Tel Aviv, Israel and Maarsen, the Netherlands — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software and Araneo Ltd. today announced a joint technology collaboration for the digital television market.

Araneo's IP TV Platform, developed on the MontaVista Linux OS and development platform and using IBM's STBxxxx integrated controllers, receives MPEG video streams that are delivered over DVB (Digital Video Broadcast) or IP, and played directly on TVs. The platform provides a powerful PowerPC405 core, high-density memories, and a 100 Mbit Ethernet interface, along with hardware decoding of video and audio streams including lip synchronization.

Araneo is pushing the envelope of digital television development with plans that include set-top box modules within a standard television set, and provisioning of IP streaming enabled by MontaVista Linux. Araneo set out with the goal of building customized IP TV solutions in a very short period of time. The company quickly realized that in order to meet that goal, it needed to use MontaVista Linux, a leading Linux-based systems software platform. MontaVista Software also provided and supported Araneo in implementing Java on its platform.

 
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