Espial® (TSX:ESP) has announced the newest release of the Evo TV Service Platform. Espial IPTV middleware is designed to serve millions of subscribers with a minimal capex investment, to provide a highly responsive user experience and to offer a powerful service creation environment. Field proven, highly scalable, based on open standards and supporting the interactive IP applications demanded by consumers. The newest release of Evo TV Service Platform extends these capabilities with several major new features for telco and cable operators including:

• 3-screen support for new video-on-demand and subscription management services from PCs and mobile phones.
• Personalized UI advertising allows operators to build targeted advertising campaigns including static, clickable and video advertisements to drive new revenues and increase utilization of their value-added services.
• Time-Shift-TV services (TSTV) allow subscribers to take advantage of network-based Start-Over TV (Replay TV), Catch-up TV (Delayed or Look-back TV) and Pause Live TV.
• Arabic language and right-to-left character support.
• Professional-grade developer tools for rapid, easy and standards-based service creation using a PC-based integrated development and preview environment.
• Operational enhancements to significantly reduce operational costs.  Includes seamless upgrades, new CPE Management features, set-top box self registration and security enhancements reflecting an independent security audit.

Streambox, Inc. has been awarded a Schedule 70 contract by the General Services Administration (GSA), the procurement arm of the U.S. government. The GSA contract gives government and military agencies easy access to the full line of Streambox® systems for easy and cost-effective contribution and distribution of video over IP networks, based on the award-winning ACT-L3™ codec.

"The new GSA Schedule 70 contract is an important validation of our technology in the federal marketplace, and reflects growing momentum for our solutions among government and defense organizations. Our high-quality video transport solutions offer a powerful and cost-effective alternative to videotape, stills, or audio communications for end-to-end intelligence gathering and information sharing," said Mark Marchetti, Streambox's director of sales, government and military. "Whether their needs include getting live video reports from disaster areas, enhancing border control and protection, or deploying easy-to-use video software and hardware technology to ground forces in combat theaters around the world, our federal customers have embraced Streambox's unique combination of performance, reliability, and quality over low-data-rate IP networks."

Streambox provides a complete platform for IP-based, end-to-end video contribution and distribution, including SD and HD software and hardware for video compression, transmission, management, and playout. Streambox solutions are based on the industry-leading ACT-L3™ codec, which provides unrivaled performance, reliability, and quality over low-data-rate IP networks for fast transmission and playout of video streams in HD and SD.