ink Communications, formerly INK Communications & Design, announced that ANT plc has selected ink Communications to deliver an international public relations program.

ANT, based in Cambridge, England, is a market leading provider of embedded application software and support to the IPTV, hospitality and consumer electronics markets. ANT's unique combination of proven browser, digital-media management and user interface software enables device manufacturers and TV operators to present advanced digital-content and services to end users via branded interfaces.

ANT's products are integrated into a wide range of devices, including set-top boxes, TVs, DVD players and multimedia handhelds. ANT software has been deployed by customers throughout the world including Thomson, Pace, Philips, Amino, Samsung and Sagem. ANT was part of the first commercial IPTV deployment in 2000 with Kingston Communications, and today provides the client-side software solutions in many of the worlds leading IPTV deployments, including Chunghwa Telecom, France Telecom, Cyprus Telecom, Sasktel, RingGold, SureWest and Utopia, among others. ANT recently completed its admission to AIM, a London Stock Exchange regulated market.

"ink Communications is recognized as a leader in the IPTV market," said Andy Bovingdon, head of marketing, ANT. "This is an important time for ANT and the rapidly expanding IPTV market, so selecting the right international public relations team was critical. We look forward to working with ink on communicating our future successes."

ink Communications also works with middleware company, Orca Interactive and video server specialist, BitBand Technologies. Both companies provide technologies for leading IPTV deployments worldwide including Atlas in India, iVISJON in Norway, Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan and Bezeq in Israel using Orca's middleware - and FastWeb in Italy, Canal Digital in Sweden, Atlas in India and Magnet Networks in Ireland using BitBand's video on-demand solution.