Adelphia to Deploy Beginning Summer 2004
PORTLAND, Ore., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- nCUBE, a proven supplier of
scalable VOD and digital advertising systems, and Digeo Inc., a leading
provider of media center software and services, announced an agreement to
integrate nCUBE's nABLE interactive management software and video server with
Digeo's Moxi(TM) software platform for deployment on Motorola's Broadband
Media Center (BMC) 9000 Series media centers.
Adelphia Communications Corporation, the nation's fifth-largest cable
television company, will trial the integrated solution in selected markets in
the greater Los Angeles region starting in Summer 2004.
"We are focused on delivering the most exciting and compelling digital
television experience possible which requires making VOD easy to promote, easy
to browse and easy to order," said Jim Billmaier, Chief Executive Officer of
Digeo. "We are very pleased to work with nCUBE, an industry leader in
providing a scalable, interoperable platform for VOD, to provide Adelphia
subscribers easy access to popular on-demand content."
"This agreement validates nCUBE's longstanding commitment to
interoperability and we are proud to partner with Digeo to further the
market," said Michael Pohl, president and CEO, nCUBE Corporation. "Bringing
advanced on-demand services to market requires an open, robust infrastructure
that can adapt to individual operator and market dynamics."
Moxi delivers consistent navigation features that provide viewers with
easy access to thousands of VOD titles in the same way as they access the rest
of their digital cable services. Throughout the Moxi Menu, VOD titles have
prominent multiple placements alongside live broadcast and show listings
making it easier for viewers to find titles and initiate the purchase process.
nCUBE's VOD solution, which includes a scalable hardware platform and an
experienced project management team, utilizes an open, interoperable
architectural design to deliver on-demand services. nCUBE's video server
provides separable storage and delivery capabilities that grow with consumer
demand and that eliminate duplicated content and excess storage costs. nABLE
is an on-demand management system built with Web services technologies that
delivers a complete set of VOD business management and technical operations
tools, including real-time and historical intelligence reports.
About nCUBE:
nCUBE Corporation is a provider of digital advertising systems and
on-demand solutions for cable operators and telecommunications network
providers worldwide.
The company's digital advertising system provides a deployed and proven
bridge to an all-digital and high definition platform. Its single-server
solution fits seamlessly into current operations and analog infrastructures,
offering a smooth migration to the latest digital television technology.
nCUBE's flexible solution, including its application and server neutral
nABLE back office software management tools, provides operators with ease of
operation in deploying and integrating their on-demand service. The company's
scalable on-demand video server delivers up to 120,000 simultaneous streams
from a single site, without content duplication or hidden storage costs,
meeting the demands of VOD today and the future content needs of everything-
on-demand (EOD).
The company is based in Beaverton, Ore. For more information:
http://www.ncube.com.
About Digeo, Inc.
Digeo, Inc., provides media center software and services that inspire
consumer loyalty, generate new incremental revenue, and position cable as the
leading source for home entertainment.
The Moxi(TM) platform from Digeo powers a new generation of media centers
through which cable operators can deliver high-revenue services and
applications-such as digital video recording (DVR), high-definition TV, and
on-demand and pay-per-view content-to the whole home at a competitive cost per
TV. The multi-TV architecture and breakthrough user interface of the Moxi
platform provide all Moxi applications including DVR, DVD, information on
demand, jukebox, photos, games, and more from any cable access point in the
home using existing wiring. Digeo has also developed an innovative chipset
that integrates essential media-center functionality and can substantially
reduce future set-top box production costs.
Additionally, Digeo offers the Digeo(TM) iTV service to over one million
subscribers, which is the most widely deployed cable iTV service in North
America. With Digeo iTV, cable operators can increase the value of their
existing digital set-tops by offering field-tested services that have
demonstrated increased customer satisfaction and churn reduction, and
effective cross-selling of video-on-demand (VOD) and pay-per-view (PPV)
offerings.
Moxi(TM) Media Center customers include Comcast, Charter and Adelphia.
Digeo is primarily backed by Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. The company has offices
in Kirkland, Wash., Palo Alto, Calif. and Longmont, Colo. For more
information, please visit http://www.digeo.com.
NOTE: Digeo and Moxi are trademarks of Digeo, Inc. All other product or
service names are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE nCUBE Corporation
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Related links:
http://www.ncube.com
CONTACT:
Beth Mayer of JLM Partners for nCUBE
Corporation, +1-206-381-3600, or beth@jlmpartners.com; or Diane
Schreiber, +1-415-321-1897, or diane@sparkpr.com; or Steve Kerns,
+1-415-321-1891, or steve@sparkpr.com, both of Sparkpr, for Digeo
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