Digital Utilities Ventures has selected
Amino Communications as best set top box manufacturer for its breakthrough IPTV delivery system. The New Last Mile uses an Internet based platform to deliver its TV programming. This means that Digital Utilities Ventures can deliver live programming of broadcast quality from anywhere in the world over the Internet directly:
- To TV sets without the aid of computers (IP ready) by simply piggybacking on existing broadband connections, and
- To cell phones worldwide via WIFI, Mobile Telephone Switching Office 3G networks, and the emerging next generation 4G WIMAX
- All using under 1 megabit of the Internet as the backbone to the television set and 150 kilobits to the cell phone
In effect, creating the first global "Virtual Cable Television Network".