Anevia and Smart Com announce IPTV ecosystem compliance at IPTV World Forum 2008

Anevia Live TV and VOD applications are now integrated with Smart Com BeeSmart middleware for the European Telco market

PARIS — Anevia, the French designer of the FLAMINGO DVB to IP gateways and the TOUCAN VOD/nPVR servers, and Smart Com d.o.o., middleware vendor, today announced an IPTV ecosystem compliance that aims to strengthen marketing and sales to European telecom operators and ISP of integrated solutions, featuring Smart Com’s IPTV middleware and Anevia’s live TV and VOD solutions.

This agreement highlights Anevia and Smart Com’s move to maximise the synergies between their flagship products for telecom operators and ISP in Europe:

• Smart Com’s advanced BeeSmart IPTV middleware provides new services and features that helps Service Providers to create and offer value added services, including VoD, nPVR, Pause TV, Catch Up TV and other;
• Anevia’s TOUCAN family servers of On-Demand applications such as VoD, nPVR, Pause TV, Catch Up TV or Start Over TV and FLAMINGO DVB to IP family of gateways for live channels streaming over IP.

« Rich experiences achieved in the past acting as a system integrator helped us to develop outstanding service delivery platform BeeSmart that offers innovative and advanced solutions to the IPTV service providers. With Anevia we are extending the list of compatible VOD vendors and are enabling IPTV service providers choice to pick best of breed components for its IPTV ecosystem, » said Miroslav Å travs, Smart Com’s CEO.

“For the last few years Smart Com and Anevia have both pioneered innovative, scalable and richly featured products. We were bound to join in a key partnership. Together we bring a further dimension to the IPTV world,” said Patrick Rabu, Anevia’s Sales Director.

Anevia and Smart Com will be demonstrating their new IPTV and VOD solutions in IPTV World Forum in London from 12 to 14 March 2008.