Exterity First to Market with DVB-T2 TVgateways

Building IPTV specialist introduces two new products to support forthcoming terrestrial HD standard.

London, 17th March 2010: Exterity, the Building IPTV specialist, today announces the launch of the industry’s first DVB-T2 TVgateway products, designed to support the forthcoming DVB-T2 standard that will be used by broadcasters to deploy terrestrial HD TV channels.

With DVB-T2 now available in London, Manchester and Glasgow, the company has launched two products to support these standards, the Exterity DVB-T2 TVgateway and the Exterity DVB-T2 TVgateway with Conditional Access Module (CAM), which also enables organisations to decrypt encrypted channels. Both TVgateways are backwards compatible with standard existing DVB-T signals, ensuring that organisations can deploy them as part of their regular system upgrades and introduce the DVB-T2 standard once broadcasters have adopted the new standard.

Exterity has also introduced PID filtering across its entire AvediaStream TVgateway range, providing organisations with fine-grained control over audio, subtitles and other channel metadata. As a result, organisations will be able to create multiple in-house channels in different languages from the same DVB-T(2) stream or eliminate extra data traffic such as unnecessary languages or subtitles from their networks as and when required.

"The DVB-T2 standard is at the cutting edge of broadcast technology with broadcasters such as the BBC leading the development of this standard," says Colin Farquhar, CEO of Exterity. “As such, Exterity is proud to be the first company to introduce a range of TVgateways that will support this new terrestrial HD standard. Users are becoming ever more demanding regarding the quality of the viewing experience they expect and the Exterity DVB-T2 TVgateways will help orgnanisations, whether they are in the hospitality, education, healthcare or corporate sectors, meet these increasing demands.

"The introduction of PID filtering across our entire TVgateway range of products will also give our customers unprecedented control of the services they deliver to users. Not only will they be able to tailor their own channels, but they’ll also be able to eliminate unnecessary data from their networks, ensuring that they meet the ever-increasing expectations of customers whilst reducing overall costs."

To view the Exterity product suite in action, or to discuss the company’s new DVB-T2 TVgateways, please visit stand 27 at IPTV World Forum 2010, Olympia, London, 23rd-25th March 2010.

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For more information, please contact:
Steve Douthwaite / Kate Hyslop / Emma Bridgeman
Rocket Communications
+44 (0)8453 707 024
exterity@rocketcomms.net


About Exterity
Exterity Limited, the building IPTV specialist, has been delivering enterprise-class building IPTV solutions since 2001, and today its products are in use in 30 countries by some of the world’s best-known corporations.  Exterity products enable organizations to distribute broadcast-quality digital TV and video over building or campus IP networks (LANs) to a virtually unlimited number of users, with centralized management, configuration, and control. Unlike traditional analogue systems, Exterity systems can support an unlimited number of channels, and picture quality is unaffected by the addition of displays or users. Based on industry standards, Exterity products integrate easily with other solutions such as digital signage, hotel property management systems, patient information systems, and others.

Exterity is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.