Zappware launches Browser Platform during IBC 2004
01/09/2004

Zappware is pleased to announce the release of its icTV Gateway browser platform during IBC 2004.

Using icTV Gateway, client applications can be developed in an open, standards-based page description language which is easy to use and highly accessible to content creators.

The Gateway solution by Zappware is a client-server solution consisting of a mini-browser in the set-top box combined with a scalable server infrastructure in the head-end. The mini-browser allows for navigating and rendering content with minimal consumption of set-top box resources. The server infrastructure takes care of translating high-level application descriptions into highly-efficient platform code. Overall, icTV Gateway seriously lowers the threshold for iDTV application development, and allows content creators to focus on the creative and conceptual aspects of their task.

icTV Gateway also consists of a flexible and optimized system for linking the iDTV application with existing database back-ends, allowing a quick migration of existing applications to an iDTV platform.

Zappware presents at IBC2004 its full range of solutions for Interactive Television:

• The iDTV applications that were launched by our customers recently: EPG, TV-Mail, TV-Chat, Interactive Quiz, Multistream, Poll & Vote, and a suite of Interactive TV Games.
• Our ezTV Software Formats : a suite of highly customizable interactive applications for quiz, poll/vote, synopsis etc.
• Our broad range of management products : icTV Gateway, icTV Play-out manager, and icTV Return Path Manager.