixStream Technologies Inc. is a company on the leading edge of IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and Video-On-Demand (VOD) internet solutions. MatrixStream has developed an end-to-end system that will revolutionize the way people watch TV, movies and videos using patent-pending MatrixCast™ technology. The MatrixStream VOD solution gives the power of choice back to the viewing public - allowing access to an entire virtual video rental store right from the comforts of their homes. MatrixStream VOD subscribers can watch DVD- or HDTV-quality videos at a time that's convenient to them, without fear of ever having to pay for annoying late return fees. For more information, please visit www.matrixstream.com Miranda Technologies is a world leader in the research, development and manufacture of digital video and audio equipment that is used in all stages of production and distribution, from point of acquisition through to transmission. The company's products have become standards in major TV networks, telcos, post-production facilities and AV installations around the globe, providing conversion, command and control, presentation, monitoring, and video/audio distribution. While Miranda's product line continues to grow, so does its reputation as a global leader, providing only the highest-quality products at indisputable price/ performance ratios. Miranda's family of technology companies include Oxtel Inc., renowned for their complete range of channel branding products, from entry level through to master control. Headquartered in Montreal, Miranda also has major offices in Hong Kong, Paris, Tokyo and Wallingford, U.K. In addition, a network of professional distributors and dealers represents the company’s products worldwide. For more information, please visit www.miranda.com About Modulus Video Modulus Video, Inc. is the only company focused exclusively on creating the MPEG-4 AVC systems that are enabling satellite, telecommunications and cable providers to deploy IPTV networks that deliver new HD digital television services. With products for both standard and high definition video already being installed by customers, Modulus Video is helping operators set their distribution networks on the path to success by delivering the best quality video in the least bandwidth possible. Since its founding in 2002, Modulus Video has set the pace for development of MPEG-4 AVC systems. Modulus was first to offer a live demonstration of HD AVC (2003); first to demonstrate real-time HD AVC (2004); and the first to offer a live demonstration of real-time, HD AVC encoding at bit rates as low as 5.5 Mbps (2005). Modulus products provide the most complete implementation of the AVC toolkit, but they were also conceived as powerful elements in an end-to-end ecosystem that includes leading, third-party set top box, head end infrastructure and systems integration. The company has aggressively sought, and been sought by, world-class partners that are eager to benefit from Modulus’ technical leadership. Modulus Video and its singular vision regarding MPEG-4 AVC deliver the ultimate in video quality and value, offering the most comprehensive MPEG-4 AVC SD and HDTV video processing found anywhere in the industry. For more information, please visit www.modulusvideo.com Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company, is the world's leading provider of DRM and Conditional Access systems for Digital TV and Video-on-Demand over all forms of access network. Featuring extremely strong authentication, scalability, DRM and Copy Protection features, Nagravision’s security solution is accepted by Premium TV producers and Hollywood. Nagravision technologies are used by over 100 leading Pay TV service providers worldwide securing content delivered to over 57 million subscribers over IP and Broadcast infrastructures. The Kudelski Group is headquartered in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland and its stock is listed on the Swiss market Index. For more information, please visit www.nagra.com Narrowstep™ Inc (OTC BB: NRWS) is a leading provider of internet-based video content delivery (TV on IP). Narrowstep’s product and service offerings enable customers to distribute channels of video-based content and provide related services over the internet. The Narrowstep system, TelVOS™, enables comprehensive delivery of video content and television-like programming to mobile, wireless, internet, broadband and broadcast services. The Narrowstep system enables owners and users of video content to reach audiences by “narrowcasting” – targeting delivery of specific content to interested groups. Narrowstep provides services to clients in the United Kingdom, the United States, and various other countries throughout the world, including Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. For more information, please visit www.narrowstep.com NDS Synamedia solution provides a complete content protection and rights management solution for digital IP television, Video-on-Demand, and the authentication of users and