Pace Micro Technology Americas, a dedicated
developer of digital home gateway technology, has signed the industry's largest
order for IPTV with Myrio Corporation. Under the terms of this agreement, Myrio
has agreed to purchase 85,000 home gateways. The initial order will be for 10,000
DSL4000s over the next 12 months. The remaining volume will be delivered during
the subsequent 18-months and will include Pace's next generation home gateway.
Pace's next generation gateway will support low bit-rate video streams and allow
operators to deploy a wider range of revenue-generating services, such as music-on-demand,
personal video recording, and video telephony. Additionally, Myrio and Pace
announced integration of Myrio's enabling software technology, Myriotm Interactive,
with Pace's DSL4000 digital home gateway to deliver interactive TV services
over IP-based networks.
With this integration, Myrio will offer its customers, network operators, what
it describes as an extremely cost-effective set-top-box platform for delivery
of digital TV, entertainment-on-demand and high-speed Internet access over residential
DSL and FTTH connections. Myrio and Pace have also agreed to collaborate on
future IP-based interactive TV solutions that support fibre to the home and
wireless infrastructures.
The DSL4000 set-top box features high quality MPEG-2 decoding, an Ethernet interface
and an integrated 'TV-friendly' Web browser. The television services are delivered
over IP (Internet Protocol) from a variety of industry standard video encoder
and video server platforms.
