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AMO News Stratacache Enables Low-Cost Digital Signage Networks Based on Amino IPTV Set-Top Boxes
DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stratacache today announced that it has integrated its ActiVia for Media
digital signage software on Amino set-top boxes (STBs), enabling the use
of low-cost Amino devices as media players in digital signage networks.
With their small form factors and plug-and-play deployment, Amino STBs
make it easy for retailers and other organizations to establish robust,
fully-managed and cost effective digital signage networks to tens of
thousands of locations. ActiVia for Media allows companies to schedule,
manage and distribute digital signage content to as many as 100,000
media players from a central server cluster.
ActiVia for Media provides centralized configuration, management,
monitoring, content scheduling, distribution, playlist control, and
reporting for digital signage networks. With proven Amino STBs now
integrated with ActiVia for Media client software, distributed
enterprises can easily create digital signage networks that incorporate
reliable and cost-effective content distribution with full edge device
management. The new Amino-based solution is especially useful for
retailers, where low cost Amino flash or disk-based STBs can be used for
both digital signage and corporate e-learning applications.
“Stratacache is a market leader in software
for digital signage networks, and our STBs give retailers and other
organizations an easily deployable solution for distributed locations,”
said Roy Kirsopp, VP & General Manager of Amino Communications. “With
ActiVia for Media built in, Amino STBs become the easiest and most
cost-effective way to power digital signage in stores or branches.”
The AmiNET range of STBs represents a more compact solution for driving
digital signage displays in branches. Rather than dealing with servers
or PCs, retailers can deliver digital signage content by simply
connecting an Amino STBs to the store network.
“This solution shatters the cost barrier for
simple retail digital sigange and it brings digital signage networks
within reach for retailers who haven’t been
able to implement them before,” said Chris
Riegel, CEO of Stratacache. “By adding the
ActiVia for Media client to Amino STBs, we are creating a new digital
signage solution that costs less and is far easier to deploy than
traditional PC or server based solutions.”
ActiVia for Media 3.0 for Amino STBs ships October 30.
About Amino
Amino Communications (www.aminocom.com)
supplies the AmiNET™ series of set-top boxes,
renowned for their low-cost and reliability. The AmiNET range materially
reduces service operators’ capital
expenditure, whilst offering the full range of specification required;
MPEG2 and MPEG4 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, have brought the series industry accolades and the
company a leading position within the IPTV market.
The AmiNET series of IPTV set-top boxes has been used by more than 500
customers in commercial deployments and trials in over 50 countries
worldwide. The set-top boxes have also been sampled by another
additional 700 customers. Amino Communications’
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 is based
near Cambridge, UK, and has offices in Atlanta Georgia and Hong Kong.
About Stratacache
Stratacache is the world leader in efficient, scalable and cost
effective content distribution, digital media presentation and
application acceleration solutions for highly distributed, network
connected organizations. Serving Global 2000 customers and mid-tier
organizations in the retail, finance, service, manufacturing and
government markets worldwide, Stratacache's products transparently solve
large-scale content distribution and application performance challenges
while immediately providing tangible return-on-investment and
dramatically improved user satisfaction. Stratacache is based in Dayton,
Ohio USA and is privately held. For more information please visit www.stratacache.com
or e-mail info@stratacache.com
