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AMO News Stratacache Brings Reliable Multicast Content Delivery to Amino IPTV Set-Top Boxes
DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stratacache today announced that it has integrated its OmniCast content
distribution software on the Amino family of set-top boxes (STBs),
enabling the use of market-leading Amino devices as distribution points
for corporate video in branch locations. With OmniCast integrated on
Amino STBs, enterprises, banks, and retailers have a simple,
plug-and-play solution for enabling live or on-demand corporate video
access from branch locations. The solution powers applications such as
distributed e-learning, corporate communication, and associate training.
Amino is an emerging leader in set-top boxes used by service providers.
Enterprises that use OmniCast for distributing content from the
corporate data center can now use Amino STBs as effective branch video
access or storage unit. As simple auto-configuring devices, Amino STBs
can easily connect to existing in-store display devices or branch office
televisions and do not require a complex installation process. Users can
simply power up the unit and be ready to go.
“OmniCast extends our enterprise appeal to
retailers, banks, and other enterprises that need to bring video to
hundreds or thousands of branches,” said Roy
Kirsopp, VP & General Manager of Amino Communications. “With
OmniCast built in, Amino STBs become simple, plug-and-play devices that
bring low-cost video to any business location.”
From the data center, enterprises can use OmniCast’s
point-and-click portal interface to schedule video distribution jobs.
With features such as site-specific bandwidth controls and timed job
activation, companies can deliver videos to branches overnight, thereby
saving network bandwidth costs and eliminating congestion during
operating hours.
“OmniCast client software has already been
proven on hundreds of thousands of PCs and servers in branch locations
around the world.” said Chris Riegel, CEO of
Stratacache. “With our partnership with Amino,
we are able to extend the value of delivering video to the branch by
providing a cost effective, turnkey video on demand system for the
branch that is simple to set up and easy to use.”
OmniCast support for Amino STBs is available October 30, 2006.
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 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
