MEDIA RELEASE PR35294
Keisense and DiviNet Partner to Jointly Deliver Interactive TV Services
HARTFORD, Conn. and PUNE, July 6 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
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 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
For more information about DiviNet products, please visit
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
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
SOURCE: Keisense
CONTACT: Greg Sigel
gsigel@keisense.com
+1-415-464-1802
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