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AANI News Amedia Joins Its All-in-One Residential Gateway and Media Portal with Amino IPTV Platform To Form Foundation for New Broadband Entertainment Center Demo at CES
EATONTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amedia Networks, Inc. (OTC BB: AANI), a provider of next generation
media gateways to distribute and manage ultra-broadband triple-play
services in the home, today announced that it will feature Amino’s
flexible AmiNET130 HD/SD MPEG-2/4 IPTV device in Amedia’s
demonstration of its Broadband Entertainment Center -- an all-in-one
gateway, home networking appliance, and media portal -- at the 2007
International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Booth #26731 in
South Hall 2, running Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas, NV.
In addition to combining the collective functionality of a modem,
router, wireless access point, VoIP adapter, and more within a single
device, Amedia also provides an easy-to-use Media Library –-
allowing users to store, organize, search, and select their movies, home
videos, music, and other downloaded or streaming multi-media content
through a customizable interface or “portal.”
The Amedia gateway, built on the Broadband Entertainment Center
platform, essentially replaces the computer as the central “media
hub” within the networked home. Working in
conjunction with Amino’s compact AmiNET
series, the Amedia gateway empowers residential users with the ability
to surf the web at ultra-broadband speeds directly on their TV screens –
from the comfort of their couches. Supporting HDTV displays at 720p and
1080i resolution, the AmiNET130 enables service providers to deliver
cost effective on-demand video and multi-room IPTV services (supporting
the triple play offering of voice, data and media). The elegant
AmiNET130 supports H.264 (MPEG4/AVC) video streams and is modeled on the
same award-winning design as the AmiNET100 series allowing viewers to
experience superior video quality of movies stored on their gateway –
with the full capability to access, search, select, and play multimedia
from their personalized media libraries right from their TVs.
“By consolidating various home networking
gear into a single device and offering a new pathway to enjoy
multi-media content throughout the home, the Amedia gateway offers all
the best in comfort and quality for the home entertainment experience,”
said Frank Galuppo, President, CEO, and Director of Amedia Networks. “While
these capabilities have clear and tangible benefits for the home user,
the Broadband Entertainment Center ultimately provides
telecommunications carriers with a platform to better manage residential
triple-play services and expand revenue opportunities at the same time.”
The Amedia gateway also features a built-in, industry-standard software
operating system. This unique feature can be used by telcos to access
previously untapped revenue streams by allowing them to deliver
proprietary or third-party software programs and networking capabilities
to subscribers, such as in-home messaging, remote home monitoring, a
virtual family calendar, personalized family firewall, and much more.
Additionally, the gateway offers a Quality-of-Service (QoS) console for
subscribers and carriers alike, and can transmit wireless HDTV via
Ultrawideband (UWB) to various home entertainment and media devices
throughout the home.
“In-home media distribution is rapidly
evolving, evident by Amedia’s most recent
breakthroughs with its Broadband Entertainment Center platform –
which presents a new and exciting paradigm in home entertainment
centered around the television and family room, rather than the PC and
home office,” said Roy Kirsopp, VP and
General Manager at Amino. “As consumers
continue to drive demand for more enhanced home media, such as HDTV and
IPTV, Amino is committed to delivering powerful and flexible solutions
to support new challenges faced by carriers.”
About Amino
Amino Communications 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 600 customers in commercial deployments and trials in over 50
countries worldwide. The set-top boxes have also been sampled by another
additional 800 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.
For more, visit www.aminocom.com.
About Amedia Networks
Amedia Networks, Inc. (OTC BB: AANI) provides next generation
residential media gateways to distribute and manage high-quality voice,
high-definition video, and high-speed data services throughout the
networked home. The Amedia residential gateway offers a single, compact,
configurable device with the collective functionality of a modem,
wireless access point, router, VoIP adapter, and family firewall –
all in one. In addition, it features external media storage and a
built-in operating system for carriers to continuously develop and
deliver new, ultra-broadband applications to the home. The company is
led by an executive team with a long and proven history in the voice,
data, and telecom industries, and its core technologies have been
co-developed by Lucent Technologies, Inc.’s
renowned Bell Laboratories unit. For more information, visit www.amedia.com.
All company names, brand names, and product names herein are
trademarks of their respective holder(s).
This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as that
term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
A number of factors could cause Amedia's actual results to differ from
anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such
factors are addressed in Amedia's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov)
and include, but are not limited to, the success and market acceptance
of Amedia's triple play solution, the sufficiency of cash reserves to
meet operating and other requirements, the relatively fast pace of
obsolescence in the broadband communications equipment market, and the
competitive environment in the economy generally and in the
telecommunications specifically. Amedia assumes no obligation to update
any forward-looking statements.