applications. Created by NDS, global leaders in conditional access, Synamedia answers the specific needs of the broadband entertainment industry. Synamedia recognizes that content security is the key to licensing quality content, and that good content is the key to a successful business. NDS has deployed IPTV content protection systems at Softbank in Japan, Supersun in Hong Kong, Sistema in Russia, Viasat in Sweden, Aunan in Spain, Intelsat in the USA and Cyprus telecom among others. Headquartered in the UK, with offices worldwide, NDS employs over 2500 people and continues to make a major commitment to R&D, with over 1600 employees dedicated to pioneering development work at centres in Israel, France, Denmark, UK, USA, China, Korea and India. For more information, please visit www.nds.com About OpenTV OpenTV is one of the world's leading providers of technologies and services enabling the delivery of digital and richer interactive television experiences. OpenTV's platform software has been deployed in over 57 million digital set-top-boxes in 96 countries, reflecting growth from network operators expanding into new markets, and from existing customers enhancing their digital services with new functionality. OpenTV offers advanced digital television solutions on disparate networks and on various software platforms, including video on demand, personal video recorders, interactive shopping, interactive and addressable advertising, games and gaming, a full-featured IPTV solution, and a variety of consumer care and communication applications. The company seeks to continually expand its suite of market-leading solutions as new methods of distributing digital media emerge, and to partner with network operators in capitalizing on the growth opportunities that lie ahead. OpenTV is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices worldwide. Its Class A Ordinary Shares are listed on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol OPTV. For more information, please visit www.opentv.com Operax provides carrier grade products and solutions for QoS Control in Multi Service Networks where resource and policy based admission control is essential. Operax customers are network operators and service providers aiming to gain a competitive advantage through efficient QoS control. The Operax Bandwidth Manager is a carrier grade software system for telecom operators and carriers and performs bandwidth management, a function also known as network resource control, QoS management or QoS control. It is based on standards compliant technology, which ensures end-to-end transport Quality of Service for any IP service or application, including Video on Demand and IPTV offerings. In addition to being multi-vendor, multi-services and multi-technology, Operax solutions enable service providers and network operators to create superior new services rapidly and to realize new revenue streams while minimizing capital expenditures and increasing operational efficiency. Founded in 2000, Operax is a privately held company with headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden and offices in Luleå, Sweden and Seoul, South Korea. The company is owned by Nordic Venture Partners, Innovacom and Emano, along with its founders. For more information, please visit: www.operax.com PacketFront is the leader in FTTH technology and next generation broadband aggregation. Its unique combination of central control and automation systems and advanced routers power the most demanding broadband networks in the world. PacketFront’s solutions also uniquely enable new business models such as open access triple-play networks, where multiple content providers deliver competing services over the same physical infrastructure. Our proven IP TV solution ensures that TV content is distributed securely and with high quality on a network purpose built for fine-grained service control and maximum cost efficiency. The solution eliminates the risk for content manipulation and uses multicast as the technology for distribution, thus conserving bandwidth. Added flexibility on channel selection enables TV providers to reach more customer groups and thus create more diverse and better service offerings in order to increase revenue possibilities. At the heart of PacketFront’s solution is BECS™, our award-winning control and provisioning system that enables control of each single service to the end user individually, as opposed to controlling the whole access line. Furthermore, the high level of automation in BECS™ allows network owners to manage the network with a minimum of resources. The company is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and has offices in Boston, Oslo, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Seoul. For more information, please visit www.packetfront.com/ About Phoenix Datacom Phoenix Datacom is the UK's leading independent supplier of network performance test and measurement equipment, serving network equipment manufacturers, fixed, mobile and cable operators - at every stage from lab R&D to deployment testing to routine