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Time Broadband shakes hand with Amino for IPTV

Time Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd (TBSPL), an IPTV service provider in India and UK based Amino Communications Ltd, an IPTV platform supplier have recently joined hands to manufacture AmiNET125 H.264 AVC (MPEG-4, Part 10) compliant Set-Top Boxes for the Indian market through Time Broadband’s overseas associate company, Dimensions Broadband UK. The contract mandates a fixed licensing fee and on-going royalty payments to Amino.

With the help of middleware provided by Kasenna of USA which is a product with open architecture, Time Broadband will be able to execute mass deployments of its “MY TIME” IPTV package. Time Broadband has selected USA based Verimatrix as their content protection provider which will offer session based watermarking to enable forensic tracking of piracy.

AmiNET125 is designed on the “Da Vinci” SOC chip from Texas Instruments. Amino will provide IPTV software and the hardware design for Set-Top boxes.

“Set Top boxes play a very critical role in empowering the customers with the right to choose what they desire to see in the IPTV business,” says Sujata Dev, Managing Director & CEO, TBSPL. Time Broadband is planning to take this business to customers across Indian Subcontinent, Middle East and parts of East Africa.

Dev further adds, “This deal will allow us to target multiple telecom operators with the consumer base of over 60 million; the main objective is to maximise IPTV penetration across homes.”

This deal covers a significant licensing contract for which Amino has already been paid. The agreement is for the licensing of AmiNET125 STBs design and Amino’s IntAct IPTV software stack for manufacture and sale of STBs in the Indian sub-continent and Middle-East markets. In addition to the initial licensing fees, Amino will also get royalties for locally manufactured STBs and software.