24th Oct 2006 14:00
Stratacache today announced that it has integrated its ActiVia forMedia digital signage software on Amino set-top boxes (STBs), enablingthe use of low-cost Amino devices as media players in digital signagenetworks. With their small form factors and plug-and-play deployment,Amino STBs make it easy for retailers and other organizations toestablish robust, fully-managed and cost effective digital signagenetworks to tens of thousands of locations. ActiVia for Media allowscompanies to schedule, manage and distribute digital signage contentto as many as 100,000 media players from a central server cluster. £ ActiVia for Media provides centralized configuration, management,monitoring, content scheduling, distribution, playlist control, andreporting for digital signage networks. With proven Amino STBs nowintegrated with ActiVia for Media client software, distributedenterprises can easily create digital signage networks thatincorporate reliable and cost-effective content distribution with fulledge device management. The new Amino-based solution is especiallyuseful for retailers, where low cost Amino flash or disk-based STBscan be used for both digital signage and corporate e-learningapplications. £ "Stratacache is a market leader in software for digital signagenetworks, and our STBs give retailers and other organizations aneasily deployable solution for distributed locations," said RoyKirsopp, VP & General Manager of Amino Communications. "With ActiViafor Media built in, Amino STBs become the easiest and mostcost-effective way to power digital signage in stores or branches." £ The AmiNET range of STBs represents a more compact solution fordriving digital signage displays in branches. Rather than dealing withservers or PCs, retailers can deliver digital signage content bysimply connecting an Amino STBs to the store network. £ "This solution shatters the cost barrier for simple retail digitalsigange and it brings digital signage networks within reach forretailers who haven't been able to implement them before," said ChrisRiegel, CEO of Stratacache. "By adding the ActiVia for Media client toAmino STBs, we are creating a new digital signage solution that costsless and is far easier to deploy than traditional PC or server basedsolutions." £ ActiVia for Media 3.0 for Amino STBs ships October 30. £ About Amino £ Amino Communications (www.aminocom.com) supplies the AmiNET(TM)series of set-top boxes, renowned for their low-cost and reliability.The AmiNET range materially reduces service operators' capitalexpenditure, whilst offering the full range of specification required;MPEG2 and MPEG4 encoding standards, standard and high definition TV,personal video recording and home networking. The high performancecoupled with the innovative design of Amino's set-top boxes, havebrought the series industry accolades and the company a leadingposition within the IPTV market. £ The AmiNET series of IPTV set-top boxes has been used by more than500 customers in commercial deployments and trials in over 50countries worldwide. The set-top boxes have also been sampled byanother additional 700 customers. Amino Communications' principalcustomers are telecommunications, broadcast and hospitality serviceoperators. Generally, AmiNET products are supplied with the IntAct(TM)IPTV software stack pre-loaded. £ Amino Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of AminoTechnologies plc. listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM, symbol AMO.Amino is based near Cambridge, UK, and has offices in Atlanta Georgiaand Hong Kong. £ About Stratacache £ Stratacache is the world leader in efficient, scalable and costeffective content distribution, digital media presentation andapplication acceleration solutions for highly distributed, networkconnected organizations. Serving Global 2000 customers and mid-tierorganizations in the retail, finance, service, manufacturing andgovernment markets worldwide, Stratacache's products transparentlysolve large-scale content distribution and application performancechallenges while immediately providing tangible return-on-investmentand dramatically improved user satisfaction. Stratacache is based inDayton, Ohio USA and is privately held. For more information pleasevisit www.stratacache.com or e-mail [email protected] Copyright Business Wire 2006Related Shares:
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