installation and maintenance. The expected growth in Triple Play (voice, video and data all from one provider over one IP network) and IPTV implies big changes throughout the delivery network - core, edge and broadband access network. Service providers, Network Equipment manufacturers and cable providers all face new challenges - firstly to develop and deploy effective networks, secondly, to troubleshoot and maintain new technologies, and thirdly, to manage, measure and prove delivered QoE (Quality of Experience). The sensitivity of these new services both to network impairments and to bandwidth competition radically changes the testing philosophy all the way from testing physical layer to testing functions such as Graceful Restart. Phoenix Datacom represents the leading test equipment manufacturers who are specialising in this area, including Agilent Technologies and IneoQuest, one of the prime movers promoting a new MDI (Media Delivery Index) standard for objective measurement of a network's ability to deliver streamed video. For more information, please visit www.phoenixdatacom.com Pixelmetrix Corporation is the global expert in Preventive Monitoring for digital television networks. The company provides equipment and network intelligence systems to television broadcasters for management and monitoring of quality of service. Headquartered in Singapore, Pixelmetrix has offices in the United States and Europe. Pixelmetrix is a member of DVB and the ITU’s Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG). Pixelmetrix customers include CNN, CBS, Disney, HBO, NHK, Japan Telecom, KPBS, NTL, Sky PerfecTV! Japan, British Telecom, Canal+ and Télédiffusion de France. It is the winner of the Peter Wayne Award for Best Design and Innovation IBC 2000, winner of the STAR 2000 and 2004 Superior Technology Award from TV Technology Magazine, and recipient of a Cable-Satellite/Mediacast Product of the Year award 2003 and 2004. The terms Preventive Monitoring, DVStation, DVStation-Remote, DVStation-Pod, DVStation-IP, DVStor, DVShift, DVScope, and DPI Auditor are trademarks of Pixelmetrix Corporation. For more information, please visit www.pixelmetrix.com About Ruckus Wireless, Inc. Formed in June 2004 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Ruckus Wireless is a next generation wireless company specializing in multimedia 802.11 wireless systems for home networks. It designs, develops and markets products and technologies that enable the home media network ecosystem and are designed for the simultaneous transmission of voice, video and data communications over standards-based Wi-Fi networks. The company's patent-pending hardware and software technologies deliver improved speeds, whole-house coverage and reliable performance to the vast installed base of home wireless networks to enhance consumer experience in rich data and real-time media applications. The company has raised approximately $14 million in two rounds of venture financing from top investors including\ Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, WK Technology Fund and Investment A.B. Ruckus Wireless is led by Selina Lo, CEO, and Dominic Orr, Chairman of the Board. For more information, please visit http://www.video54.com About Ruwido Austria Ruwido was founded in Salzburg, Austria in 1969. In 1975, the first infrared remote control in the world was released - since then ruwido is a leading remote control manufacturer. The products, technology and services are available in many countries. The customer portfolio includes companies like Telecom Italia, Swisscom, KPN, Telsey, Siemens, Thomson, Pace, KISS, Cisco, Sagem, Humax, Motorola, Scientific Atlanta, Premiere, canal+, NTL, ONO, UPC, Telenet, Kabel Deutschland, Metz, Loewe, Sony …. For more information, please visit www.ruwido.com Sagem Communication (SAFRAN Group) is amajor player in the Mobile and Broadband Communication industries, who hasacquired a strong world-wide position thanks to renewed innovation. SAGEMproducts stand-out particularly in the following activities: mobile phones,printing terminals, residential terminals, digital TV, networks, electronicmetering and cables, etc. The company entered in the STB business in1989 by manufacturing analog decoders with digital conditional access, andlaunched its first digital set-top boxes in 1996. In November 2005, SagemCommunication achieved a World First, with the roll-out of the first MPEG4 STBsrange based on a Single-Chip Video Decoder. One of the models of this new rangeis the SAGEM ITAD80, an hybrid STB for both IPTV (Internet Protocol Television)and Free-to-air DTT, already deployed by several customers. Today, SagemCommunication is Europe’s leading STB manufacturer for digital terrestrial andIP TV, thanks to a wide range of products, from entry-level STBs with limitedfunctionality – also known as ‘zapper’ boxes – to advanced twin-tuner digital TVreceivers with integrated Hard Disk Drive (Personal Video Recorders). For more information, please visit www.sagem.com and www.safran-group.com About Scientific Atlanta Scientific-Atlanta