Ant Plc : Skyviia selects ANT Galio HbbTV Platform
02/21/2012 | 05:51am
21 February 2012
ANT, an established provider of software and services for
the delivery of digital TV, today announced that Skyviia
Corporation has licensed the ANT Galio HbbTV Platform and
core TV applications. Skyviia will integrate ANT's software
into its new range of system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for
the fast growing European HbbTV market.
Based in Taiwan, Skyviia is a market pioneer in SoC
solutions for innovative digital multimedia products. Its
deep semiconductor experience combined with ANT's turnkey
HbbTV offering, will reduce both costs and development time
for Skyviia customers.
Skyviia will integrate the ANT Galio HbbTV Platform onto
two new Android based HbbTV product lines. The SV8860 range
will deliver a cost-effective single tuner solution using
Android 2.2. The SV8870 product line will provide a
high-end solution supporting multiple tuners using Android
4.0. Both product ranges will support HbbTV broadcast
services along with regional, niche applications.
Brian Sung, Executive Vice President, at Skyviia
Corporation commented: "ANT's HbbTV deployment record with
a variety of device manufacturers and its involvement
within the HbbTV consortium, highlights the strong level of
experience that it has in this market. By integrating the
ANT Galio HbbTV Platform onto our new HbbTV product ranges
we are able to support our customers in targeting this
growth market across Europe."
Sean Kim, VP & General Manager for Asia & Russian Markets
at ANT said: "We're pleased to be working with Skyviia on
its new Android-based HbbTV solutions. The flexibility of
the ANT Galio Platform enables Skyviia to offer its
customers a turnkey solution to deliver fast-to-market
products. And by opting for an Android based solution, it
is able to tap into the growing development market of
Android based TV applications."
By selecting the ANT Galio HbbTV Platform Skyviia will
benefit from ANT's considerable market experience as a
founding member of the HbbTV consortium and proven
deployment history. Since its public launch in 2009, HbbTV
has grown from the first deployments seen in Germany to a
wide range of services in France along with trials in
Spain, Austria and the Netherlands. Skyviia will target all
of these markets along with new HbbTV countries as they
adopt the standard.
About Skyviia
Skyviia Corporation (www.skyviia.com.tw) a multimedia IC
design company, is the market pioneer in System On Chip
(SOC) solutions for innovative digital multimedia products
including Digital Media Player, Hybrid IP-DTV Set Top Box
and Digital Signage. As Fujitsu Semiconductor's strategic
partner as well as the multimedia arm spin-off from
Skymedi, the world's market leader in storage controller IC
solutions, Skyviia leverages both companies' deep
semiconductor industry experience to develop competitive
solutions for Skyviia's worldwide customers. With core
expertise in video decoding, IP, DTV as well as embedded
software engineering in Linux and Android, Skyviia's
customer mass production records include global Tier-1
retail brands as well as LOEM's worldwide.
About ANT
ANT plc (www.antplc.com) develops and deploys embedded
software solutions and services for the TV industry. The
ANT Galio Suite, a browser, client and applications stack,
is an open standards based, flexible application &
middleware solution for a wide range of consumer TV
platforms. Using its experience of TV, ANT provides
powerful solutions to its customers by combining
consultancy and engineering services with its highly
capable platform products.
ANT enables media driven organisations to quickly create
and roll-out innovative and successful applications and TV
services. Its software is deployed in both operator and
free-to-air retail markets. By working with ANT, operators
are able to attract new subscribers, reduce churn and
increase average revenue per user. Those targeting the
retail market are able to differentiate their product range
to increase unit sales and generate ongoing revenue
opportunities.
ANT's software has been extensively deployed by customers
throughout the world including ADB, Amino, Bouygues
Telecom, Cisco, Chunghwa Telecom, Coship, HwaCom, France
Telecom, Humax, Pirelli, Sagemcom, Samsung, Technicolour,
Telecom Italia and YouSee.
Press Contacts
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