Minerva 10 combines cloud services, distributed processing and innovative client applications for both IP set-top boxes and IP/QAM gateways to deliver advanced personalization, ease of content discovery and responsive navigation, while preserving investment in legacy cable infrastructure

May 5, 2015, Chicago, USA – INTX 2015 — Minerva Networks, a leading provider of software solutions for the delivery of entertainment services, will demonstrate several unique features of its Minerva 10 platform, aimed at cable operators, at the INTX 2015 show. The new Minerva platform, featuring a highly personalized user experience powered by a patent pending distributed processing architecture and a cloud-based Back Office, offers several advanced capabilities in the areas of content discovery, user interface responsiveness, breadth of device support and analytics.

• Ease of Content Discovery: The Minerva 10 Landing Page provides subscribers with personalized recommendations for programming available across Live, VOD, Catch Up and DVR content sources. Users can also apply filters to narrow down large VOD libraries, significantly improving content discovery. The Landing Page, in combination with the Minerva 10 Filter engine, enables a significant reduction in time spent by subscribers searching for relevant content while enhancing overall content discovery.

• Responsive User Experience: The Minerva 10 platform’s distributed architecture not only caches metadata through its Edge component, accelerating their delivery to the client application, but it also off-loads computationally intensive functionality from the client, insuring a responsive user experience. This unique feature of the Minerva platform is very beneficial in large cable deployments spanning multiple plants and geographies. Extensive performance benchmarking has demonstrated that Minerva’s Edge nodes typically improve response times by more than 50%.

• Broad Device Support: By off-loading functionality typically performed by the client application to the Edge node, Minerva 10 reduces the complexity and performance requirements of client devices. The Minerva platform supports a broad range of native and HTML-5 client applications for iOS and Android mobile devices, popular streaming products like Roku and Amazon Fire TV, IP set-top boxes and hybrid IP/QAM gateways.

• Real-time Analytics and Reporting: The new Minerva platform features robust cloud-based Back Office services including real-time analytics. Minerva 10 makes it easy for operators to tailor offers to specific subscriber segments, by region, account or device type.

“Minerva 10’s unique feature set, including support for standard IP set-top boxes, hybrid IP/QAM gateways and leading consumer streaming devices, will allow cable operators to rapidly and cost-effectively launch a broad range of advanced services”, said Eric Freund, Minerva’s Vice President of Product Marketing. “Our new solution paves the way towards an all IP delivery model and provides cable operators with a great deal of flexibility vis-a-vis deployment and monetization strategies.”

Minerva 10’s distributed architecture enables flexible deployment models. The Back Office can be installed virtually anywhere, including data centers and private or public cloud environments, without compromising service responsiveness. The Minerva platform also enables operators to collect more data and gain deeper insights on their subscribers to better segment their customer base and optimize their offerings.

Minerva will be demonstrating the Minerva 10 platform, including its hybrid IP/QAM gateway and streaming media player clients, at INTX 2015 in Chicago, booth #1119.

ABOUT MINERVA NETWORKS

Minerva is a leading provider of software platforms for connected entertainment. By supporting a best of breed open ecosystem, the Minerva platform has been deployed by over 290 operators worldwide to offer enhanced next-generation TV entertainment services.

For more information, please visit www.minervanetworks.com

Contact:

Bina Mirchandani
bmirchandani@minervanetworks.com
(408) 240-1204

Minerva’s Open Web Services API and Oregan’s STB Client architecture enable operators to offer next generation services while preserving existing investment in legacy set-top boxes

April 29, 2015, London, UK – TV Connect — Minerva Networks, a leading provider of software solutions for the delivery of entertainment services, will demonstrate integration with Oregan Network’s set-top box client, showcasing the flexibility of the Minerva 10 platform along with the unique capabilities Oregan has developed to deliver an exceptional user experience across a broad range of set-top box (STB) models currently deployed by operators.

Integration was done through Minerva’s open web services API framework that enables the delivery of program metadata and other subscriber information in a format supported by Oregan’s STB client. The web services are accelerated via Minerva’s Edge node, which supports a consistent and responsive user experience while dramatically reducing bandwidth and latency requirements between the clients and Minerva’s Back Office.

“More than ever, operators are requiring flexible service management platforms that can enable the delivery of compelling services while preserving past investments in set-top boxes.” said Jean-Georges Fritsch, Minerva’s CTO. “The integration we are demonstrating at TV Connect with Oregan’s STB Client showcases the benefits and flexibility of our Minerva 10 platform.”

Oregan’s embedded STB client is a telco grade solution for hybrid broadcast and broadband video over IP services that can be deployed across a wide range of set-top boxes – including those that operators may have deployed in the past with other client middleware or UI’s.

“Our proven set-top box technology offers operators a cost effective means to enhance the functionality and user experience of currently deployed CPE products,” said Mark Perry, Oregan’s CEO. “In combination with Minerva’s flexible and powerful Service Management Platform, we are able to significantly reduce the cost, risk and complexity for operators transitioning to next generation services, whilst preserving their investment in legacy STBs.”

Minerva will be demonstrating the Minerva 10 platform at TV Connect London stand #59. Minerva 10 has been shortlisted for the TV Connect 2015 Awards for Best Service Delivery Platform for IPTV & OTT TV.

ABOUT MINERVA NETWORKS

Minerva is a leading provider of software platforms for connected entertainment. By supporting a best of breed open ecosystem, the Minerva platform has been deployed by over 290 operators worldwide to offer enhanced next-generation TV entertainment services.

