Espial’s Evo IPTV Service Platform Drives Customization Options for mPhase IPTV Deployments
Broadband World Forum Europe, PARIS. October 11, 2006 – Espial® IPTV, a leading provider of IPTV middleware and applications, announced today that the modular, flexible and open architecture of its Evo platform has strengthened the ability of mPhase Technologies [OTCBB:XDSL] to offer a range of IPTV customization options with the mPhase TV+™ System.
mPhase’s TV+ System provides network operators with the ability to operate and manage advanced interactive video services over broadband access networks. With the TV+ System, operators can create a differentiated solution by leveraging Evo’s data-driven architecture to deliver rich, fully customizable applications on a small footprint set-top box. Evo’s open framework allows operators to manage and evolve their IPTV service offerings.
This integrated offering from Espial and mPhase provides operators with a flexible and open IPTV solution that is highly scalable yet able to be customized to their unique subscriber requirements. Evo provides an advanced set of IPTV applications and components such as Electronic Programming Guide (EPG), Video on Demand (VOD), Personalized Settings and Internet-On-TV. Evo also gives operators and integrators the ability to create an unlimited set of revenue-generating SkinTones™, custom IPTV interfaces with a unique look and feel.
“The mPhase TV+ System and Evo are an ideal combination for operators looking to cost-effectively develop a powerful, responsive and eye-catching IPTV service that can grow from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands of subscribers,” said Phil Thompson, Executive Vice President, Product Management, mPhase. “The combined Espial and mPhase strengths make this solution one of the most modular and scalable offerings in the industry. With an easy and short time-to-market implementation our diverse customer base, spanning from Ukraine to Egypt to US, enjoys the capability to customize the viewing experience for subscribers and stay ahead of their competition."
“This combination of advanced services from Espial and mPhase has created an intuitive subscriber experience that provides the best IPTV performance in the industry,” said Brian Mahony, Espial’s Vice President Marketing. “By designing Evo with an open architecture mPhase was able to quickly integrate and customize the TV+ system to deliver a completely scaleable and portable product to operators around the globe.”
Come to Booth #819 at Broadband World Forum Europe this week to learn more about the modular features that allow flexible, customizable and open IPTV solutions to be deployed.
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ABOUT ESPIAL IPTV (www.espial.com)
Espial provides IPTV middleware and applications that are fully skinnable, turbo-fast, and truly open. Espial’s Evo® IPTV service platform includes applications such as SkinTones®, Electronic Program Guide, Video on Demand, Content Portal, Games, Triple Play, and Web Browsing. Espial products have been integrated with or deployed by more than 100 vendors and operators including Siemens, Motorola, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Amino, Thomson, Philips, Tilgin, LodgeNet, OnCommand and S-Net Systems.
About mPhase Technologies, Inc.
mPhase Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: XDSL) develops and commercializes next-generation telecommunications and nanotechnology solutions, delivering novel systems to the marketplace that advance functionality and reduce costs. In telecommunications, the Company's mPhase TV+ System cost-effectively and reliably manages the delivery of television or video over broadband DSL, fiber or Ethernet access lines. mPhase also offers a line of innovative DSL component products designed to help service providers lower the provisioning and operating costs associated with DSL. More information is available at the mPhase Web site at www.mPhaseTech.com.
CONTACTS:
Espial:
Meredith Dundas, +1-705-657-2902
mdundas@espial.com
mPhase:
Sam Gronner, 201-592-7896
mediarelations@mphasetech.com
