KEISENSE AND DIVINET PARTNER TO JOINTLY DELIVER INTERACTIVE TV SERVICES
HARTFORD CT, USA and PUNE INDIA, July 06, 2009 - DiviNet, a leading provider of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) solutions, and Keisense, an innovative provider of user interface technologies for consumer electronic devices, today announced the successful integration of Keisense's ConnecTiVi (r) into DiviNet's IPTV network. The combined solution will enable a range of interactive services over legacy television sets.
DiviNet Access Technologies Limited provides an End-to End IPTV solution. A consortium, of DiviNet, WICE Net and MKCL, is providing IPTV services on the BSNL's (the world's 7th largest telecom company) Broadband network, and are providing IPTV services in 21 cities covering 5 states in India.
WICE Net Limited, the operations partner of DiviNet, has also deployed IPTV solution in Ghana, on Vodafone Ghana network.
DiviNet's solution now includes Keisense's user interface platform to enable the service provider to develop and deploy powerful interactive applications. Currently the solution is available on WiceBox, DiviNet's IPTV set top platform. In the future, the framework will support other Cable TV and DTH platforms as well.
"We look forward to working together with WICE Net to drive new interactive applications to the big screen" says Santosh Sharan, President and CEO, Keisense. "The integrated platform takes advantage of WICE Net's widely-deployed IPTV footprint and opens up an enormous market for developers of social networking and messaging applications."
DiviNet and Keisense are planning to introduce community chat and messaging services around popular TV shows as a pilot service to WICE Net's existing customer base. In addition, the companies are jointly designing new search and interactive reality TV applications that will generate new revenue streams for IPTV service providers and cable operators.
"Interactive TV services are true market differentiators in this dynamic market," notes P R Eknath, MD / CTO, DiviNet Access Technologies. "The combined DiviNet-Keisense solution overcomes the hurdles of text-driven interaction with legacy TV systems and opens the door to many new applications. Keisense's predictive user interface provides an intuitive and enjoyable way for users to use new applications."
For more information about Keisense ConnecTiVi Framework, please visit the Keisense Solutions page.
About KEISENSE
Keisense provides interactive solutions and applications to enhance the user experience on TV, mobile, gaming, computing and kiosk devices. With its flagship product PriText, Keisense enables intuitive predictive text input on a wide range of popular remote controls for TV and set top boxes. Keisense's patented technologies break through the critical barrier that prevents true interactive TV, by letting users instantly send messages or chat via their own TV remote control, popular game console remote, or pointing devices, enabling novel social networking use cases and opening up new advertising and ecommerce opportunities. On mobile/portable devices, Keisense allows for unrivalled error tolerance, enabling rapid and effective text input. Keisense is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, with offices in Boston and the Silicon Valley area.
For more information, please visit www.keisense.com
About DiviNet
DiviNet Access Technologies Limited has developed an End-to- End IPTV solutions and deploys them through its associate company WICE Net. DiviNet's solution comprises of complete NOC & Customer Premises Equipment. Multicast streaming, Encoding, VOD streaming & Storage, Middleware, DRM, CRM, Billing interfaces and various application frameworks have been developed under one roof. This provides an immense value for service providers to integrate various applications smoothly. Such homogeneous networks enable ease of customisation & up-gradation as well.
For more information, please visit www.divinetaccess.com
About WICENet:
WICE Net is a Value Added Service provider over telecom broadband platform. WICE Net vision is to be the Window for Information, Communication and Entertainment (and Education) using the cutting edge technologies in the domains of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), Internet Broad-Band, Video on Demand (VOD), Video Telephony, Distance Education via Virtual Class rooms, Single and Multi-player Computer/TV Games and many more value added services. Currently, WICE Net is deploying IPTV and Value Added Service in India and Ghana in association with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) & Vodafone Ghana respectively.
For More information, please visit www.wicenet.com
About MKCL:
MKCL is a high-tech initiative of the Government of Maharashtra to synthesize a new paradigm of education enabled by information technology so as to simultaneously offer low cost, high quality education to masses in a time-targeted manner and with widest accessibility. The Government of Maharashtra, leading Universities and several educational institutions are the initial equity-holders of MKCL.
For More information, please visit www.mkcl.org