LAS VEGAS, Jan. 3 -- Vidiom Systems Corporation, a leading provider of technology solutions to the cable and consumer electronics industries, today announced that they have successfully ported their OCAP software to Broadcom Corporation's BCM7038 Platform and will be demonstrating a variety of applications at this year's CES. Vidiom will be demonstrating their Program Guide (vGuide), Application Launcher, News Ticker (vTicker) and on the BCM97038 reference platform in the Broadcom booth South Hall 4/35781 at CES 2006.
"It is very satisfying to see the Vidiom OCAP software stack reach another significant milestone, the port to a key chip supplier to set-top suppliers and the Cable industry," said Timothy Wahlers, President/CEO of Vidiom Systems.
Daniel A. Marotta, Senior Vice President & General Manager, of Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group said, "Our silicon customers are very excited to see Vidiom's OCAP middleware running on our platform. We expect that this is the first of several ports to our platforms."
OCAP, part of the OpenCable initiative created by CableLabs, has been adopted as a standard by the SCTE and other standards organizations. The goals of the OpenCable initiative are to provide a unified, open standard that allows programmers to deploy interactive services over multiple cable networks, enable supplier competition, and create a retail market for digital cable receivers.
About Vidiom Systems
Vidiom Systems Corporation is an established leader in providing innovative iTV solutions. Our expertise includes software design and engineering, network migration and deployment, application development and productization, technical documentation, testing, and technical training. Vidiom is the leading provider of OCAP solutions to the cable and consumer electronics industries and has been involved in every stage of the evolution of OCAP from assisting in the design and development of the specification, to building the OCAP implementation for the OCAP Development, LLC, to designing and building the first application development tools. Founded in 1996, Vidiom Systems is a privately held corporation with headquarters near Boulder, Colorado, and additional engineering offices in Portland, Oregon, and Des Moines, Iowa. For more information about our products and services please visit our web site at http://www.vidiom.com.
Contact
Vidiom Systems Corporation
10901 W. 120th Ave, Suite 230
Broomfield, CO 80021
Michael D. Malcy
303-604-0800, x136
mmalcy@vidiom.com
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