Middleware and Operating System (OS) News

iWedia to integrate DVB and Android software with Ericsson Mediaroom Reach
Sep 12, 2014 – iWedia has announced that it has integrated its Comedia DVB software and its ANDROID4TV framework with the Ericsson Mediaroom Reach platform and set top box application.
News categories: iWedia, Ericsson, Hans-Jürgen Désor, Roz Ho, Android TV, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Worldwide

RT-RK joins the Frog by Wyplay program
Sep 12, 2014 – RT-RK has announced that it has joined the Frog Initiative and has been selected as an engineering scaling partner by Wyplay, creator of software solutions for leading pay-TV operators.
News categories: RT-RK, Wyplay, Jacques Bourgninaud, Nikola Teslić, Digital TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Worldwide

TELE System Communications selects iWedia software for MStar-based STB
Sep 11, 2014 – iWedia has announced that TELE System has selected iWedia's Linux-based Teatro-3.0 software solution for a hybrid STB based on MStar's K2 System-on-Chip. The solution will be on show at IBC 2014.
News categories: iWedia, MStar Semi, SungHoon Kim, Digital TV, IBCShow, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Taiwan, Worldwide

iWedia provides Linux-based H.264 STB software for ST's Liege chipsets
Sep 11, 2014 – iWedia has announced that it is offering Linux-based Teatro-3.0 STB software for STMicroelectronics’ Liege family of chipsets (STiH2xx) for connected H.264 STBs, and that it will be giving away a box manufactured by RT-RK for evaluation.
News categories: iWedia, STMicroelectronics, RT-RK, Hans-Jürgen Désor, Nikola Teslić, Digital TV, IBCShow, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Worldwide

Croatia's Optima Telekom chooses end-to-end solution from SmartLabs
Sep 11, 2014 – SmartLabs has announced that, in partnership with Optima Telekom, it has upgraded Optima's OptiTV service with an end-to-end SmartLabs Interactive TV Solution. More than 20 companies took part in the Optima Telekom tender process.
News categories: SmartLabs, Optima Telekom, Mikhail Grachev, Content Distribution, Croatia, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box

Ericsson introduces MediaFirst end-to-end cloud-based TV platform
Sep 11, 2014 – Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has introduced Ericsson MediaFirst, an end-to-end cloud-based platform that embraces all content sources and delivery networks, that is currently in trials with a targeted set of operators.
News categories: Ericsson, Per Borgklint, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Worldwide

KAON and SeaChange demonstrate RDK-based DOCSIS3.0 cable gateway STB at IBC
Sep 11, 2014 – KAONMEDIA (KOSDAQ : KAON MEDIA) has announced that it will demonstrate during IBC2014 its RDK-based DOCSIS3.0 Cable Gateway Set-top Box with integrated SeaChange Nucleus video gateway software.
News categories: KAON, SeaChange, Hwa-Seop Lim, Shiva Patibanda, Cable TV, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Gateway, IBCShow, RDK, Worldwide

Wyplay and Sigma Designs announce joint IPTV/OTT client reference design
Sep 11, 2014 – Wyplay and Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM) have lifted the veil on the turnkey integration of the open-source Frog by Wyplay set-top-box middleware with Sigma's HEVC 4k-capable SMP875x family of system-on-chip ARM® processors.
News categories: Wyplay, Sigma Designs, Mustafa Ozgen, Jacques Bourgninaud, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming, Worldwide

Telefónica selects KAON as partner for TV service
Sep 11, 2014 – KAONMEDIA (KOSDAQ:KAON MEDIA) has announced that Telefónica has selected KAON as official partner for its TV business. Since July 2014, KAON has started to supply DTH set-top boxes to Telefónica Chile.
News categories: KAON, Telefónica, Javier Lucendo, Brazil, Chile, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IBCShow, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box