Europe NV is a part of Scientific-Atlanta Inc. a technology leading company that advances the delivery of entertainment, communications and information through its broadband and broadcast network technology and services worldwide. The company’s innovative products, systems and services enable broadband, broadcast and telecom operators to deliver a wide variety of integrated digital interactive video, data and voice services to consumers – including Personal Video Recording/Digital Video Recording (PVR/DVR), High Definition Television (HDTV), Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), Video-on-Demand (VOD), Wireless, advanced compression and Voice over IP (VoIP). Customers include top cable operators and broadcasters such as Telewest, T-Systems, ARD, RAIWAY, NTL and Auna. Scientific-Atlanta has a long-term track record of growth and stability, making it a key player in the worldwide entertainment, information and communications industries. The company’s technology is based on a firm commitment to end-to-end yet modular solutions, so that operators can choose from a wide variety of open-architecture solutions that are pre-integrated, pre-tested, field-proven and compliant with key and international standards, such as DVB, DOCSIS and EuroDOCSIS, MPEG, HMS and CENELEC. Headquartered in Kortrijk, Belgium, Scientific-Atlanta Europe has an extensive local presence throughout the European region, and is committed to solutions that meet its customers’ individual business and operational requirements. For more information visit http://www.scientificatlanta.com/IPTV About Seachange SeaChange International provides digital video systems that are changing television. Its powerful server and software systems enable television operators to provide new on-demand services and to gain greater efficiencies in advertising and content delivery. With its Emmy-winning MediaCluster technology, thousands of SeaChange systems are helping broadband, broadcast and satellite television companies to streamline operations, expand services and increase revenues. SeaChange is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts and has product development, support and sales offices throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.seachange.tv Sentivision is an innovative provider of cutting-edge media technologies and products for the digital entertainment market. Our products include: Complete Solutions for Video On Demand (VOD) and IP-TV broadcasting over the Internet Set Top Boxes supporting H.264/AVC and VC-1 over IP networks. Sentivision is committed to providing its customers with solutions enabling secure and reliable video transmission over low and medium bandwidth IP-based networks such as ADSL. Sentivision is based in Tokyo, Japan with R&D based in Warsaw, Poland. For more information, please visit www.sentivision.com Established in 2000 SetaBox Technology (STC) is an experienced company located in Taipei, Taiwan. STC is specialized in developing and designing advanced media streaming products and providing totally integrated solutions for its customers. It provides IP set-top box total solution for different segments and timeframes, so far it can fully support more format on H.264(AVC) and wmv9 for SD TV. STC has put together an experienced R&D team, which includes several PhDs and Masters. Elite staff coming from NTU’s Communication & Multimedia Laboratory, reinforce STC’s technologies in every aspect, including: Codecs (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, wmv9,H.264, wma, MP3, AAC), streams and protocols (Transport Stream, Program Stream, RTP, RTSP) and hardware design (decoder card, set-top box, residential gateway, media adapter). At present, STC is working to expand & focus on Embedded MPEG-4 Visual Codec & Streaming Set-top Box Series product. Established for nearly six years SetaBox has been focusing on developing multimedia streaming technologies and products used in IP broadband networks. SetaBox has a mature and highly integrated embedded solution to meet telcos’ and MSOs’ multimedia services. SetaBox is also the well-known original designer for the set-top box adopted by Japan telecommunications (NTT East) for IPTV services with IPV6 network support. For more information, please visit www.setabox.com Shenick Network Systems is an award winning global supplier of high performance, Triple Play communications test systems. - IPTV channel zap rate test - multicast protocols IGMP v1,2,3, MLDv2 For more information, please visit www.shenick.com Siemens Communications is one of the largest providers worldwide of telecommunications infrastructure, solutions and services for mobile, fixed and enterprise networks. Unsurpassed internationally, Siemens Communications unites under one roof the experience, innovating power and the ability to deliver in all key segments of voice and data communication. Siemens Communications is a world leader in innovations for the mobile, fixed and enterprise network segments. With this innovating power, Siemens Communications creates telecommunication