Envivio and Opcion Cable Enter Into Agreement to Develop and Distribute MPEG-4 "Triple Play" Solution to Cable Operators Throughout Mexico
South San Francisco, Calif., October 17, 2002 - Envivio Inc, a leading provider of end-to-end broadcast and streaming solutions and Opcion Cable sa de cv, announced that they have entered into an agreement to create and distribute an end-to-end solution using Envivio’s MPEG-4 products to provide live and VOD programming to cable operators throughout Mexico.
As part of this agreement, Opcion Cable will use Envivio as their exclusive supplier of MPEG-4 products and services in their development of a hybrid cable television network referred to as the Triple Play. The Triple Play broadband services include television, telephony, and internet access and will allow consumers to experience e-commerce, interactive video-on-demand, educational programming, along with telephone services, and broadband internet access. The solution will be marketed through The Mexican Association of Public Networks (AMRED), a non-profit trade association, to its more than 200 members who make up the majority of Mexico’s cable television operators.
“By partnering with Opcion Cable and AMRED we have the opportunity to introduce our MPEG-4 solutions to the decision makers of Mexico’s cable industry and further extend the deployment of MPEG-4 throughout Mexico and the world,” said Julien Signes, president of Envivio.
A demonstration of the Triple Play solution is being showcased at AMRED’s annual conference in Cancun, Mexico October 16-18. Live programming supplied via satellite feeds from Mexico City and Cancun will be streamed to the local head end and distributed to IP-enabled set-top boxes running the EnvivioTV player.
“By integrating Envivio’s MPEG-4 products into our Triple Play solution, we offer cable operators a cost-effective way to reduce bandwidth and storage costs which will allow them to deliver more channels over the same bandwidth they are using today,” said Jose Gabriel Gutierrez of Opcion Cable. “In addition, we will be able to provide advanced entertainment services to subscribers that will bring additional revenue opportunities to the cable operators.”
About Envivio
Envivio is a leading provider of complete MPEG-4 solutions consisting of a rich set of integrated streaming media tools and systems: high performance audio and video, two-dimensional graphics and animation, providing a rich interactive user experience. The company has established itself as the most experienced creator of high-quality MPEG-4- solutions that enable broadcasters, network operators and content developers to build new revenue streams and utilize the efficiencies of delivering content to the full range of MPEG-4 capable devices. The Envivio Solution includes various components to create, encode, protect and distribute MPEG-4 content: the Envivio Encoding Station for offline encoding and protection of MPEG-4 audio and video, the Envivio Broadcast Studio for authoring complete MPEG-4 applications, the Envivio plug-in to the RealSystem Server, to distribute MPEG-4 content over the Web and broadcast networks, and the EnvivioTV™ plug-in to the RealOne Player, RealPlayer, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player to retrieve and playback MPEG-4 content. EnvivioTV™ is also being customized for various set-top box manufacturers.
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