AMO.L Regulatory News (AMO)

1 Dec 2006 12:52

IntAct Software Ltd ("IntAct"), an Amino Technologies plc company("Amino")(LSE:AMO) announces today that it has signed a licensingagreement with Wistron NeWeb Corp. ("WNC"), the subsidiary of Wistrongroup, which will allow WNC to bundle the IntAct IPTV solution acrossa range of Set-Top Boxes (STBs) from the mentioned company. These STBproducts will range from standard definition MPEG-2/4/H.264 to highdefinition DVB Hybrid and PVRs. £ For an undisclosed sum, WNC has the right to supply the latestadvanced IPTV software technology to customers across the Asia-Pacificregion and tier-1 telcos in European Union and North America markets.According to Mike Arden, Principal Analyst at ABI Research, AsiaPacific alone is poised to be the biggest market with an explosion ofIPTV services over the next few years and he also foresees thatsubscribers will rise from 2 million in 2005 to over 22 million by2011. £ Haydn Hsieh, CEO & President of WNC, commented, "Given the marketforecasts and potential for IPTV, we want to enter the IPTV marketquickly and in a big way. We need to find a software partner to giveus the time-to-market advantage we need and IntAct is our best option"He continued, "By licensing the IntAct IPTV solution, we can provideour customers with a proven solution that is already pre-integratedwith most of the popular Middleware, Conditional Access and VODservers on the market, reducing vastly the production time to revenues- a critical consideration in a highly competitive market". £ "The significance of this relationship is that operators can nowbuy STBs, fully integrated with software, directly from the factory",explained Bob Giddy, Amino's CEO. "In the past OEMs bought 'naked STBhardware' from the factory, added their software onto it, then sold itto the operator, which added time as well as middlemen and extra cost.The key difference is that WNC can now ship STBs loaded with fullypre-integrated IntAct solution directly from the end of the assemblyline to the operator". £ ABOUT INTACT SOFTWARE LIMITED £ IntAct Software Limited develops and licenses software andhardware technology for broadband connected devices and is awholly-owned subsidiary of the Amino Technologies plc group ofcompanies. Products include the IntAct(TM) IPTV software stack, andadvanced multi-standard video and audio decoder software. £ Use of the IntAct IPTV software stack provides IPTV serviceoperators with a standard unified platform for IPTV applications andmiddleware enabling operators to reduce capex costs by sourcinghardware from multiple IntAct compliant set-top box vendors, andreducing opex costs by relying on one company for the software stackto run on multiple hardware platforms. £ IntAct software products are licensed to IPTV service providersand manufacturers of IPTV set top boxes, and power the AmiNET range ofset-top box products from Amino Communications Limited. £ The IntAct IPTV software stack supports the widest range of IPTVindustry middleware and CA systems and has been ported to leadingset-top box architectures. It is used in over 50 countries worldwideby more than 600 companies in commercial deployments and trials.IntAct technology has also been sampled by another additional 800customers. £ To learn more about IntAct Software, visit: www.intactos.com £ About Wistron NeWeb Corporation £ Wistron NeWeb Corp. (WNC) is an industry leader in the design andmanufacturing of advanced wireless communication and networkingproducts. With strong R&D capabilities, WNC has consistentlyintroduced innovative products and solutions in the areas of DirectBroadcasting Satellite (Dish antenna/LNBF/Satellite radio/ HD radioreceiver/ Set-top box), Wireless Networking (WiFi phone/IEEE 802.11a/b/g/AP/Router/VDSL), Personal Communication (GSM/GPRS/PHS/ CDMA/Dualmode handsets) and Antenna Subsystems (Notebook, PC, DVB-T; DVB-H).WNC's mission is to offer its customers and partners superior wirelesscommunication products thru premium OEM/ODM design and manufacturingservices. In addition, WNC also provides world class logistics serviceand after-sales service worldwide. For more details, please visit:http://www.wneweb.com Copyright Business Wire 2006