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25 March 2009 - Geneva, Switzerland: Advanced Digital Broadcast
(www.adbglobal.com), a leading supplier of technology to the global
digital television industry, announced today that it has shipped over
1.5 million IPTV set-top boxes, making ADB one of the top IPTV
suppliers in the world.
ADB will demonstrate at the IPTV World Forum (Stand 190) its latest
range of Advanced Video Coding and High Definition (HD) set-top
boxes, providing a complete product portfolio for IPTV operators. The
company will also present a number of solutions designed to optimise
new revenue streams.
"We are proud to present such a range of award winning solutions,
which complement and build on our family of high-definition digital
TV products." said François Pogodalla, CEO of ADB. "Our goal is to
deliver to our customers advanced technology compatible with scalable
deployment requirements. This requires the ability to meet the
highest level of performance and quality standards over a
comprehensive line of products."
ADB has established itself as the leading supplier of hybrid IPTV
set-top boxes (STBs) in Europe, and a valued partner for systems
integrators and technology providers worldwide. In recognition of
this expertise, the digital television industry has given the company
a number of awards including the IPTV World Series Award in both 2007
and 2008. ADB's IPTV digital video recorder (DVR), the ADB-5810TWX,
has won "The Best Customer Premises Technology" award at the Cable &
Satellite International Product of the Year Awards held at the most
recent IBC exhibition.
Mr. Francois Pogodalla added: "Our customers are operating in an
innovative, fast-moving and competitive market. We believe that our
knowledge and expertise of the industry, combined with our
award-winning technology, allows us to offer our customers solutions
that are well adapted to meet their growth and development
requirements".
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About ADB
Advanced Digital Broadcast (www.adbglobal.com) is a leader in the
design, development and supply of high-quality products to the
world-wide digital television market. The Company has deployed over
12 million set-top boxes, across high-volume markets, incorporating
the industry's pioneering middleware, conditional access and hardware
technologies.
ADB has established itself as a trusted partner to television
operators supporting them to launch new services using
state-of-the-art technology. Through its unique end-to-end
understanding of set-top box software, ADB is able to design and
supply highly efficient and optimized hardware platforms ahead of the
competition.
Approximately 70% of ADB's workforce is dedicated to engineering;
developing products across all the digital television technology
platforms including cable, Internet Protocol (IP), satellite and
terrestrial. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with
its main Research and Development facility in Zielona Gora, Poland
and Operations division in Taipei, Taiwan. ADB has local
representation in Australia, Italy, Singapore, Spain, the Ukraine,
the United States and the United Kingdom.
ADB is a member of ADB Group; ADB Group (www.adbholdings.com) is
publicly listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX:ADBN).
ADB. Defining Digital.
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ADB Holdings S.A.
Avenue de Tournay 7 Chambesy Switzerland
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CH0021194664; Index: SPI, SPIEX, SSCI;
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