solutions that meet the demands of network operators and enterprises for integrated technology and open up new opportunities. At the forefront of all of the products, solutions and services offered by Siemens Communications is the aim of making communication easier and more efficient – hence creating customer value. This is the foundation upon which Siemens Communications is developing communication solutions for the future. We have named this route to the future LifeWorks: this stands for universal access to all communication services and applications, regardless of network or end device. Focusing on what’s important to the customer – that’s what LifeWorks and Siemens Communications are all about. Siemens Communications operates in more than 160 countries and in fiscal 2005, its roughly 54,500-strong workforce posted sales of more than 13 billion euros. For more information, please visit http://www.siemens.com/communications About Sigma Designs Sigma Designs specializes in digital media processing solutions for consumer products. Sigma's highly-integrated solutions provide high-quality decoding of high-definition MPEG-4.10 (H.264), VC-1, WMV9, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 content. Complementing this core technology, Sigma offers complete reference designs for select market segments, including networked DVD players, portable media players, IPTV (video over IP) set-top boxes, digital media adapters and HDTV receivers. Sigma Designs' products are sold worldwide through a direct sales force and distributors. Sigma's Common Stock, publicly traded since 1986, is listed on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol SIGM. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, the company also has sales offices in China, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, please visit www.sigmadesigns.com/ About Simac Broadcast Simac Broadcast is one of the first to have arrived at the crossroads of what used to be separate routes for video and audio delivery and IP-based networking. We are a true triple play integrator that offers products and services for total process control and the power toper form. All day. Every day. Simac Broadcast specializes in digital video/audio compression, multiplexing and networking systems and offers its clients a complete package of services. These services range from consultancy and project management to hands-on service- and support. Consultancy activities cover system architecture and design, vendor selection, integration with related systems (CA, Scheduling etc.), and migration paths to the new generation compression platforms. Simac Broadcast manages these extensive projects and is capable of servicing a wide variety of compression platforms and related equipment with a 24x7 worldwide service and support organization. For more information, please visit www.simacbroadcast.com/ SkyStream, a leader in IP video delivery, was founded in 1996 with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Its first product, now known as the Source Media Router, maximized bandwidth usage in video routing for the satellite industry. Today, SkyStream also manufactures video headends for IPTV and develops content delivery solutions for mobile and fixed devices. SkyStream’s unique, market-leading product portfolio is deployed by more than 250 customers over IPTV, cable, satellite, broadcast and wireless networks. SkyStream products enable customers to generate new revenues from advanced services and applications including broadcast TV, Movies On Demand, content delivery, and business TV. SkyStream’s value proposition lies in innovative product design, which is based on high-density, multi-function video delivery architectures that pack more services in the same bandwidth and offer storage and operational efficiencies. By focusing on value for customers, SkyStream’s software and hardware products can lower op-ex and cap-ex costs to provide services by 40 - 50% and optimize video delivery anywhere, over any network. SkyStream offers a diverse product portfolio with rich functionality built around providing IP video delivery solutions for a wide range of businesses and government agencies, including global 500 companies, leading service providers, enterprise business, home entertainment companies, content owners and network operators. For more information, please visit www.skystream.com Established in 1973, Snell & Wilcox empowers digital media companies to erase video format and standards boundaries in order to successfully create, package and distribute revenue-generating content to multiple delivery platforms throughout the world. Harnessing the power of the most advanced video signal processing technologies ever developed, the company designs and manufactures high-performance intelligent The company’s unique expertise in digital signal processing, video compression and image conversion have made it a global leader in the dynamic technology transitions that are shaping the digital media industry. The company’s products have been instrumental in the For more