Zignal Cloud, Industria's Disruptive Technology Innovation, Set to Radically Alter the IPTV Industry

Award-winning solution now offered as a hosted infrastructure, reducing complexity and investment for service providers

Industria, a leading IPTV solutions provider, today announced it will be offering its award-winning IPTV platform as a subscription-based service named Zignal Cloud.

Built on the Zignal digital entertainment delivery platform, Zignal Cloud lowers the total cost of ownership for service providers, provides predictability of costs, reduces technology risks and decreases time to market.

The Zignal Cloud is accessible through a host of APIs, where service providers are able to fully customize and integrate Zignal Cloud with their own solutions and TV offerings. Local media assets are managed within the back office environment of the Zignal Cloud, including both IP video streams and On-Demand video assets.

Taking the Market to the Next Level

Now service providers of any size can sign-up for Zignal Cloud and have a full carrier-grade IPTV Service Delivery Platform up-and-running for zero investment," says Gudjon Mar Gudjonsson, Industria's CEO. "This means we are greatly reducing the barriers to entry for new market entrants and easing the transition of existing operators. The Zignal Cloud initiative is based on our experience from the IPTV market, where we have learned that aggressive service providers are looking more and more towards outsourcing parts of their services infrastructure."

The Zignal Cloud offering from Industria simplifies the process for service providers of providing commercial TV over broadband offerings. Until now the industry has been characterized by cumbersome and complex processes in terms of getting up and running when it comes to offering carrier grade IPTV services. Zignal Cloud removes these barriers by offering a highly scalable infrastructure in a hosted environment.

Building on a Reputation of Innovation

Last year Industria was recognizes as one of 50 most innovative company in Europe in a market research study done for CNBC Business Magazine. The company was described by the panel of judges as being "potentially one of the biggest contributors to a European future of digital convergence and IPTV". Industria continues to live up to this reputation and is now offering its vast experience and pioneering technology platform to the marketplace with no need to install complex software solutions and with no up front cost for the service provider.

Zignal Cloud provides the server infrastructure for TV set-top boxes, PC, media centres and mobile devices. The consumer can experience rich media service using the Zignal running device, on TV set-top boxes or their media enabled mobile handsets. Services include Video on Demand, Pause live TV and Personal video Recording, to name a few.

The Zignal Cloud offering includes pre-integrated services and applications, from which service providers can choose, in order to add to their operational environment," says Thorsteinn Yngvi Gudmundsson, VP of Product Development at Industria. "This pay-as-you-grow model enables service providers to focus their resources on marketing, to increase pick-up rates.

Currently Zignal Cloud is available by invitation only, but service providers can apply to be included in the program from the Industria website, www.industria.com. Zignal Cloud will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2008.

About Industria

Industria’s mission is to make the TV viewing experience better for people. Zignal™ is Industria’s flagship product for realizing this mission. Zignal is an innovative software solution, which brings the full array of broadband TV services to the consumer. Through its company subsidiaries, Industria offers its customers project management and network services called Digital Living™, in order to build network infrastructure to achieve an advanced TV experience. Industria sells its products and services from the company online infrastructure to the global marketplace of service providers of all sizes. Customers are entertainment and telecommunication service providers, TV and cable operators, consumer electronics producers and real-estate developers. Industria was named by global monthly CNBC European Business as one of Europe’s Top 50 innovators in 2007 and was a winner of a 2006 Red Herring 100 Europe award. Industria, along with its customer FreeWire in the U.K., received the 2007 “best project by a newcomer” award by Global Telecoms Business, a Euromoney publication. For further information on Industria, visit www.industria.com.

 

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