March 12, 2002
Myrio V2.0 Software Provides Flexible Solution for BTexact Technologies’ Broadband Home and Office Demonstration
KIRKLAND, WA - Myrio Corporation, a provider of IPTV software and services today announced the successful integration of its open-standards based V2.0 software with multiple digital video head-ends, VDSL network platforms and set-top boxes (STB) into a ‘broadband home and office’ demonstration housed at Adastral Park, home of BTexact Technologies, BT’s advanced research and technology business.Myrio’s software solution allows operators to choose technology providers best fitting their business requirements, while dramatically reducing complex integration cycles.
“Businesses like BTexact Technologies can choose or recommend virtually any combination of suppliers needed to deliver and manage end-to-end video over IP services,” said Charles Jablonski, Myrio president and CEO. “Myrio’s solution removes the artificial dependencies often present in middleware designs. BTexact’s broadband home and office demonstration presented Myrio with an opportunity to prove its performance in a multi-vendor environment.”
“Myrio’s client and management software solutions were a key component in uniting a diverse network,” said Don Clarke, BTexact’s head of VDSL development. “Myrio’s professional services played a significant role in leveraging an extremely short integration process. As more operators recognize the revenue and subscriber retention possibilities available within their copper infrastructure, they will increasingly employ flexible solutions like Myrio.”
According to Clarke, BTexact Technologies has developed a world-class capability to integrate TV-based services across an ADSL and VDSL infrastructure. BTexact determined that an effective way to consolidate its expertise would be to install numerous content sources feeding multiple network platforms from different vendors with content destined for an assortment of consumer hardware such as STB’s and PCs. BTexact and Myrio demonstrated this by delivering content from two sources of digital TV, from one video on demand server, and from the Internet. All content was delivered across three different VDSL platforms to both thin and thick client STB’s. The entire installation, including integration with all hardware vendors, was completed within a 10-week period.
With multiple commercial deployments in US independent telephone companies and upcoming fiber-to-the-home installations, Myrio proves operators can profitably deliver digital TV, on-demand content, high-speed Internet access and other advanced services regardless of equipment supplier preference.
“Integrating multiple technologies is a complex task. Myrio could never accomplish such an undertaking without strong partner relations,” noted Jablonski. “The Myrio architecture provides the foundation for working relationships resulting in successful demonstrations such as that we have just completed with BTexact.”
About BTexact Technologies
BTexact Technologies, part of the BT Group plc*, is BT’s advanced research and technology business, and offers expertise and experience in communications technology and e-business, backed by a team of more than 3000 technologists and one of the world's largest communications research and development facilities. As the centre of technical expertise for the BT Group, BTexact established a record of world-first achievement and of successful delivery of projects, large and small. It has also created an intellectual property portfolio of some 14,000 patents based on almost 2000 inventions. BTexact is also responsible for corporate incubator, Brightstar.
BTexact Technologies also provides services to companies outside the BT Group. It is headquartered at Adastral Park, at one end of the Cambridge-2-Ipswich Hi Tech Corridor, and is a founder member of the Cambridge Network. BTexact has people based worldwide - including locations across the UK and in Asia, continental Europe, and North America.
BTexact's employees include many who are world leaders in their specialist fields, working at the forefront of standards development and new technologies in areas including multimedia, IP and data networks, mobile communications, network design and management, and business applications. For more information about BTexact Technologies, please go to www.btexact.com
*British Telecommunications plc (LSE=BT.1.ASE).
About Myrio
Myrio is the leading provider of software and integration services that enable new video revenue opportunities for broadband service providers by leveraging their existing infrastructures. With Myrio's solutions, operators can offer next generation, TV-based services and media to their customers. In turn, operators can protect their valuable residential assets from competitors, such as cable and satellite companies. A pioneer in the industry, Myrio has commercially deployed its solutions to operators throughout the United States, and is conducting customer trials internationally as well.Myrio is a privately held corporation funded by Ridgewood Capital, NeoCarta Ventures, and Alexander Hutton Venture Partners. For more information, please visit Myrio's web site at www.myrio.com.
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