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Siemens Integrates Entone IPTV Set-Top Into SURPASS Home Entertainment Portfolio, Enabling Broadband Operators to Use Existing Home Coaxial Cabling

Posted on: Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 09:00 CST

Siemens Communications Inc. today announced the integration of Entone(R) Technology's Hydra IP Video Gateway set-top box as part of the Siemens SURPASS(R) Home Entertainment portfolio of Internet protocol television (IPTV) solutions. With Entone's set-top box, service providers can use existing coaxial wiring for video distribution within homes.

"The SURPASS Home Entertainment solution, coupled with Entone's set-top box technology, provides broadband operators with a way to help avoid many of the costs and complexities involved with set-top boxes that require Ethernet cabling," said Chris Coles, president and CEO of IPTV middleware leader Myrio Corp., a Siemens company. "This is another example of how the standards-based SURPASS Home Entertainment solution helps enable service providers to choose the industry's desirable IPTV hardware and applications such as digital TV, pay-per-view, video on demand, personal video recording, Web access and much more."

The Entone Hydra set-top box also enables line sharing for simultaneous viewing and Internet access. The Hydra box supports up to three simultaneous video streams over a single digital subscriber line (DSL), fiber to the home (FTTH) or Ethernet connection. The single box also supports high-speed data and telephone features, such as Caller ID. Furthermore, the unit provides a RF remote allowing channel changing and control of the set top box throughout the home.

Launched in 2004, the Myrio(R) Interactive Development Kit (iDK) facilitates the integration of the Myrio IPTV middleware platform with set-top boxes and other consumer electronic devices, making the SURPASS Home Entertainment solution scalable for broadband operators deploying commercial video services to digital TV subscribers. In addition to supporting Entone, Siemens also supports set-top boxes from leading vendors such as Amino Communications and Thomson.

The Siemens(R) SURPASS Home Entertainment portfolio's standards-based Java client provides portability across different CPU and Operating System combinations, helping operators reduce time to market with new IPTV services. With APIs to many IPTV applications, set-top box vendors can give operators fast, intuitive control over services and options.

User-friendly IPTV gateways and smart home solutions are key components of the Siemens LifeWorks(TM) philosophy, a vision for anytime and anywhere digital media delivery without barriers. The SURPASS Home Entertainment portfolio is the IPTV solution of choice for more that 75 U.S. regional operators as well as many more worldwide. Globally, Siemens IPTV contracts now cover more than 38 million broadband lines.

About SURPASS Home Entertainment

Siemens makes Internet protocol television (IPTV) services a reality today - throughout the world - with industry-leading processes, solutions and knowledge of broadband network infrastructures. Built on an open standards-based architecture, the Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment solution provides rich user experiences, efficient back-office management tools and the building blocks for complete convergence of entertainment, communication and smart home solutions - the Siemens LifeWorks vision.

About Siemens

Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $96 billion in fiscal 2005. Founded nearly 160 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas Medical, Power, Automation and Control, Transportation, Information and Communications, Lighting, Building Technologies, Water Technologies and Services and Home Appliances. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City, Siemens in the USA has sales of $18.8 billion and employs approximately 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Thirteen of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 460,000 people in 192 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com

About Siemens Communications Inc.

Siemens Communications Inc. offers its customers a broad portfolio of communication products and services and is a leader in convergent technologies, products and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. The company's portfolio ranges from devices for end users to complex network infrastructures and complementary services for enterprises, carriers and service providers. Siemens Communications Inc. is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla. For more information, visit www.usa.siemens.com/communications

Note: Siemens, SURPASS, LifeWorks and Myrio are trademarks or registered trademarks of Siemens AG, its subsidiaries or affiliates. All other company, brand, product and service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

This release contains forward-looking statements based on beliefs of Siemens management. The words "anticipate,""believe,""estimate,""forecast,""expect,""intend,""plan,""should," and "project" are used to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results to be materially different, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and interest rates, introduction of competing products, lack of acceptance of new products or services and changes in business strategy. Actual results may vary materially from those projected here. Siemens does not intend or assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Source: Business Wire

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