Mirifice, Amino and Comstar partner up to improve IPTV broadcast Quality of Service
March 14, 2008 – Mirifice, a UK provider of real time service monitoring, has signed an agreement, under involvment from Amino, with Russian broadband and IPTV operator Comstar to deliver the Mirifice MiriMON product on to the population of Comstar boxes.
Paul Tinkler, Chief Executive of Mirifice, one of the founding Directors of the company, said about the relationship “Partnering with Amino and subsequently Amino recommending us to Comstar demonstrates the trust we have between us, and also the confidence that Amino has in MiriMON by recommending us to a key customer of theirs.”Victor Belov, CTO of Comstar Direct, says “The start of the implementation is a very exciting time for us. We are initially starting with a base of 100,000 IPTV Comstar customers, but we see that number increasing rapidly. To date, we are very pleased with the features of MiriMON.”
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Mirifice : www.Mirifice.com
invalid-fileMirifice Ltd was founded by Paul Tinkler, Alex Dick and Niall Buckingham in 2004, with the aim of providing innovative solutions for the broadcast industry. The company was originally set up in the University of Bath’s Innovation Centre, part of the SETsquared Partnership. David Richards, formerly of Sun Microsystems, was selected by Mirifice as a business mentor, and has subsequently joined the company as a non-executive director.
In 2006 the company was starting to outgrow the incubator facilities provided by the SETsquared Partnership and moved to its own premises in central Bath. Mirifice has experienced strong growth in both its consultancy services business and its products business.
Our success has been based on bringing together a team of broadcast and telecoms experts, with strong relationships in the industry. This team has enabled Mirifice to win major projects with the most prestigious companies in the sector. Delivering excellent solutions, on time and to budget, has ensured repeat business and built Mirifice an enviable reputation.
Mirifice continues to grow through a policy of recruiting existing industry experts and by hiring the strongest graduates, who rapidly gain experience, skills and confidence working alongside more experience staff.
In early 2007 Mirifice secured funding from the South West Ventures Fund, managed by YFM Group. This funding allows the Mirimon monitoring solution to be deployed to a wider customer base and the rapid development of a channel sales model.
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Russian IPTV provider Comstar launches HDTV service
As expected, Russia is getting an influx of HDTV, now that Comstar-Direct has soft launched its high definition service. Featuring the Discovery HD, MelodyZen, Luxe TV and Voom HD channels, plus 10 HD movies via VOD. The IPTV service runs over ADSL2+ modems and HDTV decoders Comstar plans to roll out over the next two years as part of its modernization project. The EngadgetHD Russia readership will hopefully be part of the 80% of Comstar subscribers expected to have HDTV access -- and some additional channels -- by the end of 2009.