Ateme Enables Free To Expand IPTV Bandwidth

"Ateme, has made a major video encoder sale to leading French telco Free, a subsidiary of the Iliad Group

Free is the number one alternative ADSL operator in France with more than 2,498,000 subscribes as of March 31, 2007.

Free is one of the world leaders in IPTV deployments and is capable of leveraging Ateme compression technology throughout its infrastructure. Using the new Kyrion MPEG-4 AVC SD video encoder from Ateme, 18 standard definition television channels will go live at the unprecedented bit rate of 1.7 Mbps.

With such a significant bandwidth saving, Free will be able to sign up new subscribers who are currently unable to receive IPTV due to their distance from the DSLAM."

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