Entone Technologies, a leading provider of personal video content delivery solutions, is set to take part in two European industry events in May that will provide an extension of company’s rapidly growing presence in the European video-on-demand (VOD) and home networking markets.

On Wednesday, 11th of May, CEO Steve McKay will deliver a keynote address at the Mediacast Convergence Hub Conference in London. Steve’s keynote, entitled “Successful Business Models for Delivering Effective Personal TV” will explore successful service models around the world for launching personal television services such as VOD, PVR, and nPVR, and how these services increasingly need to support networked homes and mobile consumers.

Simultaneously in Amsterdam, Entone is exhibiting and presenting at the Telecom Video Europe conference. Steve McKay will examine two over-riding trends that are driving revolutionary change in home entertainment: on-demand television and home networking. He will look at what happens when these two trends collide and the implications for both video service operators and technology enablers.

At the same conference, in booth #22, Entone will demonstrate an end-to-end IPTV system featuring its StreamLiner network video recorder (NVR), the industry’s most scalable VOD architecture based on open hardware, and its Hydra IP video gateway. The Hydra IP video gateway supports up to three (3) simultaneous video streams from a single CPE device and uses a home’s existing coax cabling for in-home video distribution. This approach can reduce the per-home CPE costs by up to 70%.

"Entone’s business activities in Europe are off to a great start in 2005, with several significant deployments already this year," says Steve McKay, CEO of Entone Technologies. "Our StreamLiner VOD platform has been deployed with dozens of operators around the world in the last year alone, and we are excited to show our Hydra IP video gateway for the first time in Europe at the Telecom Video Europe conference."

Entone’s StreamLiner NVR software architecture turns high volume, off-the-shelf servers into specialized, high-performance video servers. StreamLiner produces the industry’s highest stream density and provides extreme deployment flexibility, infinite scalability, and better economics than any other solution in the market.

"We are experiencing a tremendous interest in our open standards-based VOD solutions and see clear signs that 2005 will see VOD take-off in Europe as IPTV operators deploy VOD as a key service differentiator and revenue generator," adds Mark Rooney, EMEA Director of Entone Technologies. "One of our major strengths is that our open systems approach means that our customers can choose cost-efficient COTS server technology while still benefiting from our industry leading performance metrics. This means that we can uniquely provide powerful and cost effective VOD systems for all operators, whatever their size and business models. In addition, because we are highly scalable, our system can expand as an operator becomes increasingly successful."