Mirifice signs up Solekai Systems Corporation as a VAR.

Solekai Systems Corporation, specialists in digital video product design, quality assurance and testing will resell MiriATE®, the leading set-top box test and control platform.

26 March 2009 – Mirifice Ltd is pleased to announce that it has formalized its relationship with Solekai Systems Corporation through a Master Value Added Reseller Agreement.

Solekai will re-sell MiriATE to new and existing customers in the Americas.  This allows broadcast service providers, applications developers and hardware manufacturers to buy MiriATE through a local channel with local support services.  Solekai’s expertise in digital video technologies, quality assurance and testing enables them to also provide value added services around the MiriATE product.

Dr. Niall Buckingham, Managing Director, MiriATE product at Mirifice, says, “I am delighted to be working with Solekai and proud that they will resell our MiriATE product.  Solekai have the skills and relationships in the broadcast industry to ensure that their customers get the maximum value from our MiriATE platform.”

“With more and more functionality present in set-top boxes, the timing is ideal to be able to offer clients additional tools for faster and better testing methodologies” said Martin Caniff, President and Founder of Solekai Systems.  “MiriATE is an excellent complement to our services and we are pleased to be able to offer it to our clients.”

MiriATE provides the ability to automatically drive large numbers of STBs and iDTVs through suites of stringent tests, including realistic endurance testing.   Uniquely, MiriATE offers advanced video analysis, such as motion detection, region comparison and optical character recognition (OCR); these are critical in automating the majority of tests, as they replace the need for manual recognition and verification.  No other product can automate this type of testing or provide a comparable reduction in testing man hours.

Niall Buckingham adds “MiriATE is used both by manufacturers during development and integration of set-top boxes and by network operators for acceptance and regression testing. The resulting improvement in the reliability of both the set-top box and the services reduces the total cost of ownership for the operator. “

Deployment of MiriATE starts off with a 16 STB solution and, due to the system’s scalability; this can increase in increments of 16 to very large systems of 384 boxes or more.

Visit Solekai at the NAB Show in Las Vegas from 20 to 23 April 2009.  Contact Dan Sweeney, Solekai's VP Sales +1.760.809.4861 or by email [email protected] to arrange a MiriATE demonstration during NAB.