Siemens IT Solution and Services deploys Anevia for IPTV services in United Kingdom

PARIS, France,- October 4th, 2007 -

Anevia, the IPTV technology provider and Siemens IT Solution and Services today announced the deployment of their solutions in BBC head offices in United Kingdom.

Siemens chose Anevia’s innovative technology for the introduction of an IPTV service . The service offers BBC staff contact with channels output at their desktop and through IP set-top boxes. Uses include the distribution of Arabic TV channels for the new World Service Arabic News channel launching later this year. The service offers more than 100 Radio and TV channels including Worldwide and English TV channels (economy, news, sports…).

Distribution could not be easier with an IPTV client as a standard component of the desktop and an easy to use web interface for channels and ordering set top boxes. The solution is highly configurable and scaleable with opportunities for local enhancements to the service.

Anevia IPTV products deployed are the Flamingo series for broadcast of satellite and DTT channels, and Sunbird for broadcast of internal channels from analog signals. Flamingo keeps the satellite video quality and streams it directly over IP, without encoding or transcoding. It enables a cost effective head-end solution as well as optimal video quality.
«Anevia is delighted to have been choosen and deployed by Siemens. This order involves a large number of Flamingos for each site implemented, and highlights Anevia top-level and carrier grade quality» stated Damien Lucas, co-Founder of Anevia.

After a first successful deployment in London, Anevia head end is being extended to the other offices in Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast and Birmingham in the next few weeks.

About Anevia:

Anevia is a telecom equipment supplier, specializing in the video element of Triple Play - Video on Demand, IPTV and digital recording.
Unlike traditional electronic solutions, the originality of Anevia’s approach is in its innovative software solution which combines broadband and broadcast television. As a result, Anevia has developed the TOUCAN VOD/nPVR servers and the FLAMINGO DVB-to-IP gateways which are compact, cost effective and fast to deploy.
Set up in 2003 by former members of the VideoLAN team that developed the VLC media player, Anevia is a French company, whose main investor is CDC Entreprises Innovation. Anevia’s products have been selected by a large number of telecom, xDSL and FTTH operators, broadcasters and system integrators worldwide.
More information on http://www.anevia.com

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