information, please visit www.snellwilcox.com/ Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision - "The Network Is The Computer" - has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit www.sun.com Sunniwell are designers, developers and suppliers of Set Top Box product and solutions for IPTV, VOD, PVB and VoIP applications. Numerous years of experience in this market enable Sunniwell to understand requirements and a varied product range supporting al the newest media codecs, ensures Sunniwell have a solution that will suit customers specialised requirements. If you are operating in the Broadcast, Telecommunications, Media, Hospitality, or are a systems integrator requiring a solution the either Sunniwell have a solution that will work for you or can develop one. For more information, please visit www.sunniwell.tv A world leader in professional video compression, TANDBERG Television provides innovative solutions for the management, manipulation and delivery of IPTV and on demand video services over DSL or FTTH networks. With over 30 real-world IPTV deployments, TANDBERG Television is playing an important role in the industry’s development of complete, end-to-end systems for IPTV delivery for both MPEG-2 and the new MPEG-4 AVC and Windows Media 9 Series (SMPTE VC-1) encoding platforms. TANDBERG Television has taken a pioneering lead in the development of professional, broadcast-quality SD and HD encoding solutions for both the advanced codecs. Both platforms significantly reduce bit rates compared to MPEG-2 and are key enabling technologies for telcos with bandwidth-restricted DSL infrastructures. Moreover, TANDBERG Television’s recently launched HD encoders for MPEG-4 AVC and VC-1 produce excellent HD image quality at lower bit-rates for live TV than ever seen before. The massive bit-rate reductions of up to 60% on MPEG-2 performance enables new and improved business models and improved operational efficiency by creating the ability to offer HD services on some ADSL networks to the home where previously only SD was possible. For more information, please visit www.tandbergtv.com Italian based Telsey Telecommunications S.p.a, is one of Europe’s leading Access Gateway, IP STB and Home Networking solution providers for the distribution of broadband interactive services on both FTTx and xDSL next generation networks. Already working with Europe’s most successful and established Triple-Play service providers, the completeness of Telsey’s Triple-Play product portfolio has made the company a valued “one stop shop” provider for the tailored delivery of advanced IP services to service providers customers. Featuring ADSL2+ and TR-069 ready residential gateways and IP set top boxes supporting the full spectrum of video formats including HD H.264, simultaneously distributed throughout the home courtesy of Telsey’s power-line and enhanced Wi-Fi home networking technologies, Telsey makes the ideal Triple-Play solution partner! To see first hand both the power of HD H.264 and the full benefit of TR-069 enabled hardware, visit us on stand number 49 where we can demonstrate and share with you the experiences that we have in the delivery of true carrier class Triple-Play services. For more information, please visit www.telsey.com/ About Texus Instuments As the leading supplier of DSP-based digital media technology, analog companion products, application specific software and system expertise, Texas Instruments offers a wide range of real world signal processing products that will shape future applications in the Connected Home Ecosystem. TI technology will allow you to give your customers differentiated, personalized and easy-to-use devices, streaming any content to any device, anywhere. Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers’ real-world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company’s businesses include Sensors & Controls and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. For more information, please visit www.ti.com. About Thomson Thomson provides services, systems and technology to help its Media & Entertainment clients - content creators, content distributors and users of its technology - realize their business goals and optimize their performance in a rapidly changing technology environment. The Group is the preferred partner to the Media & Entertainment Industries through its Technicolor, Grass Valley, RCA, and Thomson brands. Thomson's Systems and Equipment division develops video and film technologies, products and services sold to all major Hollywood studios, all major television, satellite, and cable broadcasters under the Grass Valley and Thomson brand-names for the delivery of analog and digital entertainment. Thomson's Access Platforms and Gateways (AP&G) activity, part of the systems and equipment division, is a leading supplier of digital entertainment receivers to the world's major satellite and terrestrial broadcasters, and multiple play solutions to the cable operators, telecom operators and internet service providers. For information, please visit