Amino, Espial Team Up

OTTAWA -- Espial®, a leading provider of client IPTV middleware and applications, and Amino, leading IPTV software and consumer premises equipment provider, today announced that they have partnered to provide innovative IPTV set-top box technology for Allin Interactive. This combined IPTV solution includes Espial Evo running on top of the underlying Amino 's IntAct IPTV software platform to provide a seamless operating system and middleware environment enabling a rich and highly responsive user experience.

Allin Interactive, a leader in application development and systems integration services for interactive media, has been developing ITV systems in a variety of industries for over 10 years for customers such as Carnival Cruise Line, Celebrity Cruises, Costa Crociere, the Mayo Clinic and Royal Caribbean International. Allin will utilize the set top box technology from Amino and Espial in its second generation digital ITV platform. Allin will introduce this technology to the market at a March industry tradeshow, SeaTrade.

With this unique combination of software from Espial and Amino, along with the Amino AmiNET110H set-top box, Allin can develop customized ITV solutions that can be easily developed and rapidly deployed. In 2005, more than 340-million dollars in revenue were transacted over Allin ITV Systems. To ensure continued success for Allin, Amino and Espial products can help to decrease time-to-market costs with low-cost set-top boxes with extremely responsive, rich user interfaces.

"This new set-top box technology from Espial and Amino is a great contributor to the improvements we will introduce with our second generation digital ITV platform" said Allin Interactive Managing Director Doug Tempero. "The Espial/Amino technology provides a performance and price mixture that we believe is unmatched in the industry. This has allowed us to develop innovative applications that will contribute to the exceptional viewer experience users of our second generation digital platform will realize, while also reducing our implementation time and offering the flexibility and cost effectiveness we need."

Espial Group Inc.

Amino Communications Ltd.