For more information, please visit www.minervanetworks.com

ABOUT OREGAN NETWORKS

Oregan’s offering encapsulates best of breed processes and assets that are used for the deployment and management of open standards-based middleware by network carriers and content service providers globally. The company provides systems design and engineering services, addressing complexities associated with the quality-critical components of digital media distribution: client security, quality of service and user experience – throughout the product lifecycle. During the 18 years of continuous innovation – in step with the evolution of television, the London-based company has powered over 6 million set top boxes and gaming consoles deployed by leading telecoms operators and CE brands, including British Telecom, Telefonica, CAT Telecom, NTT, Sony, Philips and Sharp.

Read more on www.oregan.net.

Contact:

Bina Mirchandani
bmirchandani@minervanetworks.com
(408) 240-1204

Minerva 10 combines cloud services, distributed processing and innovative client applications to deliver advanced personalization, ease of content discovery and responsive navigation

April 27, 2015, London, UK – TV Connect  — Minerva Networks, a leading provider of software solutions for the delivery of entertainment services, will demonstrate several unique breakthroughs of its Minerva 10 platform at the upcoming 2015 TV Connect show. The new Minerva platform, featuring broad device support powered by its patent pending distributed processing architecture and cloud-based Back Office, offers several advanced capabilities in the areas of content discovery, user interface responsiveness and analytics.

• Ease of Content Discovery: The Minerva 10 Landing Page provides subscribers with personalized recommendations for programming available across Live, VOD, Catch Up and DVR content sources. Users can also apply filters to narrow down large VOD libraries, significantly improving content discovery. The Landing Page, in combination with the Minerva 10 Filter engine, enables a significant reduction in time spent by subscribers searching for relevant content while enhancing overall content discovery.

• Responsive User Experience: The Minerva 10 platform’s distributed architecture not only caches metadata through its Edge component, accelerating their delivery to the client application, but it also off-loads computationally intensive functionality from the client, insuring a responsive user experience. Extensive performance benchmarking has demonstrated that Minerva’s Edge nodes typically improve response times by more than 50%.

• Real-time Analytics and Reporting: The new Minerva platform features robust cloud-based Back Office services including real-time analytics. Minerva 10 makes it easy for operators to tailor offers to specific subscriber segments, by region, account or device type.

“Legacy solutions are no longer capable of supporting the rate of innovation required to remain competitive in the pay TV arena,” said Mauro Bonomi, Minerva’s CEO. “The unique Minerva 10 capabilities we are demonstrating here at TV Connect enable operators to offer highly targeted and personalized television services that will delight the most demanding subscribers.”

Minerva 10’s distributed architecture enables flexible deployment models. The Back Office can be installed virtually anywhere, including data centers and private or public cloud environments, without compromising service responsiveness. The Minerva platform also enables operators to collect more data and gain deeper insights on their subscribers to better segment their customer base and optimize their offerings.

Minerva will be demonstrating the Minerva 10 platform, including both its set-top box and streaming media player clients at TV Connect London stand #59. The new platform has been shortlisted for the TV Connect Awards for Best Service Delivery Platform for IPTV & OTT TV.

ABOUT MINERVA NETWORKS

Minerva is a leading provider of software platforms for connected entertainment. By supporting a best of breed open ecosystem, the Minerva platform has been deployed by over 290 operators worldwide to offer enhanced next-generation TV entertainment services.

For more information, please visit www.minervanetworks.com

Contact:

Bina Mirchandani
bmirchandani@minervanetworks.com
(408) 240-1204

Solution combines robust management tools, third-party transcoder and origin server integration, and innovative client applications for a range of consumer electronics devices. Minerva’s turnkey offering enables operators to deliver compelling pay television services to connected devices including Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple and Android-based tablets and smartphones

April 13, 2015, Las Vegas, NV – NAB — Minerva Networks, a leading provider of software platforms for connected entertainment, unveiled a complete solution for the delivery of over-the-top pay television services. The turnkey solution features a robust service management back-office, certified third-party adaptive bit rate transcoders and origin servers, and a range of client applications for consumer devices including Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple and Android-based tablets and smartphones. Powered by Minerva’s connected entertainment platform, the new solution enables operators to offer streamlined television services including Linear TV, Restart TV and Catch-up TV to all of their broadband subscribers. By supporting consumer electronics devices like Roku and Amazon Fire TV, service providers can eliminate expenditures associated with set-top boxes and truck-rolls to deliver a cost effective television experience in competition with emerging OTT entrants.

“Legacy solutions are no longer capable of supporting the rate of innovation required to remain competitive and meet the needs of customer segments interested in higher-value TV bundles. Service providers need new platforms that allow them to offer differentiating services while minimizing capital investments and operational complexity,” said Eric Freund, Minerva’s Vice President of Product Marketing. “With our new solution, operators will be able to broaden the appeal and extend the reach of their Pay TV services.”

With Minerva’s solutions service providers can now deploy a range of Pay TV packages; from feature rich, STB-based services like whole home DVR, personalized VOD, and network-based time-shifting, to entry-level linear TV services to consumer electronics devices – all through a single back-office.

“As overall viewership continues to shift away from traditional pay TV platforms towards open, OTT platforms like Roku, it is critical for existing pay TV operators to embrace these new platforms in order to retain and grow subscribers,” said Colin Dixon, Chief Analyst and Founder of nScreenMedia. “Platforms like Minerva’s that support delivery of services across a range of consumer electronics devices provide the tools that operators will need to remain competitive.”

Minerva will be demonstrating the new OTT Pay TV solution at its booth (#SU10413) at the NAB show.

ABOUT MINERVA NETWORKS

Minerva is a leading provider of software platforms for connected entertainment. By supporting a best of breed open ecosystem, the Minerva platform has been deployed by over 290 operators worldwide to offer enhanced next-generation TV entertainment services.

For more information, please visit www.minervanetworks.com

Contact:

Bina Mirchandani
bmirchandani@minervanetworks.com
(408) 240-1204