www.thomsongrassvalley.com and www.thomson-broadband.com TW Electronics and UEI are working closely with many UK and European manufacturers in developing innovative remote and keyboard solutions for the new emerging world of convergence and triple play. For more information, please visit www.twelectronics.co.uk About Verimatrix Founded in 1999, Verimatrix is a leading provider of Pay TV encryption, content protection and security solutions that provide the ability to detect and prosecute digital piracy wherever it occurs within the distribution chain. With satisfied customers in North America, Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Australia, Verimatrix offers content provider approved carrier-class solutions specifically for today's bi-directional IPTV networks. Through the seamless integration of patented digital watermarking technology into its best-of-breed encryption solutions, Verimatrix protects content as well as revenue streams. Verimatrix has excellent relationships with the major Hollywood studios by providing valuable anti-piracy solutions for the fight against rampant digital piracy. About VIACCESS Viaccess S.A., a France Telecom company, provides content protection solutions such as Conditional Access and DRM systems. Backed by the significant R&D resources of France Telecom, its mission is to develop, produce and market content protection solutions for all types of contents and services, delivered by any kind of broadcast (satellite, cable, terrestrial, MMDS) and broadband (DSL, mobile) networks. VIACCESS addresses the new access needs of next-generation broadband infrastructures, markets and applications at the down of the 21st century. They include Video On Demand (VOD), the persistent protection of content on Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) and Digital Rights Management (DRM). As the third largest provider of content protection, Viaccess secures revenues of over 2 billion euros for 80 digital pay TV operators. Worldwide,Viaccess technologies have been successfully deployed in 30 countries, and installed in 12 million home devices. For more information, please visit http://www.viaccess.com/en/ Visiware is the world leading companyproducing iTV games. Visiware’s game channels can be played on 32 cable andsatellite networks in over 50 countries, where the channel is recognized as thenumber one iTV revenue maker application. Visiware is currently portingits interactive TV game channels (Playin’TV, Playin’Casino and Playin’Star) aswell as its huge catalogue of games to IPTV. First launches are scheduled in Q12005, including multi-player games, games on demand. For moreinformation, please visit http://www.visiware.com/ Widevine is the most widely deployed provider of content security solutions for IP video operators worldwide. Widevine enables telco, cable and satellite operators to generate new revenue opportunities through the secure distribution of their video distribution, identification and tracking of digital content. Utilizing a combination of hardware and software-based encryption, Cypher persistently encrypts both digital broadcast and video-on-demand (VOD) content, regardless of video infrastructure, network protocols or compression technologies. An innovator in the industry, Widevine invented the downloadable, software-based Cypher Virtual SmartCard™ client which today protects more IP video set-top boxes and devices in the industry than any other vendor. Widevine Virtual SmartCard clients quickly and affordably enable operators to combat piracy on set-top boxes, personal video recorders and other devices within the home. Widevine Secured operators are guaranteed to encrypt studio and broadcaster content, across any video distribution network and on any Widevine Secured device. Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, WA, funded by Charter Ventures, Constellation Ventures, PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Capital Partners, VantagePoint Venture Partners and Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP). For more information, please visit www.widevine.com. About Yuxing Yuxing InfoTech Holdings Limited (“Yuxing”) is a company listed on The Growth Enterprise Market (“GEM”) of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. With its comprehensive capability on R&D, mass production, marketing and customer service, the company is positioned as an e-home application solution provider based on digital media application Yuxing commenced its IP broadband business through Yuxing Software Co. Ltd. A company founded in the People's Republic of China. In 2003, the innovative “Digital Media Player” was introduced to the market. Yuxing has been successfully cooperating with PCCW-HK for years, as the IP-STB provider. The "NOW" broadband services from PCCW through ADSL network provide the subscribers with colourful TV frequency choices. After years of development, Yuxing has become a leading IP-STB provider around the world. For more information, please visit www.yu-xing.com |
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