LONDON -- Espial® IPTV (www.espial.com), a leading provider of IPTV middleware and applications, has achieved an important company milestone by surpassing one million subscriber unit shipments for its Evo® family of IPTV products. This milestone, which re-enforces the company’s leadership in the IPTV market, was achieved during a break-out year for Espial in 2006, which saw the company ship over 750,000 Evo subscriber licenses to operator customers and partners around the globe.

Espial's flagship Evo® IPTV Service Platform product family, which includes Evo Client middleware, various data-driven applications including Evo EPG, Evo VOD, Evo DVR, Evo Browser and Evo BML, the carrier-grade Evo Server, and the open Evo Future-Proof FrameworkTM, has enjoyed widespread acceptance as a more open, modular, scalable and faster alternative to the first-generation and more monolithic solutions on the market.

Espial’s IPTV deployments build on the company’s expertise in the hospitality and interactive video markets, where the company has another two million units in use by customers such as LodgeNet and OnCommand, and global automotive and consumer electronics manufacturers. Over the years, Espial has become a trusted partner for understanding embedded devices, interactive applications, user interfaces and EPGs, open ecosystems, and various other video technologies that constitute an extremely scalable, carrier-grade IPTV service platform. Espial's Evo has also been ported to over twenty different set-top box platforms, making it one of the most ported and flexible middleware solutions available today.

"We are very proud of the one million IPTV subscriber milestone for our Evo® IPTV middleware and applications. This truly demonstrates Espial’s leadership in the IPTV market and is a testament to the scalable technologies and ease of integration of Espial’s modular IPTV solutions," said Jaison Dolvane, Espial’s Founder, President and CEO. "Working together with our ecosystem and channel partners, we have created integrated carrier-grade IPTV solutions to help our customers worldwide successfully deploy differentiated video & converged services to their subscribers."

Espial Group Inc.