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Digital TV Equipment: design, manufacture, marketing and sale of consumer premises equipment, including set-top boxes and integrated TV modules. This segment operates essentially under the Group’s ADB and i-CAN brands.
ADB develops and delivers a diverse range of products to the worldwide digital television industry, supplying digital set-top boxes across all television transmission platforms: cable, IPTV, satellite and terrestrial. Our customers include digital television operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and retail distributors of digital set-top boxes (under the i-CAN brand).
Our products are universally recognised as amongst the industry's most technologically advanced and reliable both for current and future generation broadcast technology. We are an expert in system integration, incorporating the industry's leading middleware, conditional access and hardware technologies and we provide technically superior products, service and support, in as short a lead time as possible.
ADB is the partner of choice for operators looking to optimise profitability from their commercial digital television service. Our multi-platform experience in supplying award winning hardware and software solutions ensures the continuous delivery of innovative, revenue-generating products. Our unique end-to-end knowledge of set-top box technology, coupled with an intimate understanding of the digital television business, ensures that we keep our customers ahead of their competition. Whatever your unique requirements ADB is dedicated to enhancing subscriber revenues through a proactive and responsive team who share the same vision - to ensure that your pay TV business is as profitable as it can be.
With over 13 million products sold worldwide, our experience and proven ability to develop and deliver products ahead of the competition have confirmed ADB as one of the most advanced and trustworthy partners of choice for new technology.
Whatever the technology platform, ADB maintains its position in not just leading the industry but defining it.
Vidiom Systems (www.vidiom.com)
Vidiom Systems, Inc. is an established leader in providing innovative iTV solutions. Our expertise includes software design and engineering, network migration, integration and deployment, application development, 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 and testing tools. Founded in 1996, Vidiom Systems is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, and has additional engineering offices in Portland, Oregon, Des Moines, Iowa and Poland.
IPTV
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Terrestrial
Terrestrial technology utilises airwaves to transmit and receive digital data using radio signals. The signals are transmitted from a central antenna and received on smaller antennae located on consumers’ homes where the signal is revived and decoded by a set-top box. Terrestrial distribution is limited to one-way transmission in the consumer space, though the operators often use the incumbent telecommunications network to provide two-way, interactive services.
ADB's award-winning range of digital terrestrial products combine advanced, yet cost-effective technology, with ‘plug and play' installation to ensure optimisation for retail distribution. ADB provides products that are supplied under its own iCAN™ brand or through the high profile brands of various OEM partners.
Satellite
Satellite technology uses orbital satellites to receive and ‘beam’ digital data to geographical footprints. Signals are transmitted from an uplink station to the satellite where they are then broadcast to consumers who receive the signal on a dish antennae - the signals are then received and decoded via a set-top box. Satellite is a powerful way of reaching consumers in geographically dispersed and topographically challenged areas where there is no need to run a physical wire, however, the technology is only economically viable in the mass market for transmitting signals - operators often use the telecommunications network to provide two-way interactive services.
ADB provides a full range of satellite products from entry-level set-top boxes through to state-of-the-art, high definition digital video recorders. All products have a flexible choice of return path depending on network requirements and our advanced set-top boxes have the additional ability to access broadband services such as video-on- demand.
Cable
Cable technology employs a physical ‘cable’ connection between the source of television data - known as the head-end - and the home. The transmission method is particularly effective in densely populated areas with constant topography and offers the benefit of high-bandwidth two-way communications. As with all digital television reception, consumers require a set-top box to receive and decode television services and the presence of a cable-modem allows consumers to receive high-bandwidth services such as video-on-demand.
ADB provides a complete portfolio of cable products for operators' specific network requirements. All products feature a flexible choice of return path such as V.92 modem for low-level two-way activity, or either an Ethernet interface or fully integrated DOCSIS® modem for high-speed, two-way communications.
