Smart TV platform creator joins forces with chipsets vendors, Set-top-boxes manufacturers and OTT solution providers to enable operators and broadcasters ride quickly the smart TV wave and capture market share with a revolutionary multi-screen platform
Yarkona, Israel and Amsterdam, the Netherlands - 6th Sept 2012: Comigo, the creator of the most advanced multi-screen smart TV platform, with revolutionary social interactive capabilities, today announced a series of strategic partnerships.
As part of Comigo’s strategy to bring its ground-breaking solution to OTT operators, Comigo is collaborating with Marvell (NSDQ: MRVL), a leading fabless semiconductor company, that provides original design manufacturers (ODMs) with the ability to empower their smart STBs with the Comigo smart TV software. Marvell’s ARMADA® 1500 based platform is designed to deliver superior 3D video, impressively rich audio, striking 3D graphics and TV-friendly web content.
Comigo’s innovative smart TV platform can be integrated easily to the operator’s video headend, operational support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS), featuring personalized and social viewing experience on multiple screens. Alternatively, Comigo with its partners’ solutions can offer operators and broadcasters an integrated end-to-end solution, including content preparation, management and delivery, as well as subscriber management, devices monitoring and control, account management and billing.
“It’s a great time to be part of the smart TV market and the race is on to capture market share with innovative and competitive solutions that provide brilliant TV experience on multiple screens,” commented Dov Moran, Founder and CEO, Comigo. “We’ve been working with our partners to strengthen Comigo’s smart TV platform and assist operators and broadcasters to gain competitive advantage by offering an integrated solution in a short time to market at very low investment and at the same time opening new type of revenue opportunities.”
Comigo platform is already integrated with partners’ solutions which specialize in content ingestion, management and delivery of live channels, VOD and time shifted TV. These partners include CastUP, RayV and Live Asia TV.
Comigo solution supports full device management abilities by implementing the TR-69 standard (and its derivatives) backed by Friendly-Technologies powerful TR-069 ACS solution. This allows operators to remotely control and monitor Comigo devices at customer premises, gain higher customer satisfaction and improve the quality of service while reducing operational costs.
Comigo applications and smart Set-Top-Box enable operators and broadcasters to deliver protected content using Comigo platform, thanks to the implementation of PlayReady by Discretix, which provides a security platform that are field proven and future-proof.
Comigo has also partnered with Philips Home Control, a global leader in remote control technology, to build a custom made dual-sided remote for Comigo’s STB.
To enrich the user experience on TV, Comigo has integrated Playcast cloud gaming solution which delivers next-generation video games streaming as a Digital TV Service without the need for a console or downloads to OTT (over-the-top) subscribers.
With WiFi becoming the home networking technology of choice for IP-video streaming in the home, Comigo has partnered with Celeno, a provider of high performance Wi-Fi chips and software for reliable HD video home networking.
In order to enable Comigo Smart Set-top-box to use as means of control and monitoring the consumer’s home environment, Comigo and DSP Group have been jointly working towards a home automation (HA) and monitoring solution based on DECT Ultra Low Energy (ULE) technology, running on top of Comigo’s Set-Top-Box.
Upon request, Comigo will enable operators and broadcasters to accelerate video distribution, enabling smooth, buffering-free High Definition and Adaptive video streaming to any device, using Giraffic solution.
