Industria Signs Partnership Agreement With Anevia

Industria and Anevia partnership to strengthen sales of products and services

Reykjavik, 10 January 2008 -

Industria, a leading IPTV solutions provider, and Anevia, French designer of the TOUCAN VOD/nPVR servers, recently signed a partnership agreement that is intended to ensure successful sales activities between Industria's products and services and Anevia's products. The main focus of the partnership will be on marketing and sales of integrated solutions featuring Industria's flagship product, the Zignal IPTV software suite, and Anevia's TOUCAN VOD/nPVR servers.

This agreement shows the determination of both companies to further strengthen the good relationship that has developed between them. Industria's software development team has already integrated Zignal with Anevia's solutions and is currently demonstrating a pre-integration of Zignal and TOUCAN to prospective customers.

"By bringing together Zignal and TOUCAN we are convinced that our customers are getting not only the most innovative and original solutions available, but also the quality and capacity needed to deliver the best IPTV service," said Stefan Baxter, Industria CTO. "Our customers are very discerning and we know that our technology meets their high expectations."

"It was merely a matter of time and opportunity for Zignal and TOUCAN to meet! In their respective fields, both are outstanding, flexible and scalable products, which have anticipated current market trends. We are delighted to partner with Zignal, as this will deliver high quality and cost effective IPTV solutions to our customers" said Patrick Rabu, Anevia's Sales Director.

About Industria

Industria is a leading provider of broadband TV solutions and end-to-end digital services projects for telcos, network owners and broadband TV operators. The Zignal suite of innovative TV solutions enables service providers to provide consumers with triple-play services and beyond, both fixed-line and mobile. Zignal helps network operators drive revenues by enabling broadband TV, video, telephony and other services from different providers to share the same broadband connection. Among Industria's customers are investment companies, telecommunications companies, utilities and major property developers. The company is involved in several cutting-edge broadband projects in Northern Europe and the British Isles.
For further information on Industria and the company's activities, visit www.industria.com

About Anevia :

Anevia is a telecom equipment vendor, specialising on the video element of Triple Play – Video on Demand, Television over IP, network PVR. Unlike traditional electronic solutions, the originality of Anevia's approach is in having opted for an innovative software solution in its devices, which combine broadband and television. Broadcast meets broadband.
Technological disruption lies in the development of powerful algorithms for video processing. As a result, Anevia has been able to develop VOD servers and DVB to IP gateways that are more compact, cheaper and quicker to deploy.
Created in 2003 by members of VideoLAN VLC mediaplayer team, Anevia is a French firm whose main investor is CDC Entreprises Innovation. Anevia’s products have been deployed by worldwide telecom, xDSL and FTTH providers, broadcasters and system integrators.

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