Espial and Avail Media Announce Strategic Sales Agreement

 Espial and Avail Media announced the signing of a sales agreement and strategic partnership. According to the terms of the deal, Avail Media will resell Espial's Evo® IPTV Service Platform to small and mid-sized operators in the North American market. The partners also intend to jointly develop and share revenues for a range of new and differentiating IPTV applications that will leverage the strengths of their respective technologies. In addition, Avail Media revealed that nine North American service provider customers have already selected Espial's Evo IPTV Service Platform as their middleware, pre-integrated with Avail Media's managed video content services.

"We are pleased with Espial's Evo IPTV Service Platform which is open, flexible and carrier-grade. The Evo architecture allows us to seamlessly and rapidly integrate our access technologies and premium content," said Ramu Potarazu, Chief Executive Officer of Avail Media. "This means our customers can accelerate their time-to-market for deploying differentiated IPTV services with a premium quality of experience."

Through the partnership, Espial and Avail Media bring to market an integrated, turnkey IPTV solution. This includes a large transport rights library of more than 220 channels from the major national programmers including ESPN, ABC, Disney, MTV Networks, Fox Networks, and many others. This premium content is delivered over a proven and fully integrated end-to-end infrastructure which is powered by the Espial Evo IPTV Service Platform.

"The compelling value proposition of the turnkey solution made it an easy choice for us. The Avail Media-Espial pre-integrated solution allows us to deploy our IPTV service quickly and effectively," said Mike Woods, Prime Time Communications, VP of Operations. "With Avail Media's extensive library of premium content and the sleek user interface enabled by Evo, we've enjoyed rapid customer uptake with a superior service. We are assured that our subscribers have access to the content they want over a robust, carrier-grade infrastructure."

Espial's flagship Evo IPTV Service Platform, which includes the carrier-grade Evo Server, fast and intuitive Evo Client middleware, standards-based and extensible Evo Future-Proof FrameworkT, and various applications including Evo EPG, Evo VOD, Evo Browser, and Evo DVR, was designed as a better performing, more modular, scalable, and cost-effective alternative to other more monolithic solutions on the market today.

"Avail Media's decision to license the Evo IPTV Service Platform and become our strategic reseller targeting small and mid-size service providers will accelerate adoption of IPTV in the US market," said Dave Williamson, Espial Vice President of Sales. "The combination of Avail Media's extensive set of transport rights to premium SD, HD and audio channels with their proven capability to deploy and manage the service delivery infrastructure for an operator makes this an exciting partnership."


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