Leading IPTV manufacturer enhances Set-Top Box offering with established Multimedia home networking standard for in-home distribution of IPTV
Tel Aviv, Israel, Newark, CA - CopperGate Communications Ltd. a Challenge Fund II portfolio company, today announced that Entone Technologies Inc. has selected CopperGate's CG3010 chipset as a key component providing the home entertainment data networking features of En tone's high-definition (HD) MPEG-4 set-top boxes. Entone set-top boxes with embedded CopperGate chips will enable multi-room video and content sharing without the need for additional cabling.
"HomePNA 3 technology is rapidly becoming a standard feature of IP set-top boxes and gateway products," said Mark Evensen, VP of Product Development for Entone. "The capabilities provided by CopperGate's CopperStreamTM chipset enable us to develop high performance IPTV products that exceed our customer's performance and feature requirements while meeting the cost targets."
Coppergate's CopperStream chip sets, used in a variety of products such as set-top boxes, broadband residential gateways and ONTs from leading manufacturers, are the first to comply with the ITU G.9954 (HomePNA 3) home networking standard. CopperStream enables high-speed multimedia home networking of IP data over both coaxial cable and phone wires with more guaranteed QoS. HomePNA 3 technology is being deployed today by AT&T and other major telcos for the in-home distribution of triple play services.
"We are excited that Entone has chosen to add HomePNA 3 capability to this product line," said CopperGate's CEO Gabi Hilevitz. "Entone is a leading vendor of lPTV and broadband equipment, and we expect to see deployment of its HomePNA 3 enabled products worldwide."
About Entone Technologies
Entone is a leading provider of standards-based solutions that uniquely address two revolutionary developments in home entertainment: on-demand television and in-home multimedia networks. The company's proven technology enables content providers to reliably deliver a variety of personal television services, such as video-on-demand (VOD) and network personal video recording (nPVR). Entone's open and highly scalable solutions include a content ingest system, an intelligent asset manager, software-defined video servers, and residential IP video gateways .Established in 1999 by the team that deployed the world's first commercial VOD service ,Entone's solutions have been successfully installed at a number of the world's leading video service operators, such as Consolidated Communications, Lyse Tele, Pioneer Telephone, PCCW, and Telewest, just to name a few.
Entone is a privately held company with headquarters in California and global offices in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. The company is backed by leading venture capital firms and strategic investors such as BA Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Palomar Ventures, and TANDBERG Television. For more information about Entone Technologies, go to www.entone.com.
About CopperGate
CopperGate Communications develops chipsets designed to revolutionize home networking and networked entertainment. CopperGate is the leading provider of standards-based technology for distributing high speed IP data throughout the home over existing wires. CopperGate works with the world's leading system manufacturers to deliver the only products that operate over both phone lines and coax cables on a single network enabling consumers to conveniently connect equipment to broadband services throughout the home. CopperGate's products have been field tested and selected by leading service providers as key components for their triple play deployment solutions. Founded in 2000, CopperGate is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Newark, California, Taiwan and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.copper-gate.com.
