Farncombe Consulting Group acquires Mirifice Professional Services business
26 July 2010
Farncombe Consulting Group, the privately-owned European TV
services consultancy, has acquired Mirifice Ltd’s Professional
Services business.
Mirifice sold its Professional Services business to focus on developing and marketing its successful products, which include the MiriATE test automation system and the MiriMON set-top box monitoring solution. Farncombe will work closely with Mirifice, as a partner of choice, offering solutions based on these products.
The full press release can be found
here.
Telenor selects Mirifice MiriATE for Automated Test
28 June 2010
Mirifice announces that European telecommunications and internet service provider, Telenor Broadcast Holding AS, has chosen Mirifice’s MiriATE system to automate the testing of digital television set top boxes. Automating testing will improve the quality of the STBs, resulting in greater customer satisfaction and lower costs.
The full press release can be found
here.
MiriATE® 3.1 Released
26 February 2010
The Mirifice team are pleased to release version 3.1 of our MiriATE Test Automation system. The existing systems deployed with our customers will be upgraded over the next couple of weeks.
Version 3.1 of MiriATE now provides:
• Set-top box power control (hardware required)
• Audio support
• Set-top box video output interface selection (hardware required)
• Out-of-the-box support for most fonts in OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
• Improved reliability of OCR with small characters or poor background contrast
• Capability to specify and recognise an acceptably close OCR string match
• Support for IR keyboard input testing
• New SOAP interface to allow an external system to invoke tests
• Elegant method of moving test scripts between systems
• Usability improvements for scripting and running tests
• Improved system administration tools
More information on MiriATE is available
here.
COMSTAR puts MiriATE® to the test
12 November 2009
Russia’s largest broadband Internet provider Comstar–UTS has chosen MiriATE, the industry-leading set-top box testing system
from Mirifice, for all its future IPTV service and set-top box deployments.
MiriATE is an automated testing system, enabling Comstar to achieve far
superior results in the reliability and robustness of both its IPTV services and
set-top boxes.
The full press release can be found
here.
Mirifice targets Eastern Europe
15 October 2009
Mirifice, the set-top box Quality of Experience specialists,
will be demonstrating their innovative set-top box monitoring technology at the
IPTV World Forum Eastern Europe, in Prague from 21-22 October 2009.
www.iptv-easterneurope.com
The full press release can be found
here.
Miniweb to test hybrid DVB / IP STB solutions with MiriATE®
09 September 2009
Miniweb, the Interactive Service Provider that is enabling
internet video, interactivity and relevant, web-style advertising on TV has purchased
the MiriATE test automation system to scale the in-house testing capability for it’s Miniweb Client software and customer STB integrations.
The full press release can be found
here.
DTG and Mirifice announce strategic automation partnership
25 August 2009
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital TV in the UK, has announced a strategic partnership with Mirifice, the leading innovator in test and monitoring systems for broadcast, to introduce automation to the DTG’s digital
television test and conformance regimes.
DTG Testing: the DTG’s Test Centre will be introducing Mirifice’s MiriATE® automation system into its testing processes from September to improve the reliability and repeatability of tests and to greatly increase the throughput of the Test Centre.
The full press release can be found
here.
TV Genius Partners With Mirifice To Deliver Remote Record
18 August 2009
TV Genius, the TV and video search specialist, has announced a formal
partnership with broadcast technology company Mirifice. The agreement will
enable TV Genius and Mirifice to offer a single vendor solution for remote record
from set-top box software, electronic programme guide and search
platform to deliver a full remote record solution. The service will enable users to programme their set-top boxes from any location via the web or their mobile phone: they will be able to record programmes and set reminders using a simple interface.
The full press release can be found
here.
Mirifice exhibiting at IBC 2009
14 August 2009
Mirifice will be demonstrating its MiriMON® monitoring product for next generation network services and its
MiriATE® automated device testing product at IBC 2009.
MiriMON provides next generation network and service providers with the ability to measure the customer experience they provide.
MiriATE improves the quality of consumer devices while reducing the cost of testing and time-to-market.
Mirifice will be exhibiting at Stand 2.C21. For more information about IBC2009
click here.
Mirifice partners with SmartLabs
24 April 2009
Mirifice Ltd and Smartlabs LLC announce a partnership to bring the MiriMON advanced customer QoE monitoring solution to the SmartTUBE service delivery platform (SDP).
SmartTUBE is a converged service delivery platform for interactive
television over fixed and wireless networks.
The full press release can be found
here.
MiriATE® installed at AUSTAR
20 April 2009
AUSTAR, the leading subscription television provider in regional and rural Australia, has installed and commissioned the MiriATE® testing solution from Mirifice Ltd, making a commitment to ensuring the quality and reliability of the
set-top boxes deployed to their customers.
The full press release can be found
here.
Solekai to demonstrate MiriATE® at NAB
17 April 2009
Solekai Systems Corporation (www.solekai.com), specialists in digital video product
design, quality assurance and testing will demonstrate MiriATE®, at the NAB Show, Las Vegas Convention Centre, 20 to 23 April 2009.
To arrange a demonstration, please contacting Dan Sweeney, VP Sales at Solekai: dsweeney@solekai.com.
Amino to show MiriMON® at NAB 2009
15 April 2009
Amino will demonstrate MiriMON®, the leading consumer device monitoring and service assurance system, at the NAB Show on 20 to 23 April 2009 (www.nabshow.com).
Please visit Amino at booth #2054 in Central Hall 2, Las Vegas Convention Centre.
Solekai to resell MiriATE® in the Americas
26 March 2009
Solekai Systems Corporation, specialists in digital video product
design, quality assurance and testing will resell MiriATE®, the leading automated testing system for STBs.
The full press release can be found
here.
Amino Communications buys MiriATE® Set-Top Box test system
23 March 2009
Amino Communications, the leading supplier of IPTV Set-Top
Boxes (STBs), has purchased MiriATE®, the leading automated testing system for STBs.
The full press release can be found
here.
Mirifice exhibiting at IPTV World Forum 2009
15 March 2009
Mirifice will be demonstrating its MiriMON® monitoring product and its MiriATE® automated STB testing product.
Mirifice will be exhibiting at Stand 340. To register for the exhibition
click here.
Mirifice in IPTV panel at CeBIT
09 March 2009
Mirfice participated in the Advanced Interactive Multimedia Services over Broadband and IPTV panel session held at the California Pavilion at CeBIT 2009.
The panel consisted of (left to right) Jimmy Schaeffler, Chairman of The Carmel Group, Noel Matthews, VP Business Development at Tandberg Television and Dr Andrew Scott, Director, Product Marketing at Mirifice.